Filming "Greed," summer of 1923
When silent-film director Erich Von Stroheim took his cast and crew into Death Valley in August and September of 1923, as reported at the time by the Inyo Independent, “[t]he temperature was 130 degrees by a properly shaded thermometer, and the heat radiation from the scorching, sun-baked sand of the desert made the trousers of the men so hot as far up as their knees that many were compelled to wrap bandages around their calves to keep the cloth from touching the skin.”
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