IN THE MOVIES IT IS NOT ALL DONE WITH MIRRORS
Fog rolls' across the deck of the ocean liner, eddies around companionways billows in little smoke_puffs through the open door of the cabin where Edmund Lowe and Elissa Landi stare at the body of a murdered man.
The ocean fog itself isn’t thick enough, hasn’t sufficiently definite a colour for the motion picture cameras t-o pick it up. “We use Nujol,” says proy man George Elder, spray it With compressed air. But even that thins out too fast so we have to touch it up with burning incense. Yes, even movie fog needs make-up.” XXX This is an incident in filming of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “Mad Holiday.” In (the fight that follows the discovery of the body, Lowe gets <a nasty crack on the head. The suc-
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 455, 12 June 1937, Page 3
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135IN THE MOVIES IT IS NOT ALL DONE WITH MIRRORS Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 455, 12 June 1937, Page 3
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