Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-02-14 | Page 24 | 'Big Bertha'

'Big Bertha7 : - . tv . t , . i . f-. ' : .'' li " " v . ' t:,-' , jy. ) Looking very much like the real thing, this prop "Big Bertha" is being placed on a truck to be moved to an outdoor location near Los Angeles, Cal., for war scenes in the Charlie Chaplin picture now under production. Built in the studio workshop in Hollywood, the gun is 100 feet long over all, weighs 6500 pounds and is mechanically operated by manpower to "shoot" projectiles 24 inches by 6 feet 3 inches. It required two months of day and night work to build the gun, and the studio claims it to be the largest single prop ever built.