The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-01-09
ALASKA SCENES FOR MOVIE ARE NOW COMPLETED
Actors, Accompanied by Small Sized Menagerie,
 on Way to South

With a menagerie of Alaskan wild animals safely slowed away aboard the steamer, the Universal Motion Picture Company-Del Cambre, star actor, Norman Dawn, director, J Loucks, property man, and their three bear cub actors from the States-are passengers aboard the Alaska enroute to Los Angeles.
 The Universal Company members, who spent several days last summer in Juneau and at Mary Joyce's lodge at Taku. have been in the Interior for several months securing material for feature picture which will be released within few months. Tie film story relates the adventures of an aviator whose plane crashes and burns on a glacier in Alaska while he is attempting to fly over the North Pole, and hows his experiences while making his way back to civil zation equipped only with pocket I knife, and accompanied by two bear cubs The third bear cub in the con- pany was brought along to act as a double" in the event that either of the stars became lost or injured.
 Many Scenes Shot
 About 60,000 feet of motion picture film was exposed by Director Nor man Dawn and Property Man J. Loucks who served as camera men, but the finished picture will be cut to about 5000 or 10000 feet, the length of the average feature picture. Sound effects will be dubbed into the picture in Los Angeles and the beginning and end of the feature and all interior scenes will be shot" on location in the Universal studies in California. The title for the pie ture has not yet been decided upon.
 Menagerie Aboard
 The picture company spent several weeks in Fairbanks, like period in Anchorage, one week at the McKin- ley National Park, and about two months near Tustumena Lake in the Kenai Peninsula. AS souvenirs of their Alaskan experiences, and also for possible ''retakes," the Universal company has number of Alaskan wild animals with them aboard the ship, including three wolverines, two porcupines, two ravens, and white fox from Bristol Bay, in addition to the three bear cubs from the States.
 P0rcupines In Scene
 The porcupines are reminiscent of a scene taken in the Fairbanks area for which 369 porcupines were gath cred in large enclosure. In anoth- CT scene taken in Anchorage, in which the film story aviator, while in pursuit of moose, is seen break ing through tundra moss and fall- ing into an underground mink bur row, l25 mink rented from an An- chorage fur farm were photographed together with Del Cambre and his two bear cub companions.
 Scenes taken in the Interior in- clude pictures of the musk-ox at the University of Alaska, the caribou migration in the Fairbanks district. moose at Tustumena lake, mountain sheep in Mckinley Park, and many sequences involving porcupines, snow shoe rabbits, mink, and wolverines. A number of wolverines were deliv- cred alive to the Universal company as result of advertisements, but all but three of them died as a result of rough handling which, Del Cam bre said, seems to be necessary in any sort of association with the beasts. Advertisements for live wolves failed to produce any live specimens.
 / Encounters Grizzly
 In one of the scenes a mother grizzly bear and two cubs were pho- tographed at distance of less than one hundred feet at a time when none of the party happened to have gun. Tt wouldn't have been so bad" Del Cambre said, but there weren't any trees, either"
 Among the hardships attendant upon picture making in Alaska ex- perienced by the actors in the Uni- versal company was the fact that the period or the story is during tho summer months and light clothing had to be worn by Del Cambre even Tn the coldest weather. Snow some- times had to be removed from the scenes for the same reason. Del Cam ore IS at present in possession of a line, luxuriant crop of whiskers which he will be forced to wear until the last interior scene has been pho- tographed in Los Angeles. The bear cubs from the States have their troubles, too. being forced to stay awake contrary to their natural in- clination to sleep through the cold winter months.