“WINGS” BATTLE
AUTOMATIC CAMERAS USED Operated by remote control, six automatic cameras were used to photograph the close-up action of a German air raid on a French village in the filming of one of the thrillingly realistic scenes in Lucien Hubbard’s Paramount production, “'Wings,” which William Wellman directed on location near San Antonia, Texas. Several of these cameras were buried in the ground, with only their lenses protruding. Others were placed in bomb-proof enclosures. All were stationed at points so close to the doomed village that they, too, were in danger of demolition by either misplaced bombs or falling debris. Twelve full service charge 1001 b. bombs were dropped from the air while regulation cameras in bomb-proof shelters as well as in the cockpits and on machine-gun mounts of accompanying planes recorded the scenes, *
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 245, 6 January 1928, Page 15
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134“WINGS” BATTLE Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 245, 6 January 1928, Page 15
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