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I'm still astonished...

posted 16 years ago by rwsmith29456
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... at the quality and quantity of exciting air footage in this film. How in the world did they achieve this, especially with no communication in the air? The editing was great, too.

[–] HoneyBakedHam 14 years ago

The film's budget was $2 million so it definately could afford the resources needed to shoot and edit it, and pay some great stars for the film like Clara Bow and Buddy Rogers.
The air scenes in particular would interest me what type of cameras they used and the such. Guess being silent, they didn't need to worry about the audio for those bits

[–] jmartz11 14 years ago

Yeah but why would that budget they did not have any audio for the actors? BOOOOO

[–] lynxx55 14 years ago

The squadron used hand signals to communicate. Remember it's 1917, kiddies!

[–] Foxlair45 14 years ago

It was a silent film.

[–] HoneyBakedHam 14 years ago

"Yeah but why would that budget they did not have any audio for the actors? BOOOOO"

I hope my reply in the other thread explains a few things ;)