Word: quos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a decade of dickering for the rights, Metro was filming Quo Vadis? (Where Are You Going?), Henry Sienkiewicz' flamboyant old (1895) novel of Nero's Rome. Filmed three times before on a much smaller scale (once by the French and twice by the Italians), Quo...
...progress. Hunting and haggling through Italy since 1948, Henigson had collected enough costumes to outfit a small army, enough animals to stock a zoo. He had bought 12,480 yards of specially dyed material to be made into togas, had cornered 10,000 pieces of gold-plated jewelry for Quo Vadis' 5,000 extras. From Roman shoemakers, he had ordered 6,250 pairs of handmade sandals, and from the women of the Italian Alps, several hundred silky-haired wigs. For the circus scenes in Quo Vadis, there would be six fighting bulls, a stable of horses to pull...
...Henigson's worst headaches was taking over Rome's giant (148 acres) film city, Cinedtta, for the actual shooting of Quo Vadis. A German army barracks during the war, Cinedtta had been stripped of all electrical equipment, and its sound stages had been smashed and gutted. A hurry call for Metro's own big generator went out to Hollywood and the Italian government lent two more from the torpedoed battleship Vittorio Veneto...
...cameras began panning through the early scenes last week, $3,000,000 had already been spent on Quo Vadis and 50,000 people had got in on the handout. Some estimated that the cost would hit $9,000,000 before the film is ready for release late...
...farmers did themselves proud: less than 1% of the world's population, they produced food for nearly half of the world. But there was a bill attached. As the farmer's production went up, so did his profits-and his prices. As the quid pro quo for his vote for vitally needed wartime price controls, the Farm Bloc Congressmen got even higher parity prices and a law decreeing that they would be extended without letup for two years after hostilities ended...