Furthermore, the soldiers of the time were typically trained to chamber individual rounds during the bulk of the fighting, utilizing this magazine cutoff, and maintaining the magazine as a reserve of ammunition. The Lebel is so equipped (as is the Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk.III, Springfield M1903, and Krag-Jorgenson rifles and carbines). This would also be appropriate given the frantic nature of the attack, another possible explanation is that it was not uncommon for rifles of the period to have a magazine cut-off.
Also, the grip safety spur is shorter than on the A1 while the actual trigger itself is longer)., M1928 Thompson submachine gun, sawed-off shotgun, Lebel M1886 (only during the French Foreign Legion battle) Normally these rifles hold eight rounds, but the ones used in the movie appear to be reloaded after every shot l It seems likely that, as the full loading process is so slow, it was simply faster and easier for the actors to fire one round at a time. Maybe if the ejector rod has been pulled back and the loading gate is open, all he has to do is to point the loading gate downwards,using the force of gravity and cylinder spinning to make sure all cartridges are ejected, his arsenal also includes a Winchester 1897 shotgun, a Colt M1911-a period authentic pre-1924 M1911, not an M1911A1 (noted by the lack of a curved mainspring housing and no relief cuts around the trigger guard on the frame. The revolvers O'Connell carries throughout the movie are model 1873 Chamelot-Delvigne 11mm often dual-wielding them with a unique way of loading them by spinning the cylinders. This set was 600 feet (183 m) in length and featured "a steam train, an Ajax traction engine, three cranes, an open two-horse carriage, four horse-drawn carts, five dressing horses and grooms, nine pack donkeys and mules, as well as market stalls, Arab-clad vendors and room for 300 costumed extras". Another large set was constructed in the United Kingdom on the dockyard at Chatham which doubled for the Giza Port on the River Nile.
These sets took 16 weeks to build, and included fiberglass columns rigged with special effects for the movie's final scenes.
You would never think of entering the crater unless you knew what was inside that volcano." A survey of the volcano was conducted so that an accurate model and scale models of the columns and statues could be replicated back at Shepperton Studios, where all of the scenes involving the underground passageways of the City of the Dead were shot. Out in the middle of the desert you would never see it. Stephen Sommers liked the location because, "A city hidden in the crater of an extinct volcano made perfect sense. Production designer Allan Cameron found a dormant volcano near Erfoud where the entire set for Hamunaptra could be constructed.