"After completing all the inside scenes, they then started on the exteriors, traveling many miles each day and erecting their tents in a different locale each night." They had come to Death Valley, according to the 11 December 1915 Moving Picture World, because the recently late Frank Norris, author of the novel McTeague, had stipulated in his contract with the film company that the book's Death Valley scenes had to be filmed in the real Death Valley and not "faked" in the studio. From the station they rode by mule more than twenty miles to the mines, where for the next week or more they filmed in the pits. Scott was their guide in Death Valley while they filmed McTeague of San Francisco. "They were met there by Death Valley Jim Scott and the famous twenty-mule team from the Borax mines. The 11 December 1915 Moving Picture World reported that director Barry O'Neill, Holbrook Blinn, Fania Marinoff, and twenty other crew and cast members arrived near Death Valley, CA, with full provisions and camping gear via the Union Pacific at a town whose railroad station also served as post office, general store and saloon. added that after the Death Valley exteriors and Fort Lee interiors were "practically completed," director O'Neill "decided to elaborate certain sections of the story" in the mining region of Birmingham, AL, and then "go. Filming of what was then being called McTeague of San Francisco was currently underway at World Film's Fort Lee, NJ, studios, according to the 27 November 1915 Moving Picture World.
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