DETECTING AIRPLANES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 862, 4 January 1930, Page 13

DETECTING AIRPLANES

STUDIO OFFICIAL’S JOB Universal Studios employ an airplane traffic officer. His duty consists in reporting when an airplane Is coming close enough to interfere with the production of talking pictures. The Maddux Air Line recently changed the route of its sightseeing planes so that they fly over Glendale instead of Universal City. Also various air-mail. passenger and other planes flying on schedule, keep Universal posted as to the time of their passing in order to cause as little delay as possible in production. But as was discovered by Hoot Gibson s ’company when at work on exteriors on the lot for “The Long, I.iong Trail" even these precautions do not prevent out-of-door sound pictures being annoyed by aerial interruptions. On account of these disturbances. Director Arthur Rosson appointed a man to signal the cameraman when an airplane is approaching. The sisnai is given by means of a buzzer extending* from the man on a hill back of the camera box and has saved thousands of feet of film that might have been spoiled. , Gustave von Seyffertitz, veteran actor of sinister character roles, has been assigned to the case of Flesh of Eve," starring Nancy Carroll. Seyffertitz will play Jones, one of Conrad s strongest characters.