Pirfk snow amazed the eyes of Eskimoe's in the Arctic when Col. W. S. Van Dyke filmed the snow igloo scenes in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer s "Eskffno." Red paint, sprayed from an air maehine, transformed the snow, and the hemispherieal huts built of it into a beautiful rose-coloured hue, overnight, to the astonishment and in some cases lalarm of the native cast. j It was done because sunlight on the , crystalised snow caused "halation,' j or istrong reflections most dangerous , to photography. The pink tint made the work of the cameramen much simpler in the odd light of the northern wastelands.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 448, 4 February 1933, Page 7
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