"THE BLUE BIRD"
The spectacular forest fire in Maurice Maeterlinck's "The Blue Bird," the 20th Century-Fox technicolor production, .is a real one. There was no "movie trickery" involved in it. The fire was so hot that the camera crew had to wear asbestos suits and the camera had to be protected by a fireproof bulkhead with a porthole of pyrex glass. In the film, Shirley Temple, Gale Sondergaard, Eddie Collins, and Johnny Russell seem very close to the flames. The explanation is that they really were.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 10, 11 July 1940, Page 18
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86"THE BLUE BIRD" Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 10, 11 July 1940, Page 18
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