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Show 'On location' is now here in Pleasant Grove dence," on the back. I thought that was kind of cute. But when I asked him about it, he said it was the name of a movie they had done, "Inadmissable Evidence," which had been on TV the week before. I felt dumb because I had not even heard of it. They changed the name on our window to read "American River ' Daily Record, 25,000 circulation serving the Tri-County area since 1947. Jane Robinson came by and saw i -A double-take, and then asked if Brett had sold the paper. They left the name on the window win-dow and the new lights up for a few days until they were sure they were not going to have to do retakes. It has been kind of fun, all in all. BnJOW; f6 have t0 do is wait and watch for our little town to be seen on TV. We'll be famous! By MARCELLA WALKER There was all kinds of excitement excite-ment in Pleasant Grove last week as NBC was here to film a movie, "American River," which they hope will be the pilot for a new series. Everyone was so nice and helpful. help-ful. It was a unique experience, too. I gathered up my courage when Claude Akins arrived in the midst of all the filming and asked him if I could take his picture. He said, "Sure, where do you want me to stand." I took his picture pic-ture and then he sauntered over and began to talk to the several police officers who were on duty at the expense of NBC. The officers asked if he would pose for a picture with them and he iid. It wasnotlongbeforeathrongof autograph-seekers crowded around Mr. Akins and he obliged them all. It was fun to see all these movie people and extras dressed up in furs and warm winter clothes on such a warm day. They shucked their coats as soon as they could. Onethingthatreallythrilledme was to see a beautiful Russian Wolfhound whicli was used in the movie. I had never seen one of these dogs before in real life and it was gorgeous. I heard that they cost a fortune. Some of our local folks were i extras who walked up and down j thesidewalkoncue.Theydoalotof j sitting around but they wereenjoy- ing it. j One thing that I was really I happy about was that Jack Pace, the owner of P. G. Printers, was p.y. blah asked to be an extra when they were filming in his shop. He was Lester. I don't think he spoke any lines. He just looked up when they called out, "Lester," and gave them a smile. A few weeks ago, a man who goes out ahead to find locations to film the movie came into our office ' and looked around. He later called back and said they would like to use it for filming the scenes which take place in the small town newspaper office. Jack told them it was alright. They also filmed at Vector Video, Intermountain Craft, Beacon Finance, Fi-nance, and will film at Christensen's Department Store, here in Pleasant Grove. They filmed in other locations in the Salt Lake and Provo area also. Huge trailers were parked in the library parking lot. These were used for power, restrooms for the actors, dressing rooms and makeup ma-keup areas. Being new to the business, I was entranced to see how many technicians techni-cians and how much equipment it takes to film. While they were at our office, they spent a considerable length of time using the standins while they set up the focus, the lighting, the various shots, etc. When the actual filming began with the real actors and actresses, we had to be quiet and not move after they called out "Quiet! Roll the Camera." Sometimes they would call out for the background to move so the extras would walk down the sidewalk side-walk or the cars would drive down the street. When they were filming inside, they put all kinds of covers up to the doors and windows to keep the light from getting in. I guess it all has to be done with artificial lighting. light-ing. They put all new fluorescent lights in our office. They said that the ones we had gave off a green light and they couldn't use those. So they used a new type that was developed for growing plants and vegetables. The man in charge of lighting said it was a good thing these kind of lights were invented because they were a real asset to the movie industry. People were positioned out on the street with walkie-talkies so that they knew when to keep people from walking down the street or when to start them walking. walk-ing. We saw how they placed a microphone micro-phone on the performers when they were in outside scenes. They put a belt aroun d their waist which had a power pack in it. The microphone was usually fastened to their shirt in a place where it could not be seen. Theyhadsetupa chow wagon on the west side of the fire station. They had everyone in the movie go over there to eat lunch. Mayor David Holdaway, other council members, police officers, etc. were invited to eat there! Claude Akins even served them! Everyone thought he was a pretty neat guy. In fact, all of the people connected con-nected with the movie were friendly and helpful. It was fun to talk to them. They sometimes would only have to film one scene a few times. Some others took a little longer. Once in a while the director stopped the action right after it started for one reason or another Speaking of the director, I got to observe him for a few minutes when he was in our office. He looked around, sizing up the place. All the time you could see those wheels just a spinning in his head as his creative mind worked out the scenes the way he wanted them to be. He had a kind of far-away look in his eyes. He wore one of those little flat caps like golfers wear, just like in the movies. Th ey h ad th ose ch air s, too, th at had names of the stars or director or just the name of the movie written writ-ten on them. One man who was one of the technicians had a sweatshirt on that read, "Inadmissable Evi- |