While the film was still in production, David O. Selznick wanted to evaluate an audience's response to it. Months before the official gala premiere, the movie was given an unannounced "sneak" preview screening in a small theater in Riverside, some distance outside Los Angeles. The theater was scheduled to show Beau Geste (1939). At this time, many elements of the film were still unfinished, including the opening titles and musical scoring by Max Steiner. For this sneak preview, the studio quickly filmed a "makeshift" opening title sequence. These opening credits, which still survive, show a woman's hand turning the pages of a large book with colorful drawings of Southern scenes accompanied by printed text of the opening credits, accompanied by the opening title music from Selznick's own production of Il prigioniero di Zenda (1937) (music by Alfred Newman).

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