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🗓️ 15 December 2025
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| 0:52.3 | Thank you. Do it the right way with Indeed. It's just before midnight on December 10th, 1938, on a Hollywood backlot in Los Angeles, California. Studio executive David Selsny grips a megaphone and roars out orders across the set. |
| 0:58.7 | He's sitting on top of a 30-foot observation talent, overseeing the first shot of his new production, Gone with the Win. |
| 1:05.7 | David's been trying to get this movie off the ground for years, but even though he's finally about to start shooting, |
| 1:11.1 | he still hasn't found his lead actress. No one in Hollywood quite fits the passionate, |
| 1:16.4 | green-eyed Southern Bell, Scarlett O'Hara. But under pressure from his millionaire backers, |
| 1:21.6 | David has decided that he needs something in the can with or without his leading lady. |
| 1:26.2 | So today, David plans to set fire to some old sets as a backdrop for one of the most |
| 1:30.8 | dramatic sequences in the movie, The Burning of Atlanta. |
| 1:34.4 | Quiet on set! |
| 1:35.4 | From the tower, David lifts his megaphone and barks out his final orders. |
| 1:39.8 | Beside him is the film's director, George Kukor. |
| 1:42.5 | And once David is happy with the preparations, he nods to George, who shouts action. |
| 1:48.4 | Flames race across the set. |
| 1:50.5 | The heat is so intense that even up on his tower, David has to shield his face. |
| 1:54.9 | Then, right on cue, a stunt driver races a horse-drawn carriage through the blaze, dodging smoke and debris. |
| 2:01.5 | Seven, technicolor cameras capture all the action before George shouts cut, and the flames begin to die down. |
| 2:08.9 | David leaps to his feet and heads for the ladder. |
| 2:11.8 | He's delighted. After three years of planning, he's finally got the first shot, and it's a spectacular one. |
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