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Show Xfonriv' Or U,- - o ooi ) Page 8 University Journal 13 Monday, October 8, 2012 Arc talks past Utah films I j I SHANEAL FRYER UNIVERSITY JOURNAL Jim Darc, curator of the BYU Motion Picture archive, gave a presentation entitled When Hollywood Came to Cedar City Thursday morning during a Convocation. DArc discussed Cedar Citys history in the movie making business during the last century. By TIMOTHY MORHISE tmornsesuunews.com Shots of the pastoral Utah landscape seen in musicals and westerns were aimed to help audiences see it fresh for the first time at Thursdays Convocation: When Hollywood Came to Cedar City. Jim DArc, author of the book When Hollywood Came to Town: The History of Moviemaking in Utah, delivered the Convocation, using clips from classic films like Can't Help Singing, Butch Cassidy, The Sundance Kid and Proud Rebel. said DArc the thought it fresh from the first seeing time came from when Paul Newmans character rides down Utahs Virgin River in Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. DArc said upon the films release at his age 18 or 19 years, he didnt like it. As an old movie buff from my very early years I loved the traditional Hollywood western, he said. I thought they played it too fast and loose. There was too much comedy and not enough good western. I thought, how could they do this? DArc would later see the film much differently. Now though, I see it in the context of the evolution and the changing in Hollywood and its a wonderful film to watch, he said. Very creative. Very innovative. It just didnt strike the lover of old SUDOKU Hollywood movies as the way to go with the American western. As a precursor to movies like Butch Cassidy, DArc spoke of the early 1900s and the Parry brothers, who piqued filmmakers interest in Utah's landscapes by sending out overhead photographs shot from a plane. DArc specifically recognized the eldest, Chauncey Parry, as the prime mover. Chaunceys involvement in bringing Hollywood to Cedar City broke ground for the film industrys growing utilization of Utah in movie-makinDArc went on to say that movies like Thelma and Louise or John Carter all owe something to Cedar City and Chauncey Parry. Braydee Johnson, a junior prenursing major from Springville noted how the films age did give a new perspective to the Utah landscape. Cause the films were older, so a lot of those places I havent seen in that way, she said. Abbey Larsen, a sophomore theater major from Cedar City, enjoyed the clips, partially out of a love for old movies. (Im) kind of sucker for them. she said. They dont have any of the special effects they have nowadays so everything is more live and real, whereas now there are still amazing movies being made but you dont know if theyre being CGld or something like that. One featured clip from the 1944 musical, Can't Help Singing, g. ,, m 1 I T) For more on this story, go to suunews.com. u' Vote Cyztitirtijns accqititi until: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 ORIENTATION LEADER C co-st- ar o. I I (JC&. featured a woman breaking out in swelling choruses whilst Cedar Breaks. overlooking Larsen started joking about the lack af railings when she saw it. Well at first I was thinking she's going to fall off the cliff if she goes too far, she said. Evet now we can see this and it hasnt changed and it still has this majestic beauty about it. Larsen was among the many students and community members who would later that day attend the American Southwest Classic Film Festival at the Heritage Theater. The festival featured a showing of Proud Rebel, one of the films DArc cited during the Convocation. Cedar City events coordinator Byron Linford said this years American Southwest Classic Film Festival aims to start an annual tradition with aims to expand. Before ' Proud Rebel showed, DArc sat down to interview David Ladd, star of Proud Rebel, as the son of main character John Chandler (played by Ladds late father Alan Ladd). The two joked about what the filming was like as a child. The conversation included working with King the Wonder Dog, learning sign language for the part, Ladds Olivia de (play)date with Havilland, the short temper of director Michael Curtiz and how it felt to work as a child actor. o nCOf n S fryt t NUMBER OF STUDENT INVOLVEMENT AND LEADERSHIP Ctlanc& $1,500 SCHOLARSHIP APPLIED TO STUDENT ACCOUNT AT THE BEGINNING OF FALL 2013, $150 FOR FOOD IN BUCKS IN SUMMER POSITIONS: APPLICATIONS ARE ONLINE ON TBIRD CONNECTION IN YOUR MY3UU PORTAL. 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