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Ju'i'-'i"- j-D slNY OF THEM Barbara I den who is co-starring in Para-I Para-I Jnfg "Fade-In," currently filming I Nation here, celebrated htr birth-sa' birth-sa' at the Desert Lodge Motel last urday night. Joining her in the I Cities were her co-star, Bart Key- Here-, Louis Brandt, first assistant director di-rector for Fade-In, escorts mini-clad Joanna Pettet, star of Blue, to airport terminal. Jud Taylor, Fade-In director, direct-or, in white cap, discusses scene with cast members. Canyonlands Airport was a buzz of activity Friday when the first scene of Paramount's new movie, Fade In was filmed. It was hard to sort the Hollywood stars from Mo-abites Mo-abites and tourists congregated congre-gated to watch the filming film-ing activities. There were a few obvious exceptions, though, Ike Joanna Pettet She was very Hollywood in a brilliant yeEow mini dress that probably sent the teenagers, scurrying home, for their scissors. Burt Reynolds was more in character for Southeastern Southeas-tern Utah. In western hat and jeans he looked the part of the rancher he portrays in the picture. The role of a Utah, rancher ran-cher is unique for Mr. Reynolds. He has been portraying Indians for the past several years. His latest la-test movie, "Navajo Joe" will be released next month. mon-th. He is quite excited about" ab-out" doing Fade ' In. It's quite a challenge to do a story sans violence and sex, he said. Fade In is a love story concerning two people of completely opposite oppo-site backgrounds. Plenty .of Hard Work Jack Stone, make-up artist, ar-tist, set up shop at a built-in built-in salon on the outside oC one of the mobile dressing rooms. He worked on the plane all the way from Hollywood getting stars made up for the shooting session. This is a new trend in location work, he notes. Once there was time to relax and get established es-tablished in a town before nolds, left, and James Hampton, who also has a leading role in the film. Host" for the event, with all the cast and crew members attending, was Jud Taylor, right, who is directing the Judd Bernard-Silvio Narizzano production. pro-duction. , going to work. Now the high cost of filming has taken the leisure out of movie making. Barbara Loden, star of the film, was his first customer. Mr.' Stone applied ap-plied a makebase that looked pink but was actually ac-tually blue, green, and red, and promised to let T-I readers in on the secrets sec-rets of his trade later. Miss Loden has been in Moab several days. Her two sons, Leo and Marco, took in the Fourth of July celebration and were thrilled thrill-ed when they won a dime apiece in a sack race at Moab City Park. A Big Crowd A large group of Moab-ites Moab-ites waited at the airport terminal to go to work as extras ,in the film. Lucille Robertson, Betty Walter-schled, Walter-schled, Dwaine Wimimer, Jack Olearain, and Betty Stanton were among those present. Former Moabite, Gery Chapin, of Houston, Tex., was there. She came to Moab for a summer visit with her mother, Mrs. Margie Shafer, and landed land-ed the role of Miss Loden's standin for the film. Several Moab businessmen business-men coperated with the studio for the first movie scene, which depicted passengers pas-sengers deplaning at Canyonlands Can-yonlands Airport. The group included Jack West, a station owner; Nonman Boyd, local barber; Realtor Real-tor Ray Branscom, Jr.; accountant Ed Claus, and an assortment " of other business representatives N. S. Christensen, Curtis Robertson, Fred Stoye, Joe Dowd, Dave Bailey, Rod Phillips, and Tom Ossana. They all patiently went up and down the plane ramp until the scene was deemed deem-ed perfect by the directors. There were several Moab Mo-ab tourists on hand for the filming. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Winbray and son, of Oklahoma City, took time from their tours of the Canyon country for their first glimpse of movie making. They . came to Moab after hearing that Southeastern Utah was the most beautiful part of the United States. The stories were not over-rated, they said. Much Equipment A lot goes into a brief movie scene. Jim Maxwell, Paramount's transportation transportat-ion manager, pointed out almost a dozen pieces of equipment in use. There was the "stretchout," "stretch-out," the long black 4-seat passenger car; a grip truck to haul reflectors, Gchos (black shades to baffle light), etc.; another truck for electrical equipment equip-ment and the company's pwer plant. There were also two mobile air conditioned condi-tioned dressing rooms. Fade In executives lounged loun-ged at ease until the chartered char-tered plane arrived, when they started the work rolling. roll-ing. Script Supervisor Hazel Ha-zel Hall began recording her notes. She is responsible respons-ible for the continuity of the filming scenes. Production Pro-duction Manager Jack Cor-rick. Cor-rick. First Assistant Du ec.tor T.ouis Brandt, and Director Jud Taylor held a last-minute consultation. Mr. Taylor was pleased that Moabites were so excited ex-cited about the movie which will be filmed in and cut of the city. "It's a marvelous opportunity to show off their country in a contemporary setting," set-ting," he said, "and let the world know it's much more than cowboys and Indians." |