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Show Uddresses National Photographers . . . 1 1 J- . "I v i ... ! V- : ' X J L .--. ... 3f .at--. i.i iimrfi n 1n- Glen H. Turner Gen H. Turner Completes Work on Hew Movie; Speaking in Chicago I Glen H. Turner of this city, who is recognized as ! one of the top producers of amateur movies in this 1 j country, is this week addressing the Photographic j Society of America convention be- ' in? held in Chicago, 111. ' With his wife, Mr. Turner left Friday of , g last week for the convention city md expects to be gone about ten days. During his featured address on "Creating a Motion Picture" Mr. Turner will show his latest film feature-length puppetoon, entitled "The Sorcerer of Shad", the making mak-ing of which has occupied much of his spare time during the past , three years. He will explain to the professional photographers assembled, as-sembled, how he goes about to produce the various sound effects for his animated puppet characters. charac-ters. Employed full time as an instructor in-structor of art at the Brigham Young University, Mr. Turner utilizes uti-lizes almost every hour he has off planning some phase of his hobby. His latest film, "The Sorcerer of Shad", is the most pretentious of he has produced .thusfar and it is believed he will receive some attractive offers for this piece of 'ork while in the East. He esti-nites esti-nites that more than 5000 man- I : tours have gone into the making J of his latest film. There are 16 puppets in the pic-e pic-e all carved from balsa wood. "We is also a ship with every "Mute detail and many other 'ems hand-made especially for we production. Each of the pup-Ws pup-Ws has about 26 moving parts. r. Turner has composed his own story for the picture and the pup-P? pup-P? literally say the words. Orig-l Orig-l music is also included in the auction, together with other sound effects. ' Mr. Turner has been assisted in wme of the work by Rell Francis T Mark Larsen, close friends, have become interested in "wteur movie making since goin i several picture taking expedi-Uo"s expedi-Uo"s with Mr. Turner, ."evious movies made by Mr. vner, while not nearly so elab-ate elab-ate as the present one, have , . n national honors and recogni-In recogni-In 1951, he became the first , in the United States to' ( Pture the coveted Hyrum Percy im memorial award for the -ond time with his "In Fancy e shown in New York City. 194Q flrst ertry was made in Dav'With the film "ne Summer f0' a 350-foot 8 mm color film, In ids h he received top honors, tion an 80-foot color produc-"16 produc-"16 mm film- entitled "The arnm!er' Was awarded a place C s e top 10 entries and he kistn the first contestant in the to to- f the 26-year-old league fil in J'oth on 8 mm and 16 mm enter latest film- is not being ; Mr V" comPetition. ment: Turner has been experi-shw experi-shw & w'th and making movies ' Prodi, ? ut 1947 and his latest IPeri combines profitable ex-' art a.Se with his fine talent of tanl genius. |