IN WATERTIGHT TINS
CAMERA EQUIPMENT IN AFRICA
The cameras, film stock, chemicals and other items of motion picture equipment used by Ernest Schoedsack and Merian Cooper, in ttfe filming of Paramount's ' The Four Feathers,” were carted across Africa on the heads of Black native porters. Evervthing had to be packed m waterproof tins, to prevent any damage , vater when crossing the many streams and rivers in Portuguese East A Cooper and Schoedsack -pent twelve months in various parts° £ „ continent filming real-l rl ?ev lravelled the Faramount epic. of They elled acrosf the Rovuma River to Portuguese EaS The Four Feathers,” which will be released in various s °" SO n l arthe lr Gr^d P o|e ra House, Wellington. Chve Brook and William Powell.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 813, 6 November 1929, Page 17
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123IN WATERTIGHT TINS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 813, 6 November 1929, Page 17
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