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Show Quins Play, Require Re-quire Five Cars of Movie and Sound Equipment An army of studio technicians, actors, writers and cameramen 1 spent weeks of careful planning and preparation before completing the Dionne Quins' second Twentieth Century-Fox picture, "Reunion" the dramatic home-coming of the Country Doctor's 3,000 grown-up "babies" playing Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, January 3, 4 and 5, at 1 the Cameo Theatre. Several weeks before the actual shooting began, Director Norman Taurog and several aides entrained for the Quins' home at Callander, Ontario, for a survey of the conditions condi-tions under which the babies would have to be filmed and for a series of conferences with Dr. Dafoe, the "Country Doctor" who brought the Quins into the world. Taurog's party par-ty included art directors, writers, sound engineers and cameronmen. Ten days were spent making various var-ious tests by this group before the entire company composed of approximately ap-proximately 80 players and additional addi-tional technicians boarded a special train at Hollywood bound for the Canadian location. Onto this same train were hooked five freight cars loaded with sound and camera apparatus, ap-paratus, "props" and ten tons of electrical equipment. Players that accompanied this second wave included Jean Her-shot, Her-shot, the lovable backwoods practitioner prac-titioner of "The Country Doctor," Dorothy Peterson, Rochelle Hudson, Robert Kent, and John Qualen, heading a large and important cast. With the Quins now able to play little piano pieces and dance, Taurog Tau-rog devoted a considerable amount of his filming operations to sound. The children were taught simple nursery exercises, appearing before the cameras for only one hour a day. n |
