This photograph gives a much better view of the exotic Treasure Island with sandy beaches and palm trees.

Quite an impressive shot – and just shows the ingenuity of the Denham staff making the dammed lake at Denham into that mystical tropical island. Very impressive as is the colour.

Back to the filming schedule as reported on 10 August 1950

Sea shanties and ocean waves were the feature of this week’s filming when a break in the weather caused the unit to concentrate on interior shooting.

Excellent progress was made on the detailed settings which reproduced the Below- Deck Hispaniola. The sound of creaking timbers and the rise and fall of the distant horizon as provided by the unit’s new Horizon-graph helped provide a realistic background rousing singing of the pirate crew.

After the deluge might well described the set later in the week scenes of huge waves pouring through the foc’sle and companion way were filmed with the aid of a cunningly contrived water shute high up in the roof.

Equally deft was the manner in which the first mate Arrow played by David Davies is ‘lost’ at sea by Long John Silver. A plate of plum duff and free access to the rum bottle paves the way for his hasty exit from this life in the turbulent seas.

Walt Disney returned from the Continent on Saturday and is spending the week at the studio on finsl conference with producer Perce Pearce, his production executive Fred Leahy and Director Byron Haskin before sailing on August 13th for America and his Hollywood Studio.

Scenes BELOW = see above

Long John Silver feeds Mr Arrow and fills him full of rum before helping him climb the steps from below-deck as the water from the heavy seas poured into the Hispaniola

Mr Arrow – played by David Davies did not survive