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Frankly My Dear, Here Are Some ‘Gone with the Wind’ Facts You Should Know About

5. They set a real inferno to film the burning of Atlanta

One of the first Gone with the Wind scenes to be shot was the burning of Atlanta. Of course there was no CGI back in those days, so in order to capture a realistic blaze, MGM burned down the remnants of some old movie sets, including one used on King Kong. The flames engulfed 40 acres and reached over 500 feet high. More than 15,000 gallons of water were used to douse the inferno. It was all spectacularly captured on seven Technicolor cameras.

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