MAMMOTH SET
Filled a Paramount Studio “VAGABOND KING” SCENES A setting of such giant dimensions that it had to be divided into sections to enable medium photographic shots to be taken was constructed recently for the filming of a motion picture. The huge set, built to represent a palace garden, provided one of the many backgrounds for “The Vagabond King,” Paramount's ail-colour romance, starring Dennis King. The set was 250 feet long by 75 feet wide and occupied the entire of one of the largest sound stages at the studios. Long shots were made which took in the entire setting and more than 200 persons appeared in these scenes. Closeups and medium shots depicting action with Dennis King, the star, and smaller groups were photographed in sections curtained off from the remainder of tly. set. "The Vagabond /mg,” recently completed, will arrive shortly in New Zealand. Jeanette MacDonald, who supported Maurice Chevalier in “The Love Parade,” plays the feminine lead. Others in the cast are O. P. Heggie, Warner Oland and Lillian Roth.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 956, 26 April 1930, Page 27
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173MAMMOTH SET Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 956, 26 April 1930, Page 27
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