TAKING a CLOSE-Up 0 K L a H 0 M a 8 I "OKLAHOMA HAS BEEN the SETTING for MANY
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.TAKING A CLOSE-Up 0 K L A H 0 M A 8 I "OKLAHOMA HAS BEEN THE SETTING FOR MANY EXCITING NATIONAL PRODUCTIONS THIS Y EAR." The past year has been a very busy one · Tulsa Adventure Rlms used Tulsa for the O klahoma Rlm Office. Loca as a backdrop for its new 90-minute tion film ing was up over last year, and contemporary action movie titled the Rim Office helped facilitate nwner 'Subterfuge." The movie, intended ous productions throughout tbe state. for cable, utilizes almost all Oklahoma resources, talent and services. O klahoma has been the setting for · O klahoma's first feature-length many exciting national productions animated motion picture bas begun this year, including the foUowing: pre-production in Tulsa and is set for a 1996 release. ''Boz - The ]unkyard Dog" is a joint effort of Gennan producers Peter Seidel and Wolfgang Fabry, and director Lock Wolverton of T ulsa. T he film's soundtrack will be produced and directed by Johnny Graham of Tulsa's Cloud ine Productions. Several episodes of realism TV shows, such as "R escue 911, " 'Vnsolved Mysteries" and ~meri ca sM ost Wanted, " were filmed on location in Chandler, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma City, Chickasha, McAlester and other cities throughout the state. ational · The Bethesda Boys Ranch near news shows induding NBC's "NOW" Mounds was the location for NBC's and CBS's "48 Hours" filmed in 'Tn The Line 0/Duty: A mbush Rush Springs this past summer. At Waco." Directed by Oklahoma Independent filmmaker Maryan native Dick Lowry, the two-hour Smith of Waslungton, D.C., filmed a broadcast drew a 28 share in the segment for National Geographic's ratings, with more viewers than "Explorer" program using Pawhuska's any other program aired in the TalJgrass Prairie Preserve as a same time slot scenic backdrop. 8 .