Show FLIGHT MADE WITH AID OF government flight the columbia all talking aviation sensation coming to the ides theater on saturday was made with the cooperation of government officials in washington captain francis E pierce of the united states marine corps was detailed to supervise war scenes on the production colonel harry lay temporarily in charge of the marine base at san diego was also actively engaged in the direction of the battle sequences in commenting on the work done in san diego army officials have stated that the machine gun tiring the aerial action and the maneuvers of the soldiers are true to actual warfare all the machine guns and otier artillery were copied from what was used in the recent mexican rebellion and the planes are accurate duplicates of those used in the government marine base before a single scene had beep made a crew of technical men under the supervision of united states marine officers were sent to san diego to prepare the battle ground the fort used by the marines in the picture is an ecaca duplicate of the one that played an important part in the mexican revolution jack holt ralph graves and director frank R capra the triumvirate that made submarine the talk of the nation were reunited re united for this production |