AFRICAN JUNGLE BUILT IN STUDIO FOR TALKIE DRAMA
One of the greatest advantages of the talking picture over the legitimate stage is the possibility of constructing settings which would be much beyond the limits of the largest theatre. A technically correct reproduction of an African jungle, the size of a city park, was constructed at the Paramount studios for the all-talking production, “The Woman Who Needed Killing,” in which the principal parts are played by Olga Baclanova, Clive Brook and Neil Hamilton. The jungle covered two combined stages. It contained a river 30ft wide and 200 ft. long. Over 100 trees of all sizes, as well as lacy ferns, wild grass, overhanging moss, wild orchids and lilies, helped to form one of the most, stage “sets” ever built at the Paramount studios.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 678, 1 June 1929, Page 9 (Supplement)
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132AFRICAN JUNGLE BUILT IN STUDIO FOR TALKIE DRAMA Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 678, 1 June 1929, Page 9 (Supplement)
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