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By VERNON SCOTT HOLLYWOOD (UPI) In 1912 it cost England a piddling $4 million to build the Titanic, the greatest, safest luxury liner in the world which collided with an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage. In 1980 it cost Sir Lew Grade and his Marble Arch Productions almost 10 times as much $30 million so far to produce "Raise The Titanic!" from Clive Cussler's bestselling novel. A 3/4-inch-to-the-foot, 55-foot-long, 12-foot-high Titanic model cost $375,000 alone. Smaller models brought tire miniature fleet cost to $1 million. When "Raise The Titanic!" ts released this July it will be one of the most expensive films in history, ranking right up there with "Apocalypse N o w , " "1941" and the unreleased "Heaven's Gate" and "The Blues Brothers." The most c o s t l y aspect of the film was building a tank $3.5 million in which the Titanic could be realistically photographed under controlled conditions at the bottom of the ocean. And therein lies an epic tale of movie extravagance. Three years ago Lord Grade paid $500,000 for film rights to the novel. Stanley Kramer took over as producerdirector. Ten months into the project, Kramer exited William Frye, a logical choice, was appointed producer. Frye made "Airport 1977," featuring a jetliner on the bottom of the ocean which is floated to the surface. F r y e w a s immediately confronted by the almost insurmountable problem of determining where to shoot the underwater footage of the model of the ship as it is supposedly resting 12,000 feet under the surface of the Atlantic. To begin with,, the

Titanic model was built and reposed at the CBS Studio Center in the semi-arid San Fernando Valley. The nearest body of water was the totally dry Los Angeles riverbed. "Kramer had planned to film the undersea footage n e a r Long Beach or off the coast of Catalina," said Frye, an urbane and articulate man. "But we couldn't shoot in the ocean at shallow depths because of the fish and plant life.

Canal, and into the tank at Malta. Although built from the original Titanic plans and perfect in every detail, the model more impressive than most yachts was not equipped with power to propel it a single inch. Last October Frye called his friend Antonio D'Amico, an Italian shipping magnate, who agreed to ship the m o d e l , along with smaller models, on the deck of one of his freighters as far as "At 12,000 feet there Naples. The cost: a are no fish or living paltry $150,000. plants. So we had to find a tank big enough "First," said Frye, to hold the model and "we had to get Los make it all look real- Angeles county and city istic." permission to lug our A search of studios in huge model on a truck Hollywood and abroad bed down the freeways was unsuccessful. to the San Pedro docks. It became evident That was a spectacular Marble Arch would operation in itself. have to build its own "At Naples the ship tank. The British com- was transferred to a pany chose Malta where barge and taken to there already was a 200 Malta. Altogether, our by 300-foot, 5-foot deep model had a longer s u r f a c e t a n k (too voyage than the original shallow for i t s Titanic ever had." purposes) overhanging F r y e was further the Mediterranean. confronted by providing Marble Arch then a full-size version of the constructed a deeper Titanic, slimey and round tank 350 feet in rusted, for scenes (with diameter, holding 9 actors aboard) after the million gallons of sea resurfacing. water. The tank, a year "I flew to Athens in the building, is the where there is a ship largest in the world. graveyard with more "It was our biggest than 3,000 old vessels headache and certainly tied up," he said. "The the most expensive el- ships are all from 12 to ement in the film," 20 years old. We found a Frye said. "We suffered relic built in the 1930s delays due to bad and fixed it up to look weather, salinity pro- like the Titanic and then blems and a bad pum- aged it down to make it ping system. We also appear as if it had been spent $150,000 on a on the bottom of the sea turntable at the bottom for 68 years. of the tank that didn't "But we couldn't tow work. We had to write it it to Malta because of off." the insurance. So we For what it's worth, had to tow it about five Marble Arch has "first miles out to sea every refusal" on future use day for our camera of the tank for the next boats. 10 years, in the unlikely "This picture has event Lord Grade is moved to make another taken two years of my life, a year and four underwater movie. months of it in preFrye found himself production before we confronted by another turned a camera. puzzle. How to transport "I'm already putting the 55-foot model from together another film, t h e San F e r n a n d o but I assure you, it will Valley to the Mediter- not have a single frame ranean, via the Panama of underwater footage."

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