The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25

ture career that began in 1910.
While his directorial talent was
we'll recognized in such productions
as "The Wizard of o." TEST Pi
lot" Captain Courageous" TREAS
ure Island and many others, never
theless he will be remembered fol-
Gone with the Wind" as far anG
away the most distinguished direc'
torial job in screen annals.
1852 Feet of Film
Approximately 449,512 feet of film
were SHOT, of which 100, 900 fee
were printed. From this length
most of it repetitive, the finally
edited film has been cut to 20,30(
feet. Fifteen hundred set sketches
were drawn; 200 designed and 81
constructed. The %recreated City o.
Atlanta is the largest set evel
built, consisting of So fulI-size build
ings and 1000 feet of streets. TIT
reconstructed "Peachtree Street
alone is 5000 feet long $50. Tit
amount of lumber that went into
the 80 sets is roughly estimated a
a million feet. Eleven hundred
horses, 375 assorted other animals
dogs, mules, oxen, cows, pigs, etc.,
450 vehicles wagons, ~gun-caisons
ambulances, etc.), were used. Ii
addition to the SO members of thu
cast, there were over 1900 days o
employment given to over 2,400 eX
ira and bit people. The fact tina
Technicolor requires exposure O.
three separate strips of film stimuli
taneously means that 100000 fee
of film ran through the cameras tt
provide a color footage of 10000
feet. Vivien Leigh worked in thu
picture for % weeks with only foul
days off in that entire time, making
her role the longest in history. Sht
had more than forty costume
changes, the largest wardrobe any
player has eyer had in one produc
ton. At the Charity Bazaar" TO-,
900 articles of home manufacture
most of them genuinely antique
were offered for sale. twenty-five
rare canoes were bought in the
United States and Europe to be
used on Scarlett's dresses.
I TehnicoIor Cameras
Seven Technicolor ameras were
used to film the fires of Atlanta in
duplicate of the actual scene of u
years ago. Flames 500 feet high
leaped from a set that covered AZ
acres. Ten pieces of fire equipment
from the Los Angeles fire depart
ment, 25 policemen from the Los
Angeles police department, SO studio
firemen and 200 studio helpers stood
ready throughout the filming of this
sequence in ease the fire should
get out of hand. Three 5,000-gallon
water tanks were used to quench
the flames after the shooting. Io
have filmed every page of the BOOB
with the actual conversation ano
action would ha ye required nearly d
million feet of film, which would
take a solid week to show with the
protector running "a hours a day
Nevertheless, the producers belleVe
and hope that every well-remem'
bered scene of the book has been
included, either in faithful tran
scription of the original or in keep
ing within the exact spirit of Miss
MitchelFs work. Cost accountants
estimate that in the preparation OF
the film, before a single foot was
shot, there were 100000 mar hours
devoted to preparation. In actual
production there were 100000 man
hours. Seven bales Of cotton went
into the $500 costumes worn by the
feminine characters. The cleaning
bill for wardrobe during production
since the State Industrial board
requires studios to clean all ward
robes after each usage-slightly eX-
ceeds $4,000. T~hirty-four different
carpet designs were used; So wall
paper designs were handpainted for
the picture. The American Insti-
tute of Public Opinion, known as
as Gallup POLL" estimates that
Sc, 500, 900 people in this country
alone are waiting to see the picture
largest potential audience any
motion picture has ever had. A
total world audience of 100,000,0 900
is calculated on the basis of world
returns of previous Selznick and
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictures.