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Show Students Invited to Participate In Paramount Press Conference Utah's high school journalists journa-lists will have the opportumty to meet and work with film correspondents from all over the world during the World Premiere in Salt Lake City of Paramount Pictures' new Technicolor wester production "Blue." filmed last summer nt Moab. To explore the im-pict im-pict f'lm-making is having on the Utah economv. the Industrial Indus-trial Promotion Board is. snonsoring a writing contest and nress conference for high school newsmen and women, at the invitation of their principals prin-cipals and advisors. Several students from Grand countv h'gh school will attend, according to Marjorie Don-orhup. Don-orhup. journalism advisor. The press conference, to he held at 3 n m.. Anril 23. at the Hotel Utah, will feature stars and evpputives from "Blue " In add;tion. Gov. Calvin L. Ramnton's press secretarv, Ron Swenson. will discuss the imnortance of the film industry indus-try to Utah. Following the nress conference, confer-ence, the students will write articles for their respective publications. Articles will be turned over to the Utah Industrial In-dustrial Promotion Board for later iudcing bv the University Univer-sity of Utah Department of Journalism. Prizes will be $50 U. S. Savings Bonds to the two first place winners. Thev will also receive, along with the next twenty runners up,-free up,-free tickets to the movie. "Blue" is the first movie ever filmed and edited entirely entir-ely in Utah. Hollywood has used Utah settings for many films over the past thirty years and in 1967, six major films were made in this i State. The Industrial Promotion Promo-tion Board announced that the film industry and related bus-inesses bus-inesses now add about $8 million mil-lion to Utah's economy annually. an-nually. "Blue" and another film, "Fade In," both made in Moab, paid out about $500 thousand in payrolls alone in Utah last year. |