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New Travel Film
By Glenn Mays
Travel Editor
RALEIGH - North
Carolina’s new travel film,
“North Carolina: A Special
Kind of Splendor” is 28
minutes of scenic beauty,
action, history, festivals and
a host of other topics put into
a neat package.
The finished product,
however, doesn’t show some
of the unusual asides that
producers and film makers
experiences along the way.
“There were some trials
«nd tribulations in making
this film,” said Grady
Jefferys, co - producer of the
film. “But all in all it was a
real joy. I think anyone
would have to be considered
jaded if they did not enjoy
putting North Carolina on
film as we had the op
portunity to do.”
Some of the “trials”
which Jefferys related could
have turned into tragedies
but ended on less than tragic
notes.
Cinematographers Jere
Snyder and Jim Cando of
Take One Productions of
Raleigh, who combined with
Jefferys in putting together
the film, will long
remember some of their
experiences as they
crisscrossed the state at
least ten times each in just a
few shorjt months.
While filming a sunset in a
remote spot in North
Carolina’s mountains the
camera fell over. Snyder
managed to save the
camera from any damage
as it fell against a large
boulder but it was at the
expense of a broken finger.
Despite being in the remote
spot along he managed to
get his equipment back to
his van and continue his
work.
On the other end of the
state Snyder was filming
Southport’s annual king
mackerel fishing tour
nament from a helicopter
when his attention was
diverted from his filming.
“What are these little
pieces of metal flying off the
engine?’ 1 Snyder asked his
pilot.
The pilot managed to
bring the craft back to shore
for an emergency landing, to
find that the craft’s trans
niission was breaking up.
Prior to that mishap,
! however, Snyder did get
some footage of the tour
nament. One sequence,
which eventually made it
into the final product shows
some fishermen proudly
displaying some of their
catch for the cameraman.
But the unusual and
regrettable sometimes
happens.
One angler while
displaying a large king
mackerel saw his hopes for
winning the tournament and
*itssss,ooo first prize literally
slip from his hands. His fish,
which he was holding high
for the world to see, lurched
and slipped back into the
water and freedom. The
angler avows that the fish
was larger than any
weighed in during the
tournament.
v Cando recalls vividly an
event in eastern North
Carolina which also in
volved some aerial shots
being made from a
helicopter.
“While we were filming a
sequence, I was having to
hang out the door of the
helicopter,” he explained.
“The first thing I knew the
door’s window fell off.”
Although he was
somewhat startled, the
filming sequence was
finished and a search begun
for the window.
1 “We looked for it for a
little' while,” Cando said'.
“But we didn’t find it. I’m
still waiting to hear about
some fanner in eastern
North Carolina finding a
piece of a helicopter.
Jefferys’ wife, Marie, who
was production coordinator
for the film, also will long
remember an experience
which occurred during
filming of a sequence of
«■’ water rafting in the
r. jitama.
... the raft heaved and
itd through a turbulent
a *ch of white water her
pj »-,ses fell overboard in the
iht froth. While the
frequence was comp? ate an
hour or so later she decided
to.return to the spot net to
take a last look for her
glasses. To her surprise the
eyeglasses has washed out of
the churning water and to
the shore, unharmed by the
ordeal.
To complete the film
project, more than six and a
half miles of film (roughly
35,000 feet) was shot to be
finally edited down to just
over 1,000 feet in the finished
28 - minute film.
Even with all the “trials”
associated with filming
Jefferys speaks en
thusiastically about the
people who helped to make
it possible.
“One thing we learned on
the project is that there are
so many people who are
doing so much to make
interesting things happen all
over the state,” he said.
“Hiey participated so en
thusiastically in this project
and are making a fine
contribution to the whole
state.”
Jefferys added that the
film in some cases does not
show all the work that was
contributed.
“A 30 - second glimpse in
the film may have involved
two or three hours of
filming,” he explained.
“And some people who
participated didn’t make it
into the film at all. It was not
that they were not worthy of
inclusion but we just could
not get all of them into a 28 -
minute film.”
“I think we could
probably make another film
with a whole new cast of
characters with a different
approach to North Carolina
with the footage we did not
use,” he said.
Jefferys described the
project as “a heckuva lot of
fun but it was a lot of work
too.” The film project was
completed in nine months in
comparison to 14 months for
the last state travel film,
“The Goodliest Land,”
which was shot 14 years ago.
“There was a strong
challenge to improve upon
‘The Goodliest Land’ both
among ourselves and from
many people across the
state,” Jefferys added. “I
hope we have done that.”
The producer said the
project has taught him a lot
more about North Carolina
and her people.
“We are more alike than
we are different,” he said.
“From a fisherman* along
the coast to a fox hunter in
the mountains and many in
between we found that the
philosophies are similar in
each person’s love for North
Carolina and their desire to
see it progress. It drove
home an old feeling in a new
way.”
The film features several
North Carolina per
sonalities. Charles Kuralt
does a segment on the four
seasons in the state. Andy
Griffith, who began his
acting career as a member
of the cast of “The Lost
Colony”, talks briefly about
the nation’s oldest outdoor
drama and the history it
involves.
Fisherman George
Bedsworth of Morehead City
describes the action of deep
sea fishing and Ailene Ash
does a segment on white
water rafting in the North
Carolina mountains.
Musical score for the film
was done by the- North
Carolina Symphony and the
narration was done by Ernie
Anderson, whose voice is
well known in many national
commercials and in network
•television.
The new film will be
distributed worldwide upon
request to groups,, theatres,
television stations, cable
networks by Modern
Talking -Picture Service,
Inc. in Washington, D.C.
Inside the state copies of the
filjn or video tapes of it will
be available through the
Travel and Tourism
Division, 430 Noirth
Salisbury Street, Raleigh,
N.C. 27611.
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