POLICEMEN CO-OPERATE WITH FILM PRODUCERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 424, 15 November 1930, Page 15 (Supplement)

POLICEMEN CO-OPERATE WITH FILM PRODUCERS

The script of Columbia’s forthcoming special production, “Dirigible,” called for scenes showing the New York welcome accorded the home-coming of a prominent flying man. Consequently the production unit, which included Jack Holt ad Ralph Graves, gave jobs to no less than 200 of New York’s jobless army. They were given every cooperation by the New York Police Department, as well as local governing bodies, and the U.S. Navy Band supplied the music necessary to the occasion.

In addition to the 200 paid extras, an enormous crowd gathered to watch Holt, Graves, Capra (the director), the fourteen cameramen and the various film technicians at work. The policemen on duty during the filming of the required scenes included fifty patrolmen, five sergeants, ten motor-cycle officers and ten mounted policemen. They imparted the desired realistic atmosphere to the scenes recorded. “Dirigible” is being produced by the Columbia Pictures Corporation as a companion picture to their great production “Flight,” which proved such an outstanding hit locally. Owing to the whole-hearted co-operation lent to the company by the United States Navy Department, besides the increased production expenditure, “Dirigible” is condently expected to prove a much more pretentious picture even than “Flight.”