THE HOLLYWOOD WAY.
Exactly 320 "babies" on a Hollywood sound stage equal the 100,000 candles used to light the Grand Stairway and Hall of the Palace at Versailles as they have been reproduced for "Marie Antoinette." co-starring Norma Shearer and Tyrone Power. A "baby" in movie language is a,500-watt lamp. Rarely are more than ten required on the average set. Their use in the past has been restricted for the most part to high-lighting the stars. William Daniels, ace cameraman, was faced with a unique technical lighting problem on the huge palace set which ,was 250 feet long and 125 feet wide. This called for heroic measures. His main source of light, was ten chandeliers each containing 1266 pieces of crystal and holding 1000 candles. But the camera eye, much less analytical than the human eye, requires a great deal more light for photographic purposes. The scene was the arrival of Marie Antoinette (Miss Shearer) at the Court of King Louis XV (John Barrymore) for her marriage to the Dauphin Louis August (Robert Morley). To light the set, the twenty-seven stars and featured players, and 632 extras who apoear in the scene, Daniels used enoueh electricity to supply a city of 50.000 people with light and heat for eight hours.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1938, Page 14
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