The internment camp was built in the desert at Palmdale, Ca.In all, we built twenty-five 84’ huts (six with complete interiors); seven 84’ production huts (for electricians, makeup and hair, construction, set dressing, nurse’s first aid station, extras holding etc.); we built four 32’ huts, four moveable huts on trailers; a camouflage factory; two guard towers (moved each night to strategically placed cement foundations); two water towers. We erected forty-six 40’ power poles strung with 12 miles of rope to simulate electrical cable; twenty miles of barbed wire stretched across 3000 feet of fence.
All photos © Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp
Stills photography: Merrick Morton, David Appleby.
Cinematographer: Michael Seresin