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>>THE NEWCOMERS" UNDER THE GRAND TETONS - While on location in Jackson Hole, Wyoming for Walt Disney Productions’ dramatic western adventure, “The Newcomers,” the picture’s stars Steve Forrest and Vera Miles act out a scene with young Clint Howard. In color by Technicolor, “The Newcomers” also stars Ronny Howard, Jack Elam and Morgan Woodward. SIDELINE ADVICE - An intent Vera Miles hangs on director Robert Totten’s every word in the interpretation of a scene. FATHER TO SON ADVICE - Ronny Howard gets some parental advice from his actor dad, Ranee, about a scene while on location. by Tom Jones The production on “The Newcomers,” a dramatic western adventure starring Steve Forrest, Vera Miles and Jack Elam, filmed in Jackson Hole, Wyoming under Robert Totten’s direction, signals the beginning of a $33,000,000 motion picture program at Walt Disney Productions for 1969 and 1970, according to the studio’s executive producer Ron Miller, who is also producing “Newcomers” at an estimated cost of $2,500,000. “The Boatniks,” also budgeted at $2,500,000 is shooting in Newport Beach. Starring in the comedy about the world’s largest concentration of inept yachtsmen are Robert Morse, Stefanie Powers, and Phil Silvers. Norman Tokar directs and Ron Miller produces. Getting a big share of the budget allotment is “Bedknob and Broomstick,” a $6,500,000 musical fantasy comprising live action cartoon animation and unusual special effects on the order of “Mary Poppins,” the top grossing Disney picture. Oscar nominee Ron Moody of “Oliver” has already been set for one of the starring roles. The successful “Poppins” team will again guide this one, with Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi scripting, Walsh producing, Robert Stevenson directing and the brothers Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman writing the music. The story is about an amateur witch, who is adopted by three homeless children and falls in love with a con man. They all go off on a fantastic trip aboard a flying four-poster bed with a magic bedknob and help thwart the German invasion of England during World War II. The picture will be a year in production and begins early in 1970. Set to roll in the spring is “Paniola.” Winston Hibler and Ron Miller will produce this $3,500,000 period western about a Texan’s colorful exploits on a ranch in Hawaii and his adventures with the islanders and cattle rustlers. The Disney studio’s ambitious 1970 summer schedule will have two pictures Planned for the winter of 1970 is “Chateau Bon Vivant,” a $2,500,000 comedy about a New York businessman who inherits a broken down ski lodge in northern Quebec and by a fluke turns it into a going resort. Ron Miller will produce. Set, too, at about this time, is “The Rating Game,” budgeted at $2,500,000. The picture will revolve around the unpredictable world of the TV rating system. It will be produced by Bill Anderson. “The Aristocats,” a $4,500,000 animated cartoon feature which has been in production for the past two years, will be a Christmas, 1970, attraction. Page 8