Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in “Gone with the Wind”
Keeping Faith With Those
Who Read The Famous Book
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So far as I know, no one has
come forward *o claim the chani- j
OioDship for rapid reading: of !
Marsaret Mitchell’s truly dramat- i
ic novel. “Gone With the Wind.” i
It is difficult tor me to imagine |
anyone completing a careful di- I
gest of the book in !e«« than I
twenty-four hours of actual read
ing time. Mr. David Selzn'.ck and
T sought to get all of the mem
orable events of that book into
an evening of screen entertain- i
(Bt. As it turned out. the story ^
Is told in three hours and forty- f
^ve minutes of film.
Novels have l.een converted ,
into screen fare before. A screen I
^lirector knows that film pace and
rhythm can cover much .m ound |
which took dozens of pages in a
book. That pace 1 knew would
play a major role in our story
and I was prepared for it, But I
didn’t realize that into my hands,
had been thrust a virtual Bible
Southern life with a string of
ont'.s” a mile long.
Whatever problems we had on
“Gone With the "Wind” were in
consequential alongside of that
latter of creati!.g a story to sat-
fy the world’s greatest pre-sold
critical audience any film jia-
ever hc.l. Miss Mitchell had told
us what would be authentic and
we had to duplicate it. We had
no authority to heighten any situ
ation or minimize any other. We
couldn't change simply for effect.
We were not making a picture to
please an author or a cast of
characters Our thought had to
be on a public which was rabid
on the subject.
So out the window wept a ma
jor part of the experience-proved
(ta'amatlc Inventions we know.
Imagination is a fine thing in
eatertainment, but accurate trans
fer of life fs another thing. We
all know that if we make a pic
ture shovrtng a miner at work,
we must be sure to employ a real
miner who will have our miner
obaracter acting and talking like
a miner. We do that to satisfy a
really small part of our audience
which will know wheather we are
right or wrong. Yet here we had
not a minority but a va.st major
ity of onr audience in the posi
tion of critical experts.
Down to Reality
I went to work on “Gone With
the Wind” with the headaches of
pure ima.gination from “Wizard
of Oz’’ still rinsing in my ear.s. I
had felt that picture was quite a
problem, brt now 1 began to see
.something I’topian in an audience
which didn’t know what a .Munch-
kin was. nor how an Emerald City
might look. 1 was down to the
bed rock of realTfy, with million?
of voices shouting, “Hew to the
line, mister."
-Any important i'eriod picture
has its hcadches. Yon can't use
si.\ty principals and nine thous
and supporting players without
realizing you’ve heeii through the
mill. Nor can you fail to appreci
ate the resiioiisibilily of a motion
picture which has accumulated a
million working lions from those
who helped make it real. They tell
me we shot I.S.AO.UOO feet of
tif'i'aiivc, Now that it’s all done,
the figure doesn’t sitrprise me.
Erosion Control
By Kudzu Plants
Had To Look Alike
To Win Roles
scores of interviews, and
•he comparison of hundreds of
phologiaph.s. two actors were
picked who It'Oked enou.gli alike
to play tt’i'art and Brent Tarle-
ton. in "Gone with the Wind,'’
opening .Monday on the .screen.
They are Fred Crane and George
Reeves, Crane plays Brent and
Reeves Stuart. A.side from the
color of their hair —Crane’s is
brown and Reeves’ black—the
two men’s features are remark
ably similar, and they are nearly
of a size. Crane is six feet one
inch and Reeves a half inch taller,
but Reeves is five pounds lighter
'han Craiie’.s 1S5. Crane is from
New Orleans. La., and is playing
his first role in pictures. He is
20 years old and has green eyes.
Reeves, 23. has been in California
ten years and is a native of Ash
land. Kentucky.
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The story of how an ornament
al plant was transformed into a
major field crop in the Southeast
in less Mian a decade is told in
Farmers' Bulletin No. 1840—
"Kudzu for Erosion Control in
the Southeast''—recently issued
ly the n. S. Department of Agri
culture.
The bulletin, written by R. Y.
Bailey, senior agronomist of the
Soil Conservation Service, also
cells how a stand of kudzu may
'oe established for producing pala
table hay and ,forage. Farmers in
Wilkes County may obtain copies
of the bulletin by writing to the
Soil Conservation Service. Spar
tanburg. S. C.
Kudzu is descriied in the bulle-
in as a "heavy duty plant’’ e.spec-
ially adapted to soil and climatic
conditions of the Southeast. It
grows vigorously on eroded land,
produces a dense ground cover to
irotect the .surface of the soil
against beaMiig rains, restores
fertility on eroded areas by add
ing organic matter and nitrogen,
maintains a stand of plants over
a long period of year.s without
replanting, and produces pala
table hay and forage.
