“THE MAGIC FLAME”
A CALIFORNIAN FILM Director Henry King last week exploded the myth that it never snows in Culver City. For I_o days, he had been engaged in shooting the exteriors of the circus sequence of Ronald Colman. and . Vilraa Banky’s new picture, “The Magic Flame,” for Samuel Goldwyn. The story is a romance of springtime. But one day when King prepared to shoot a big scene, the unexpected happened—it snowed. The “shot” was that of a balloon ascension and parachute jump. More than 1,000 extras were on the set, the cameras were in position and the balloon inflated. At the last minute. King discovered that snow had thickly coated the hill in the background. Snow in the summer time! Something was wrong! An assistant quickly discovered the cause of the phenomenon. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was using the hill as a locale of the “Trail of '9B” and during the night the prop men had “snowed” all over the landscape.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 194, 5 November 1927, Page 16
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