Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-02-19 | Page 19 | Instrument Cooks up Film Mist

v.- v. I Instrument Cools Cooks Up Film Mist By JOHN TODD HOLLYWOOD INS The cloud cooker a device which can canfill canfill fill a sound stage with a billowing white mist within a matter of ot seconds seconds sec sec- and which can make the principals principals principals prin prin- In a film Him scene appear to be floating In space has made its debut on the Hollywood scene It takes its place with such other automatic weather-makers weather as the snow machine the wind machine and th the overhead sprinkler pipes for rain The cloud cooker is the Invention invention invention tion of Clyne Jones Paramount prop shop worker who experimented experimented experimented for weeks to find a device which would give an unearthly quality to the dream sequences of Lady in the Dark In which Ginger Ginger Ginger Gin Gin- ger Rogers Imagines herself in a series of fantastic situations filled with fantastic p people ople In the dreams automobiles buildings and every imaginable type of set decoration decoration decoration dec dec- oration from circus wagons to wedding cakes float by as if movIng moving moving ing through space by their own 0 volition To build mechanical platforms and utilize trick photography photography photography raphy to achieve these effects would have added thousands of ot dollars to an already heavy budget Then Jones Jones' came through with his cloud cooker At the moment 12 of these cookers cookers cookers cook cook- ers are in operation on Paramount's Paramount's Paramount's Para- Para mounts mount's largest stage 18 where the dream wedding edding procession is being photographed They consist of a metal can about the size of a garbage can set in a wooden frame which extends extends extends ex ex- ex- ex tends out in front like a long snout The can Is filled with hot water into which Is dunked a wire basket full of dry ice A jet of steam is also blown through the can and the bubbling carbon dioxide fumes from the dry ice are thus forced through the lined felt snout or bellows chute out onto the stage The gas being heavier than air can be laid down almost like a ap carpet p to any y d desired e depth