Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them (1937)

"Going on Location'" The popularity of California as a place for the wealthy to retire makes it easy to find lovely homes of every conceivable kind of architecture. Spanish, Italian, Norman, French, British, and American schools are all represented. This versatility in architectural style has been responsible for a unique charity. Years ago, certain women whose houses had been frequently in demand bv motion picture companies conceived the idea of gathering all owners of pictorially attractive houses and gardens adjacent to Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Santa Barbara into what is now called the "Assistance League." The picture companies pay the usual rental for the use of these homes, but the owners give the monev to the League for the support of worthy Los Angeles charities. Camps are not established for locations which can be reached within a two hours, ride. On these, however, adequate comfort and make-up facilities are built and a hot noon meal supplied by a "chuck wagon" service. These chuck wagons, a de luxe version of the kind used for many years to feed cowboys on cattle round-ups, care for as many as one hundred people in hotel style. For large crowds, box lunches, prepared by organizations which do nothing else, are provided. "Day locations" of this sort are not so popular with players and technicians as the more distant ones because of the very long hours they require. Sunshine is precious to cameramen. Players need to arise at five to catch the eight o'clock sun at a location fifty miles distant. They do not leave work until sundown, which in summertime brings them home at 8:00 p. m. or later. [ 189]