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20 PRODUCTION SOUND & VIDEO – Winter 2021 NEWS OF THE WORLD by John Pritchett CAS Rising up over a hill, you turn onto the road leading to the Galisteo Ranch outside of Santa Fe, NM, looking across the cactus-filled desert to observe an odd sight. In the distance is a strange caravan being led by a small buckboard wagon pulled by a single horse and carrying a middle-aged man and a ten-year-old girl. They are having a mostly one-sided conversation. Behind the wagon is an even stranger sight, a parade of vehicles starting with a truck-like thing with a large crane and a bunch of bundled up characters hanging on all sides. That is followed by two very large vans festooned with antennas and such, and then by an extended line of assorted other vehicles comprising Helena Zengel as Johanna Leonberger and Tom Hanks as Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd. Photo: Bruce W. Talamon/ Universal Pictures several smaller vans, smaller trucks, a trailer carrying supplies, and food, and finally, a trailer loaded with two portable toilets. The entire train is moving slowly across the largely uncharted wasteland, dodging cholla and saguaro and gopher holes to get to an end at some point, only to turn around and go back where it started. The locations in New Mexico offer tons of unique, at least in this country, challenges for each department and cast alike. Many of the sets sat on dirt fields and roads that turned into mud morasses at the least rain, which we got plenty of. The Grips and Transpo were constantly having