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stock footage from other movies?


Anyone notice that when Duke Wayne arrives at the island, the natives all take to their boats - in footage lifted from MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY [1935] and later, when Duke and Gail Russell look down at his ship in the bay, we see a back projected view from THE SEA HAWK (1940)?

What I wonder is how Republic Pictures licensed such shots from other studios...? (MGM and Warner)

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Renting out stock footage was as good a way for MGM and Warner Bros to make money as selling tickets to their own pictures.

He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good... St. Matthew 5:45

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