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by Michael H. Price and George E. Turner
Pictures was formed in 1921 with direc¬
Henry King and star Richard Barthelmess as princi¬
pals. The founders' prestige proved collateral enough to
ensure adequate financing and a release agreement with
United Artists. Silent successes for Inspiration included
nspiration

tor

Tofable

David, The Bright Shawl, The Fighting Blade,

The White Sister, The Enchanted Cottage, Resurrection,
Ramona and Stella Dallas. Its initial talking picture, She
Goes to War,

was

released in

1929.

King chose

next a

currently popular novel, "Out of the Night" by Rida
Johnson Young, as the basis for the film called Hell
Harbor. This was an appropriate choice, for the Vir¬
ginia-bred King was unsurpassed in his depiction of re¬
gional themes and picaresque characters.
Inspiration was headquartered at TecArt Studio, a rental lot on Melrose Avenue in Holly¬
wood, near Paramount's main gate. The venerable stu¬
dio, which was built in 1916 in a lemon orchard, is still
in operation as Raleigh Studio, and the Inspiration of¬
fices (which have been renovated considerably) are still
occupied - by a much younger company. When he set
out to make Hell Harbor, King checked out of the stu¬
dio and stayed away for some 15 weeks, determined to
prove the practicality of making a talking feature in its
entirety at a far-off location.
King referred to Hell Harbor as "a
little tale about five people with as much weight as the

34

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Cinematographer

plot of Slightly Dishonorable." It proved
deal

to

be

a great

more.

The picture was filmed entirely at
Rocky Point, the palm-fringed tip of a narrow, rocky
peninsula extending two miles into the ocean near
Tampa, Florida. King picked the site after a 10,000 mile
scouting trip along the Western, Southern and South¬
eastern

Haas,

coasts.

to

He then

the point

sent

his

art

director, Robert

to plan settings.
Haas (1887-1962), an

architect from
Newark, had joined Famous Players-Lasky (forerunner
of Paramount) in 1920 as art supervisor of their New
York studio and later designed sets in Italy and New
York for Inspiration. In 1927, he relocated in Holly¬
wood
to

to

work for the William Fox Studio. He returned

work with

Henry King in

1929,

with She Goes

to

War.

Although his work in silent films was distinguished
by such pictorial classics as Fury, White Sister and
Romola, he is best remembered for the

numerous films
he designed at Warner Bros, between 1930 and 1950.
These include The Black Legion, Jezebel, The Maltese

Falcon, Strawberry Blonde and The Glass Menagerie, to
name a

few.
Haas's methods

At

were

not

ordinary.

Rocky Point, he carved a scale-model of the village
from soap. Enlisting the aid of Albert S. D'Agostino
(1893-1970), then an assistant art director at MGM, but

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