uarch 17, 1942

Mire Gwinn Henry
Director of Athletics
University of Kansae

Ure Farl Klooz
Bursar
University of Kansas

Dear Gwinn and Kari:

i am sending you @ copy of a letter fron Fred Me Harris of the
Chanute Tribune. You doubtless are acquainted with the fact that Fred
Me Harris is the son of Mr. Fred Werris of the Board of legentse

This letter from Fred Harris is identical with a great maaber of
requests thet we have received from many alumni throughout the State inquiring
for shots of some of our basketball gamase Fred Bllsworth has called repeatedly
requesting that we send some sort of basketball film of our games te some of
his insistent alummie Bach time we tell him that we do not have such films.
Fred has also asked for the Indiana~-Kansas games and the Southern California
and Rice games. I tell him that these are the property of the Ne Ce Ae Ae and
since they paid for filming them we have no right te send them out under the
University's neme.s

i am spotking at the McPherson, Kansas Rebounders Club and they

have requested that I bring some basketball films alongs I am also speaking
at the Chase, Kansas High School, to the Metro Club Lunchenn in Kansas City,
to the Holyrood, Kansas Athletic Banguet and to the Kansas City, Missouri
Grain and Feed Club dimnere These are all athletio seteups with athletic
boosters as the background, and they constantly ask for filnte

“Ur. Fred Montgomery called me prior to the imiversity of Oklahona
game here, stating that they bad shot all of the football ganes here for the
past several years and he was wondering if a few hundred feet of the Oklahoma
gane would not be a fine thing for the grapefruit league end lettuce league
speeches that coaches are foreed to mike. He offered to shoot it at $6.00
a hundred fect. Thore are four hundred feet in each one of the film rolis
and if you just took the highlights of the game it would cost $24.00 for one
reel, but if you took the entire game it would be two reels and that would
amount to $48.00.

I lmow that it is rather difficult for us to comprehend that movies
are made of basketball, although we do see them in our theaters right alonge
_Nebraske has been shooting films of her basketball games for the last three
years, as had Oklahoma and some of the other BigeSix schools. ‘Three years
ago the lighting in all of our Big-Six schools was raised so that pare
could be shot of all of our gamese