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INCA TO BE BLOWN UP. SPECTACULAR PICTURE FILM. After lying idle in Berry's Bay for the last five years, says a Sydney paper, the hulk of the old five-masted schooner Inca has been sold to Australasian Films, Ltd., by Messrs. Auland and Co., and Is to be taken out to sea, set on fire, and blown up during the filming of 'an Australian-made picture, "For the Term of his Natural Life." Masts are to be erected and about 60ft. of the aft part of the vessel will be refitted to represent one of the terrible convict vessels of a hundred years ago. The vessel will then be fully rigged as a sailing ship, and taken well out to sea, where she will be set on fire and destroyed by explosives. •Some of the scenes will be "shot" while the Inca is in Berry's Bay, but in order that an unbroken skyline may be shown most of them will be taken out si rite Sydney Heads. A special feature of the film will be the natural colour effects.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19394, 31 July 1926, Page 9
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181END OF OLD SCHOONER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19394, 31 July 1926, Page 9
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