Because of the increased attention being given short subjects on several of the lots, there is a growing conviction in Hollywood that coincidental with the rearrangement which seems inevitable in the face of the government's anti-trust suit, the industry will seek to end the double bill practice. More money is being spent on shafts than ever before, and Warners and Metro are investing theirs' with considerable originality. One that Metro believes will attract attention is being edited following receipt of the film from James Fitzpatrick, who shot it at the Marine Studios near St Augustine, Fla.
The short will not afford MGM the problem that has been created by the use of similar scenes in the Tarzan picture. The Marine Studio management has requested that due credit be given the institution in the picture, and with Johnny Weissmuller purportedly doing his chest-thumping in Africa, the bud admission that the scenes were Florida-made is liable to be disillusioning.
"Metro likes to think of the short as a documentary picture. It was shot in colour and by natural light, and the cameras were able to penetrate 35 feet below the surface. To give it the proper Hollywood and Florida touch, bathing girls are shown in the tanks with the more harmless of the fish. In this phase the film is not strictly documentary.
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