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Show THEp Wednesday, November 1, 1978 NBC Orders Sunn Series The National Broadcasting Broad-casting Company has ordered or-dered "Stories from the Bible" from Utah based Sunn Classic Pictures as a 1979 mid-season replacement series it was announced by Sunn President, Charles E. Sellier, Jr. The new series will push Sunn's current total contracted orders from NBC to over $23 million. NBC made the mini-series decision after previewing the first completed segments of a special mini-series now being filmed in Utah and Arizona. The biblical stories covered by the mini-series include "David and Goliath." "Solomon." "Moses," and "Noah," and feature such familiar names as Hugh O'Brien, Lew Ayres, Robert Culp, John Caradine and Joseph Cam-panella. Cam-panella. Sunn will receive over $10 million for the two "Bible" projects, much of 1 which will stay in Utah as direct production expenditures. expen-ditures. The first 8 hours will air as an NBC special during National Bible Week in November. In addition to "Stories from the Bible," Sunn is currently filming a series of fourteen two-hour special movies entitled "Classics Illustrated" for NBC with contracted revenues set at Slower Growth The onset of a recession prior to mid-1979 is unlikely, although real economic growth will slow to 2 and one-half to 3 percent, said Donna Dearden, Manager and Assistant Vice President, Presi-dent, quoting the First Security Se-curity Bank News Letter. Published this week, the News Letter is edited by Dr. Kelly K. Matthews, vice president and economist for First Security. A recession is increasingly possible in the second half of the year, the News Letter said, as policymakers policy-makers tenuously balance efforts to decelerate inflation and support the dollar without with-out stifling the pace of economic growth. The incentive of the $18.7 billion tax cut effective January 1, 1979, essentially will be counterbalanced by rising social security taxes and the effects of inflation, expected next year to remain re-main near 8 percent, according accord-ing to the News Letter. While spending cuts were made in the fiscal 1979 federal budget, progress toward restraining inflation can be made only if further reductions occur, the News Letter warned. To reduce inflation, the government must avoid disruptive wage and price controls and alleviate alle-viate regulations which limit productivity wni restrain capital investment. Higher interest rates reflecting re-flecting efforts by the Federal Reserve to slow the rate of monetary increase-rose increase-rose significantly in Septem-, ber, while demand remained high. The real cost of money is cheap whenever interest rates are near or below the inflation rate; such inflationary infla-tionary pressures over , the next nine months will be the primary determinant of when or at what level interest rates will peak, the First Security publication reported. Utah's rate of growth has leveled off somewhat recently; re-cently; however, it is still ahead of the national economy econ-omy and is expected to remain favorable throughout the end of the year. The state's population as of June 1978 was 1,317, 000-a 3.6 percent gain on the mid-year 1977 total. The September unemployment unemploy-ment rate of 5 percent, however, was the lowest in 8 and one-half years as jobs in mining, contract construction construc-tion and manufacturing registered re-gistered gains. The state's fourth-quarter forecast is for increased industrial output and a continuing tight labor market. Fourth-quarter coal production pro-duction in the state is expected to be near the record third-quarter increase in-crease of 21 percent. Third-quarter Third-quarter building permits for new dwelling units kept pace with those of a year ago, while permit valuation for non-residential construction rose significantly over the same 1977 period. Retail sales in Utah are expected to be favorable in the fourth quarter, after third-quarter gains of 15 percent over the corresponding correspond-ing y(gl)M4ftfe,sThroigh yeaftndUi&oflf6Bilei sales are expected to improve from the sharp decline reported in August. The News Letter said that real personal income, after accounting for- inflation, should rise 5 and three-quarter three-quarter percent this year. Based on income generation genera-tion in 1977, Utah's construction construc-tion industry continued to be the state's, fastest growing individual sector, with all sectors except government experiencing gains in income. over $12 million. One of the shows. "The California Gold Rush," is now being filmed in Utah's Wasatch and Summit Counties and preproduction activities have begun on another, "Nelly Bly," to be filmed in the Salt Lake City area. Two completed "Classic Illustrated" movies, "'The Last of the Mohicans." and "The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race" have already aired on NBC and received "High" ratings. Filmed in Utah last spring. "Time Machine" is the next Classic to air. It will be seen November 5 on NBC. In September, Sunn completed com-pleted for NBC another $1.6 million mini-series entitled "Mark Twain's America." The series dramatizes the lives of famous Americans including the Wright Brothers, Abraham Lincoln. Thomas Edison, and Will Rogers. The Twain shows were filmed primarily in Sunn's new backlot location in Wasatch County and feature many well-known talents such as Brock Peters, Andrew Prine, Michael Callan, Jack Elam, and Rosemary DeCamp. Scores of extras and technical talents were drawn from local Utah areas for the filming. Sunn's prime time family hour television production schedule will extend into 1979 with more than $11 million in projects back ordered. or-dered. Sunn will supplement next year's TV production schedule with several feature theatrical movie productions. They normally film 2-3 feature theatrical films each year. Sellier slated that "most people are surprised to hear that our Utah company is currently the single largest supplier of 'family hour' prime time product to network television and this extremely-heavy extremely-heavy production schedule does not include our production produc-tion activities tor theatrical films." Sunn employs more than 300 out of their Salt Lake City corporate offices and Park City production facilities. 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