Title: His Kind of Woman
Content: set for a full size 150-foot yacht, including interiors. The yacht set was in a very large water tank on Stage 22 of the RKO Culver City lot, the biggest sound stage in Hollywood. A new scene involved the sinking of a rowing boat; "After the boat reached a certain point, it had to sink fairly slowly, the water coming up to the chins of the smallest seated soldiers". This required that the tank with the yacht set be emptied, have a portion rebuilt to deepen it to accommodate the sinking as scripted and be refilled. Another new scene involved

Title: The Ox-Bow Incident
Content: Board). During the shutdown, already used sets were torn down so their materials could be used to build the mountain pass set. Studio publicity noted that the Ox-Bow Valley setting was "the largest set ever constructed" by Fox, covering 26,703 square feet. The western street set seen in this film was subsequently used in another western, "The Gunfighter" (1950), which starred Gregory Peck. After filming was completed, Fonda immediately enlisted in the U.S. Navy, in which he served until 1946. After the film was completed, it was kept on the shelf for months because Fox executives were uncertain how to

Title: Union Pacific Big Boy
Content: service. Peak horsepower was reached at about . The maximum drawbar pull measured during 1943 tests was 138,000 lbs while starting a train. Without the tender, the Big Boy has the longest engine body of any reciprocating steam locomotive. The 1944 4884-2 series Big Boys were also arguably the heaviest steam locomotives ever built, at 1,208,750 lbs for engine and tender, and 772,250 lbs (engine only) in working order. There is some speculation that the first series of C&O H8 2-6-6-6 engines may have weighed as much as 778,200 lbs, but during subsequent re-weighs of early production H8's under close

Title: Wagon Tracks
Content: the spreading dawn, Buckskin sadly replies, "Mebbe." Upon its release in 1919, "Wagon Tracks" was hailed by the "Los Angeles Times" as the industry's "Greatest Desert Epic." In its praise of the film, the "Times" continued, "The great desert screen epic is with us at last. It has been done by William S. Hart and C. Gardner Sullivan, with the aid of a fine cast and superlative photography ... Let it also be said that the music adds so vividly to the charm of the production that it might be said to be raised to that level of artistic achievement

Title: Gerald M. Best
Content: Gerald M. Best Gerald M. "Jerry" Best (1895–1985) was a noted railroad historian, author, photographer, and one of the top sound engineers in the motion picture industry. After receiving an electrical engineering degree from Cornell, Best served in the Army Signal Corps, worked for AT&T, and then went to work for Warner Brothers in 1928, where his knowledge of sound technology was very useful as the age of talking pictures began. In 1958, he went to work for Walt Disney, taking responsibility for Disneyland’s railroad. After retiring in 1962, he served as an advisor to the President’s Golden Spike Centennial

Question: Who described a Hollywood studio set as, "The biggest train set a boy ever had?"
Answer: Orson Wells