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"Going on Location'''
and fifty sacks of plaster, sixty kegs of nails, and fifteen hundred yards of burlap.
Outdoor work develops its own specialists. One cameraman seldom shoots a scene on a studio stage, for his best work consists of filming sunsets, sunrises, and beautiful cloud effects. Another cameraman has become an Akeley expert. The Akeley camera looks like a cheese set on end and can move in any direction with twice the facility of its stage brother. An Akeley expert can follow, in close-up, by means of a long telescopic lens, an airplane in motion or a horse coming down the stretch in the Derby. This expert, too, is almost entirely used for work beyond the studio limits.
In similar manner, picture companies have traveled to every nook and corner of the United States and Canada. For westerns, companies have shot in Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Idaho, and Wyoming. A company went twice to photograph the Dionne quintuplets at Callander, Ontario. The Mardi Gras at New Orleans has been the background for several pictures. One or more picture companies usually arrange to have players at the Kentucky Derby, working that spectacle into some photoplay.
The Army, Navy, and Marine Corps have been cooperative at various times, allowing photographing of their equipment, boats, and buildings when they were for specific stories. Permission to photograph any governmental equipment is only given by special arrangement which can be withdrawn at any time. The Government departments have the right to approve the manner in which the material is to be used in a picture.
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