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Friday, October 5, 1973
University Dally Kansan
Lawrence Boasts Film Producer
By JEFFREY HILL
Lawrence has never established a reputation as a film-producing center, yet there is a place in town that has worked with the studio. The location is Gobel, Edible Alder, Dennis Day and Ed Arnes. That place is Centron Corp., 1621 W. 9th St., producers of industrial and commercial films.
"We've had a good many name actors here." Russell Mosser, executive vice president and treasurer of Centron, said recently. "Dan Rowan and Dick Martin were here several years ago. Of course, that was before they made it big."
The Rowan and Martin comedy team came here to appear in industrial films made for several companies, including the National Parks Foundation, Philips Petroleum and United Air Lines.
"Principally, we make nontheatrical films for sales promotion, public relations and dealer training and for certain types of motivation films," Mosser said. "We've also done a limited number of television commercials."
MOSSER, WHO graduated in 1940 from the University of Kansas with a degree in economics, said Centron films had filmed in countries throughout the world.
"We've photographed all over the United States, Canada and Mexico," he said, "and we are very proud of that."
Europe, South America and Central America.
"We've even done a travel film for
'Muve en France.' I guess we haven't
been African or a French."
A crew of four to six persons is usually sent to film on locations outside of Lawrence, Mosser said. The crew includes a scriptwriter and sometimes a scriptwriter.
"We have about 36 people employed at Centron to handle 40 to 50 films a year," Misser said. "In addition to our photography people we have artists, editors, an animation department, our own sales staff and an educational division called Centron Educational Films. It's all right here in Lawrence."
WHEN A FILM requires actors, Centron hires professionals. KU students and faculty members have appeared in many of the films. The professional was不需要. Mosser said.
"We've probably used several thousand KU students and faculty over the last few years," he said. "Students who know about Centron come over and fill out a talent sheet, and we call them as we need them. We're we're looking for people to typecast."
Centron, founded in 1947, has employed several KU graduates on its regular staff. Mosser said, Centron's president, Art Wolf, graduated from KU in 1939.
"We've always had a very close
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Centron has done commercials for Monato Corp. and the AC spark plug company.
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"We think we're particularly able to communicate ideas and information and we find industrial and educational films more challenging than making a one-minute commercial," he said. "Besides, most of the real commercial business is in New
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CENTRON USUALLY charges $1,200 to $1,500 for each minute of film produced, although the company currently is working on a film that will cost $3,000 a minute.
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It takes Centron from four to six months to produce an industrial film.
relationship with the University," Mosser said. "Not all of our people are from KU, though. We have one director from Nairobi and one from England.
"WE HAVE ATTRACTED A complete staff of specialists. We think our people have the ability to work anywhere in the country."
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