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Title: "Carnival Queen" set
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: This photograph shows part of the set for "Carnival Queen" starring Dorothea Kent, at the Universal Pictures Company lot. To obtain realism in rain sequences, more than 50,000 gallons of water were distributed through 25 tall sprinkling towers. Studio worken are shown here preparing the equipment for rain effects in close-ups of Dorothea Kent, standing the doorway of the car (center foreground).
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00013652
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA (9330); Moving pictures-Studios-Universal.
CARL0000020696
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/86194
Subject: Kent, Dorothea,--1917-1990
Universal Pictures Company
Motion picture studios--California--Universal City
Universal City (Calif.)

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