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A studio armory may have up to five thousand weapons, ranging from the most modern weapons of several different present-day armies, through flintlocks down to and including very ancient catapults. Several catapults were built and operated by experts in weapons for the picture Cleopatra, the scene of which was laid in the time of the Caesars.
The professional studio sailor has been briefly mentioned. His duties may vary from the command of windjammers in pictures like Captains Courageous, The Slave Ship, and Captain Blood to the instruction of a child actor in tying different knots.
The wind-machine operator is unique to pictures. In the old days he gloried in noise. For silent pictures it did not matter if the gas engines driving his windmaking propellers made a tremendous clatter. But today he tends noiseless electric motors which drive the propellers with no more noise than a slight whir. The wind stirred up, however, is just as great!
Every studio has its "wild animal" man. His duties may be many or few, depending on the pictures being made with wild beasts. But there are always some animals in the studio zoo, and several studios maintain a large collection which they rent to other plants. A zoo of this sort would have lions — African and mountain — tigers, elephants, deer, antelope, buffalo, giraffes, and zebras as its nucleus.
In studios where films are prepared for foreign sale, keys with special foreign accents have to be placed on typewriters. And because most studio authors arose from newspaper work, and write with the pounding
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