The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-08-01
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
SAILS FROM CHICAGO
Movie Reproduction of Great Event
Being Made for School Children

Movie Reproduction of Great Event
Being Made for School Children
Chicago, August 1.-(By Associated
Press).-History was rewritten here
today, shorn of much of its romance
and amplifed by facts, by the Yale
University Press. To do this, medie-
val sailors dressed in gayly colored
tights and jenkins, with huge knives
in their belts clambered through the
rigging of the Santa Maria off Jack
son Park and Christopher Columbus
leaned over the rail, crucifix in hand
and gazed at the receding shores.
Meanwhile two camera men kept
grinding away.
All this was done that the popular
idea of history might be revised and
the school children of America might
have accurate information, uncontam-
mated by the legends and myths which
have grown around the discovery of
America during the last 400 years, it
was stated.
The Yale University Press is MAX
ing series of historical pictures for
school use which the history depart
ment of the college insists will be as
make them. The exterior and voyage
views are being made in Chicago, be-
cause in the lagoon at jackson Park,
held fast by Columbus own anchor,
lies an exact reproduction of the great
navigator's flag ship. the Santa Maria
The Spanish government which built
the boat for the Chicago Worlds Fair,
says it is correct in every detail
The historic anchor was drawn up
today and the Santa Maria was towed
into Lake Michigan just opposite the
point where the cross of La Rabida, a
ireplica of the convent from which the
marina took to the sea, points sky
ward. Here accuracy comes into play
No "shots" except silhouettes are be-
ing made of the convent because the
history department at Yale says it is
accurate only in outline and not in de-
itail.
| On board the Santa Maria there
lwere mutinies and trouble some times.
Martin Alonzo Pinzon, Spanish gen.
ltleman, who owned the Santa Maria,
commanded the Pinta, and furnished
the cash for the trip climbs aboard
!, for a conference with the navigator.
Much more is made of Pinzon in the
film than of Queen Isabella's jewels
! for the history professors at Yale dc
not believe she pawned them at all.
i They say, according to the. men
making the pictures, Pinzon furnished
J most of the money and that although
Isabelle was willing to part with hel
gems it was not necessary.
: "We are trying to make this picture
/ a model of accuracy, not only in de.
J Itails but in facts" said Roswell Da.
Igue, assistant production manager il
{ Iexplaining the work. 1--WE are moi
I writing in a love story to make it more
, interesting. This picture which is the
! first of a series dealing with Ameri
can historical events will be checked
1 over foot by foot by the Yale histor,
professors and everything they do no
! like must come out or be made over
''There are no actors playing tn
: parts of priests on board this boat
= While Columbus was an extremely re
e lligious mani might say almost ia
: natically religious-he did not have
r priest on his first voyage and tn
e popular picture of him landing follow
e led by a priest bearing banner is no
: accurate. Extracts from Columbus
e log book tell US lot about the voy
). Iage and we are producing eyerythin
e lin the journey which has any bearin
on the story. There is no plot to th
lpicture>
), "We take up Columbus in Portugs
where King John received him an
then double-crossed him by fitting on
: his own expedition. We show th
: mariner fleeing for his life from th
- court and then his solicitations to th
French and English courts. FINAL
he is accepted by the king and quee
r of Spain and we show his journe.
ID his return to Spain and his last days
in prison"
is Miss Dolores Cassineli is takin
to the part of Queen Isabella and Ere
Eric is taking the part of Columbus.