Introduced from Japan some
.’>0 years ago, kudzu was common
ly known as “porch vine’’ and
used largely as a shade, though
there was lii lited use of the plant
for hay. grazing, and roadside
protection. Since the beginning of
erosion control projects under the
Soil Conservation Service, how
ever, land devoted to kudzu has
increased to more than 40,000
acres.
Kudzu is a deciduous, viney le
gume which grows from cross
buds and buds at the nodes of
the vines. The vines often reach
a growth of 50 feet or more dur
ing a single growing season. The
plant grows rapidly during spring
and summer, its roots often pene
trating to a depth of tttree feet
or more. The large leaves drop
with the first froet to form a
sponge-like layer of absorptive
material.
While the plant will grow any
where south of Maryland, kudzu
is ent well adapted to low,
marshy lands: poorly drained
areas of the more acid soils; or to
the Blacx Belt of Alabama and
Mississippi.
j The filming_
scene ever .::.p.hoiogntAj^
made,possible by .«(
the' largest motion picture ream-
era crane. A giant boom with an
extension of 85 feet in any direc
tion, Including a direct vertical
one. was designed to 'Photograph
1560 extras on the forty-acre At
lanta, Georgia, set in “Gone 'With
the Wind,” the Technicolor pro
duction starring Clark Gable, Lee-
lie Howard and Olivia de Havll-
land and presenting 'Vivien tieigh
as Scarlett O’Hara. The picture
opens Monday on the Uberty
screen.
So enormous was the crane's
weight—140 tons—^that a con
crete runway two hundred feet
long and twelve feet wide was
built along the track where the
crane moved. The largest camera
crane .previously In existence had
a boom reach of only 33 feet, en
tirely inadequate for the scetaes
proposed by Director Victor Flem
ing. It was desired to shoot a
close-up of Miss Leigh as Scar
lett O'Hara, and swing from that
directly to a long shot of Union
and Confederate wounded just
brought to the Atlanta railway
station from the battlefield, in
July, 1864.
The giant camera boom was
built with a contractor’s rigging
crane, mounted with its caterpil
lar tractor on two trailers, and
supported by forty-six truck
sized pneumatic tired wheels. The
crane was designed to handle
such heavy loads as structural
steel members, tanks and electric
signs, so it was rigid enough to
i support the big Technicolor cam-
icras without vibration.
A ten-toil truck supplied the
motive power for moving the
crane along the runway, and the
boom itself was moved by a 150-
horsepower motor mounted on
the platform of the crane. Be
cause of the noise of these pow
erful engines, a special arrange
ment was made for recording
sound in the crane shots.
the bulletin warns, and it is best
not to get more than one cutting
a season.
Since kudzu can easily be erad
icated, there is no danger of its
ever becoming a pest. While the
vines will over-grow trees in
jungle fashion if left alone, the
plant can easily be kept in bounds
by making a trip around the for
est border three or four times in
the"' proT^IU
keep tke doctor awky,'’V Uso
should have a fruit budget (or the.
year.
He recommends 12 pounds of
fried fruit, 24 quarts ot canned
fruits, and Ove 'PintS 'of Jeliy for
each member of the family.
the the summer with a drag har-,
row. t
#1& pounds of a 6,-7-6
commei%la! fertilizer’' per sihAL:
Aable or chicken manure is also
good. Do not apply fertilize or
manorh'' close. to the vine. Thin
out the' bearing raspberry rows so
that the remaining canes will be
three to every foot of row. Per-
tlllza the raspberries which are
bearing with manure
two
of
‘in a ring
of -foot from
plant. Cut -each grape vine
berry plant to n few inches
the gronnd,; leaving severe).badn.
Care should he exercised ta
hoeing young raspberry plants pa
as not to cut off the new shoola
that develop from the roots ag
the base of the plants. A gardea
weeder is better than a hoe la
pulverize the soil around the r
of tho plants.
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eoNE me the wind
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Kudzu is ideally suited for the
reclamation of critical slopes—
badly eroded, “break-off” slopes, i
I such a.s *ho lower sides of old i
I bench terraces—occurring in cul- j
'tivated fields. i
"There is a need on most south
eastern I’arms,’’ the bulletin
.states, "for an abundance ot
cheap forage. Kudzu makes hay
of e.xcellent quality: it.s feedin.g |
value is a.s high as that of alfalfa.
It produces larger yields than
most annual plants commonly
grown for hay and ha.s the dis
tinct advantage of not requiring
soil preparation and planting eve
ry year and it Is not seriously af
fected by seasonal droughts.”
The Alabama ExperimeM Sta
tion has developed a single at
tachment for the end of the cut
ter bar of the mowing machinh-
which greatly simplifies mowing
kudzu, and the hay can easily be
raked with an ordinary dqinp
rake. The hay cures rapidly and
can be atored Ukeiother h»f.
za riuMild never b«
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