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| | Making Movies, 1920 |
 | | Lillian provides this insight in her memoirs published years later as she describes the shooting of one this movie's most famous scenes - the howling blizzard rescue. |
 | | Today, the dramatic rescue on an ice floe during a blizzard would be digitally concocted in a computer while the actors played their roles in a comfortable studio before a "green screen." The two pieces of film would then be combined for the final cut. |
 | | For the climax of the movie, where Anna was to be driven out into the blizzard, stumble onto the river's ice, and faint, I tried to get into condition early with exercise, walks in winter gales, and cold baths. |
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