TECHNICOLOR LIZARD.
Technicolor experts filming "South of Samoa" at Paramount's Catalina Island location thought they were going colour-blind during a scene with Robert Preston,- who is featured opposite Dorothy Lamour. In the scene, Preston had fallen exhausted in a tangle of jungle undergrowth. Insects buzzed around his head and the sun beat down mercilessly. A lizard, which the property men had captured for the scene, was supposed to crawl over the actor's outstretched hand. William Mellor. the cameraman, had the Technicolor cameras turning on the scene. The grey lizard darted about Preston's hand and up his, arm. Then it happened The lizard- gradually turned flesh colour and as it darted on. to his shirt sleeves it turned green, the colour of' his shirt, then it became almost vermilion. The cameramen and > Technicolor experts glanced at each . othef questidningly, each ' thinking that his eyes had tricked him."Unwittingly, •-the^pro"pertj£ department had supplied . a chameleon, and the little saurian was changing, colours. at : will. . Now, either the "South of Samoa"script will have to be changed or else the picture will feature a rainbow lizard.. ..
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19400314.2.168.14
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 63, 14 March 1940, Page 20
Word Count
181TECHNICOLOR LIZARD. Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 63, 14 March 1940, Page 20
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in