It was filmed over a six-week period in the Lake Tahoe, CA area at Emerald Bay.One of the main characters in the dance was credited as the Corn Queen (Mary Loos).During the scene, a Native-American and the Corn Queen danced on a gigantic drum or tom-tom as it was twirled around by other costumed dancers and participants." She then touched his sensitive face and kissed him on his harelip.While in her presence, he said he had work to do - watching a videotape (without sound) of the next family he was plotting to murder, as she edged closer to him on the sofa.(It had already been spotted on Lovegood""s necklace, in the children""s book, on he Peverell grave at Godric""s Hollow, and in Harrys"" vision outside Gregorovitch""s Wand Shop.]The 74 minute film was a box-office failure, due to the advent of the "talkies" a year before, but its indelible images yet remain..." Her idea was to give Mitch a gift of something hat would remind him of her (from their encounter in the shop and his labeling of her as a bird in a gilded cage) - and possibly to avenge his insulting treatment.