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Show "Flight" Made With Aid Of Government "Flight," ' the Columbia all-talking aviation sensation coming to the Cameo Theatre on Sunday and Monday, Mon-day, December 8 and 9, was made 'with the cooperation of government officials in Washington. Captain Francis E. Pierce of the Uniteo. States Marine Corps was detailed to supervise war scenes on the production. produc-tion. Colonel Harry Lay, temporarily temporari-ly in charge of the Marine Base at San Diego, was also actively engaged engag-ed in the direction of the battle sequences. se-quences. In commenting on the work done in San Diego, army officials have stated that the machine gun firing, the aerial action and the manoeuvres manoeu-vres of the soldiers are true to ac-j ac-j tual warfare- All the machine guns ; and other artillery were copied from ' what was used in the recent Mexican rebellion, and the planes are accurate duplicates of those used in the government gov-ernment Marine Base. Before a single scene had been made, a crew of technical men under ' the supervision of United States Marine Ma-rine officers were sent to San Diego to prepare the battle ground. The fort used by the marines in the picture pic-ture is an exact duplicate of the one that played an important part in the Mexican revolution. Jack Holt, Ralph Graves and Director Di-rector Frank R. Capra, the triumvirate trium-virate that (made "Submarine," the talk of the nation, were re-united for this production. |