Show Warner Bros Movie Set Started at Little Hole Production designers and construction construction construction tion chief for the Warner Brothers molion motion mo mo- tion lion picture Crow Killer to be partially par par- holly filmed at Little Hole have moved to Vernal and arc are making preparations to construct scenes for the show TWO INDIAN villages two log cabins cabins cab cab- ins and one early American mountain settlement will be built for the Little Hole set stated Ted Ha I la worth and Russ Huss Menzer production designers for the motion picture Gordon Fletcher is the construction chief All three arc are presently presently pre pre- living in Vernal Site for the film setting is the southwest southwest south south- west side of Green River at Little Hole about yards downstream and across the river from the Little Hole campground campground campground camp camp- ground area Access to this thY area area- has presented a problem since the only road into the area is over Diamond Mountain Mountain Moun Moss tain lain and at the present time is Impassable impassable sable due to snow drifts and storms A SOLUTION to the access production production tion problem is planned to be solved by hiring an amphibious duck to haul building materials and equipment from the Dutch John side of the river liver stated Mr Haworth A foot bridge will be built for workers to get to the other side without taking the mountainous road from the south he stated The Little Hole location is on private property belonging to the Ester Glan estate A location permit contract has been signed by the trustees of the estate es cs tate late and survey stakes ha have ve been laid out ready for Cor immediate construe tion THE SETTLEMENT will Include a merchandise store which will cost cot about 20 to build a logging sa sawmill and anda a tanners store all built along the shores of the Green River niver The settlers and Indians come down the river in their canoes to visit the settlement in the film Production schedules have been set up to finish the Little Hole set construction conjunction by January 1 and start shooting March 1 1 The film w will l be shot partly in Sundance Sun Nun dance near Provo and the rest at I Little ittle Hole The Sundance shooting will start stait about January 15 THE MOVIE MOVI E construction crew trew is looking look ing log for the following materials for the set which they will either buy 01 ot rent weathered long poles Pales 21 to 28 feet in length to set up 20 Indian teepees Also early conestoga wagons in re re- condition other character period per iod heavy wooden wagons and logger lugger sleds corral fencing and sheds that have been abandoned are needed A quantity of aged gray lusher exposed to weather and odd broken lots to be used for Cor fencing is needed Old Oil skin presses for bolting belting raw row skins old barrels trunks and any dressing furniture or working farm tools of the 1850 60 period will be needed at the filming location Anyone having the mentioned men men- ai articles artitles tides is asked to contact a member of the construction constitution crew at the tho Antlers Motel in Vernal MOVIE ACTOR Robert Hobert Redford and movie director Sydney Pollack Po will produce pro pro- duce the film The film Is based on the life lire of Jeremia Johnson who lived Jived in the wilderness of the mountain west westin in the early The story tells te how Mr Johnsons Johnson's wife was killed by a group of Crow Indium Indians and how he took ven- ven Bonce genco by by killing hundreds of the Indians Indians In In- but finally fina becomes a friend of the Crow Indians The basis of the story Is an study of the hardships the courage and the survival aspects of a man alone in the wilderness becoming a total part of oC the environment his loneliness his total lick lack of fear Cear and his essential love for another willing to share the endless mountain reaches The Utah Tourist Council has been ben assisting the movie company in recommending recommending mending possible locations locutions and made the recommendation of the Little Hole site |