“SOUTHERN SKIES”
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Company, which has been making “Southern Skies” in Tahiti, has returned to San Francisco. The company, which numbered more than sixty people, left Los Angeles at the end of November. In Tahiti a complete studio in minature was erected, where more than 200,000 feet of film was developed and printed. “Southern Skies” deals with the coming of the white man to the Pacific. Monte Blue plays the leading male role with over 1,000 island natives as “supporting artists.” According to officials who viewed the scenes, Flaherty has secured some of the most beautiful shots ever made of the South Seas, end at the same time has made a picture of outstanding merit.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 412, 21 July 1928, Page 15
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116“SOUTHERN SKIES” Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 412, 21 July 1928, Page 15
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