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"Going on Location"
pictorial effect desired. In studio vernacular, this is called "going on location."
Locations vary in distance from the studios. From one studio it is a ride of only four blocks to a great producing oil field. But thousands upon thousands of miles were traveled to Africa and the Arctic by those players and technicians who went "on location" to make, respectively, Trader Horn and Eskimo.
The selection of locations is in the hands of an expert, the "location director." In his office one finds several steel files. In these files are about five thousand cards containing data on possible locations, 80 per cent of which are w7ithin two hundred miles of the studios.
The variety of exteriors which are easily reached in Southern California makes it a particularly advantageous place in which to base motion picture studios. It offers within forty miles the Pacific Ocean and the towering Sierra Madre Mountains. Immediately to the east of those mountains one finds the up-torn desolation of Death Valley, the desert sand dunes in the region of Yuma, Arizona, and the fertility of Imperial Valley.
From snowy peaks to a swim in front of a South Sea shack erected at the ocean's edge is a matter of less than three hours' driving time. In between, and just beyond, one finds rolling hills and flat country which may duplicate any geographical section in all the world. Onlv two or three hundred miles to the north and within a small radius there are extraordinary scenic wonders such as glacier-carved Yosemite National Park and the big trees of the Sequoia National Park. A few hundred miles due east is the Grand Canyon.
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