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Show V-'""i. C ' - . ;" vW ' lnT-1 ' ' 'U ' ' ' - ' ' ' .- .v:-.:.- irv - - . L k;ri -.r. i ,s;; v . ' ' . ' :" - t j ' 4 South African Camraman-Director Ashley Lazarus explains desired action for film to Mitch Williams during shooting this week on the Shafer Trail. The firm was in Moab for a special series for television advertising. South African Film Crew Working in Moab Area A.K.A. Film Studios of Capetown, South Africa arrived ar-rived in Moab this past weekend to get scenes of the Canyon Country. The firm representatives and technicians came here to make two stories on film, stated camerman and director, direc-tor, Ashley Lazarus, but after af-ter seeing the photographic potential, decided to make four with the possibility of a fifth. Unit Producer Darry Williams and Art Director Jan Mostert are in Moab also al-so for the filming. The film studio is making short stories based on the western scenery around Moab. Mo-ab. Director Lazarus sa:d the type of commercial they have been using in Africa involves in-volves the portraying of adventure ad-venture sequences, with the name of the sponsor of the program added later. In this case the sponsor is the manufacturer man-ufacturer of Paul Revere cigarettes, a well known firm on the African continent. Lazarus said the firm representatives rep-resentatives came to the. United States to find locations loca-tions for shooting western scenes. They had not known about the possibilities of southeastern Utah until they talked with Chauneey Pow-is., Pow-is., Director of Informatio'i for the Utah Department of Highways in Salt Lake City. Powis referred the group to Mitch Williams of Moab who lined up the organization organiza-tion for local shooting. Williams Wil-liams transported the director direc-tor and his assistants into various areas around Moab in his four-wheel drive units. Tiie A.K.A. Studio personnel decided on locations along the Shafer Trail and on the White Kim, one of the stories stor-ies being shot on Musselman Arch, another sequence being be-ing at the foot of Dead Horse Point. , Seven local cowboys were employed by the company fur the western type sequences. se-quences. In addition to Wil-l:ams Wil-l:ams were Karl Tangrci and B'b Shape, owners and ojerators of Bob's Trail Hides, who supplied some 3) head of horses for the filming. film-ing. The other cowboys riding tins week for the film makers mak-ers are George tAugie) Stuohm, Dick Tidweil, Carl Mayberry and Buckshot Dal-ton. Dal-ton. "These men are really great." stated Director Asa-ley Asa-ley Lazarus. He added that he was so sold on the riding ai.d acting abilities of the men he found here that he may go ahead and make a full length feature on them in tliis area. Lazarus also had much to say about t!v scenery of southeastern Utah and how excellent it is for making this tpe of film. |