Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-04-29 | Page 23 | Thousands in "Robin Hood"

THOUSANDS IN i ROBIN ROBINHOOD HOOD Fairbanks Latest Film Took Months To Complete An Idea of or the tho magnitude of Douglas Fairbanks most undertaking Robin Hood in- in in involving the production of or this sit sn- str cinema drama may be had from the follo following Ing statistics Over twenty thousand cre employed In tn the thc branches ot or Industry to make this production The Tho royal banquet room In th thaO castle Is the largest room In the ho how orld w orld being larger even than the th concourse of ot the Pennsylvania Ter Ter- Ter Terminal Terminal minal station In New Nets e vork lork ork Cit More than ten thousand pe pelo lo appear In various scene scenes two Twenty-two experts delved and studied In the tho necessary work for tor accurate designing of or the colossal sets Hundreds 3 or of o work work- wor- wor workmen workmen men labored three months to build the sets AtS ts One million feet or ap- ap apI approximately ap I proximately thirty five e C carloads of f lumber were ere ero used In their con con- construction con construction Thirty tons tona ton or about con I ono carload or of nails were consumed In erecting the sets Two hundred and fifty tons ton of or went vent into Inlo the castle WillS Will'S I Morn More than fifteen n acres of studio property tt were ero ero used for tor the prin I pal sets The Tho kings king's castle alone alono covers two and one halt acres and Is hundred and nd ten feet In height The Tho t exterior Is sl sI hundred ind I twenty feet foet long lont There ar are eight fight CAStle towers 1 these to towers ers were water vater tanks tanks each hold I The mu muslin lIn diffusing S used to diffuse Is light Is bigger Ih thC combined big big tops ot or the s a greatest circus Is Twenty thousand ards arda of or Y HI ets and rich cloth matt mate hI ere tero used In iii making the co costumes S Sworn worn by pia ers And Every Etory E lIry weapon capon carried In the pro pro- production pro production was made mado entirely by h bend md Thousands of or s swords shiel Is Ia and daggers halt had to be Y made Saddles Saddle Sn and trappings to tor foi the I horace horben sowed hand ero all made hand sowed nd thel In making an exact duplicate of I the 1 used by Ring King Richard RichardI I in his Crusade to the Holy Land LandI pounds or of o Iron were The Tho entire stock of or thee tam tam- tamIe tann Ics Ie let was taken token over for tor the lioe u used ed by the tho players