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Show had his bags packed and was en route to Long Beach, ready to weigh anchor and join the Gloucester schooner, "We're Here". With him was Spencer Tracy as the Portuguese Portu-guese fisherman, Manuel, who rescues res-cues the younster from the sea. On an earlier boat had sailed Lionel Li-onel Barrymore, the Capt. Disko of the story, who commands the "We're Here"; and Mickey Rooney, as Dan, his son. With them were fifteen members of the technical crew. In addition to Bartholomew and Tracy the afternoon "fleet" carried fifty additional members of the camera, sound, carpenter, wardrobe and other technical staffs, a doctor, two school teachers who supervised the floating schoolhouse for Freddie, Mickey and their stand-ins; and Arthur Rosenstine, voice coach, who schooled the crew in their sea chanteys. chan-teys. Last of the location company to leave the studio were Director Victor Vic-tor Fleming and chief cameraman Hal Rosson who brought up the rear guard by flying to Avalon at night after checking all last-minute details. de-tails. This picture will play at the Cameo Theatre Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, August 29, 30 and 31. o Sea Location Trip for "Captains Courageous" Greatest Ever Attempted A floating molion picture studio put to sea for the greatest ocean location adventure on record. That adventure began last winter off the fog-bound Newfoundland banks when a camera crew set out to film the fishing fleet in action. It reached its climax when the entire en-tire cast of Rudyard Kipling's "Captains "Cap-tains Courageous" was transferred bodily from the M-G-M studio in Culver City to fishing schooners, barges and water taxis between 9 o'clock in the morning and 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Seventy-five persons in all put to two weeks to a month or more. It took them first to Catalina Lsland and later up the Oregon coast. With them went full camera, sound and electrical equipment, shortwave broadcasting and receiving apparatus, appara-tus, wardrobe, props, film and food supirfies. At 9 a. m. Freddie Bartholomew, in the role of Harvey Cheyne, pampered millionaire's son, was sipping sip-ping chocolate sodas on an M-G-M sound stage for one of the concluding conclud-ing "shore" sequences. Two other scenes followed. At 4 p. m. Freddie |