Per Fraser-Cavassoni, Lean had arranged for five different cameramen to record the explosion, and he set up an electronic panel with lights denoting which cameras were on. They came for nothing, as the train simply rolled on along the bridge. To commemorate the filming, Spiegel (according to Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni's biography) invited numerous local celebrities like Ceylon's Prime Minister, Solomon Bandaranaike, out to watch it. The movie sees the explosion from multiple different angles, all of which had to be rolling concurrently to capture the bridge (in CinemaScope) blowing up, as well as the collapse of the approaching train. ![]() After all that effort in constructing the bridge, and all the alleged money it cost, David Lean and Sam Spiegel would need explosives.
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