Show the little gypsy Is mondays fox feature during the filming of the little gypsy it was wai necessary for one of the scenes to build a complete dam it took many weeks to complete this big piece of 0 work and cost many thousands of dollars for labor and material A spot waa selecta fc I 1 in oakland valley in the Sat catskills skills aid at d here was erected one ot of the largest pieces of masonry ever attempted for a moving picture e the dam when finished measured feet in length seventy five feet across its widest point fifty feet clear at the overflow and was ten feet deep when all the work was completed the scene was set and the dam was burst it Is to as thrilling a scene as one would care to witness on or off the screen would aou ou believe that it vas as pos sible to take motion pictures at night in the tle depths ot of a patch of dark woods while a furious thunderstorm was vms raging and the lain descending in sheets while ever and again gret great streaks of lagged jagged lightning split tl e if it you have not seen the little gypsy as for william fox by oscar keipfel the famous director your answer would in all probably be an emphatic no but imps sible as it may sound in the little gypsy you can behold on the screen seated in a snug security of your ta fa motion picture theatre a fur lous tons thunderstorm in which trees are whipped around like reeds before an overwhelming blast the deluge descends in gale driven flows and so realistic Is the scene you can almost hear the ear splitting crash that tol fol lows every blinding flash it is no wonder that this scene is realistic for it la Is the real thing it was taken after weeks of waiting tor for just such a night how was it done well that Is director directors s aptel s secret |