i the space of three hours and twenty minutes after Cameraman Nor Alley arrived by air from the O ut, two prints, two duplicate negatives and two "protective prints"
of 3,000 feet each were processed Besides, 7,900 feet were put together for the English public.
What Universal's operators had to work on were 46 mixed rolls of film made by Mr. Alley. Put together they showed the normal sequence of events from the fall of Nanking to the arrival of the Panay dead and survivors in Shanghai. Getting it into shape was a big job for the short time allotted.
Another task was to satisfy a roomful of newspaper picture editors and [photographers who hungrily demand-Jed eu of important scenes for next morning's newspapers.
Ree! after reel was flashed on the screen, all without coherence and in negative form, White faces showed black (except the white denoting faces turned black by shell shock) and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.