MECHANICAL HEROES
OBTAIN ACTION “SHOTS” Tvfo cameras and a microphone were recently the heroes of one of the most exciting action scenes ever produced in Hollywood. Although their devotion to duty resulted in their ultimade doom, they photographed and recorded the scene to the last splitsecond. The spectacular action sequence was <or Paramount’s new out-door talkie, ‘"'The Light of Western Stars,” starring Richard Arlen, and featured the stampede of 500 wild horses. Microphones and cameras were concealed all along the path of the proposed stampede. The .horses suddenly got out of control of rh© cowboys and swerved toward a *;lump of trees where a microphone and two cameras were hidden. The cameramen leaped to safety, leaving the equipment to its doom. Inspection immediately afterward revealed that, though the cameras and 4 mike” were smashed, the film was intact, and the thundering hoofs had been photographed and recorded with unbelieving realism.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 968, 10 May 1930, Page 16
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150MECHANICAL HEROES Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 968, 10 May 1930, Page 16
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