FOG BROUGHT TO LONDON.

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 107, 7 May 1936, Page 21

FOG BROUGHT TO LONDON.

It would seem hardly necessary • to • create a fog in a city, so famous for its pea-soupers as London,, but' this ■ is • what Criterion Productions have had'; to do, for their film, "The Amateur , Gentleman." l^ot only have the effectsmen had to create the fog but also to ' fetch the necessary material by special ! aeroplane from the Continent. In "The Amateur Gentleman" scenes are being staged by ■ Thornton. Freeland, the ' director, which show a sensational escape from an eighteenth century ; prison under cover 01 a dense' fog. To < secure an effect that, would, be realis- ■ tic as well as practical for the camera, ■ the best preparation was -anxiously sought. It was-Gunther Krampf, the ' celebrated cameraman who < is '< turning ' on this- film, who suggested sending to the Continent for the latest thing in togs, and within a few hours the preparation arrived by-air. The "fog" is a powder made of wood and it is treated with chemicals so that when ignited wood smoke is produced but the chemicals prevent the wood from bursting into flame. The resultant fog is white, smells pleasantly of a wood, fire, and has the merit of rising to a certain level where it remains stationary for longer than the old-fashioned flare-produced smoke.