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

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Talking Pictures Life on camp locations is also keyed to the hours of the sun, but, unless too long drawn out, is welcomed as a change from routine. Knowing that good food and relative comfort are prime requisites if camping workers are to remain happy and efficient, one organization has made a specialty of "movie camps." It can, on a twelvehour notice, fill orders to establish a camp for a thousand men and women a hundred miles out on the desert, or a similar rendezvous on the top of a ten-thousand foot mountain peak. Here they are provided with filet mignons, iced tea, and inner-spring mattresses. Motion picture people were not surprised when this competent company was awarded the immense catering and housing contract for Boulder Dam. Requirements for a location on the Sahara-like sand dunes near Yuma, Arizona, 280 miles from Hollywood, illustrate the general location problems. The picture was The Garden of Allah. The location being relatively small, some fifty tent cabins were built to house two hundred persons. Tents were equipped with hot and cold water, electricity, modern plumbing, and plain furnishings. A recreation hall, which contained a store supplying such personal items as razor blades and tooth paste, and needles and thread, provided a place for social diversion and likewise acted as a theatre where the director and staff could view the scenes photographed the previous day. A warehouse was also required for such construction items as one hundred and twenty-five thousand feet of lumber, thirty-five hundred adobe bricks, two hundred [ 19° ]