EVERYBODY'S PICTURES.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 12 January 1918, Page 2

EVERYBODY'S PICTURES.

The picture that cost a million dollars to make is due at Everybody's Levin, on Tuesday next, when! there will be a double showing—afternoon at 2.'60 and evening at_B. "Some facts concerning this gigantic production are interesting:— Total number of

persons appearing in the picture: 21,218; Largest number used in a single scene. 19,744; Number of children in the gnome city scenes: 1,200; More than two hundred mermaids ; Three hundred dancing girls and women of the Sultan's hai'em; Number of feet of film taken; 223,000; Number of feet shown in all, 10,000 feet in ten reels: Seven camera men photographed the picture, as many as j four photographing the same sci ene simultaneously from different : angles. A Moorish city built at a cost of £250,000 and destroyed to make one of the "big" scenes" of the picture. An entire Caribbean island and all of its population utilised by William Fox to assist his actor principals Sn the making of the picture. _ Time required to build the tropical city and equip it: three months. Then eight months more of work in making the picture. A special municipality created, and governed by "William Fox for his thous- I ands of employees. Special re- | frigerating and laboratory plants j built and maintained for the de- j velopment of the film. There was no loss of human life in the making of even the most hazardous scenes-To-night Hardeen reappears at Everybody's in his handcuff act (when a loca\ resident has undertaken to secure him with special looks) there is alst to be another Arizona thriller.