University Daily Kansan, October 23, 1980
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Local film to include KU crowd
By BRETT WOODS Staff Reporter
Want to be in the movies? KU students will have their chance when the producers of "1989," a story about what might happen if big business takes over Lawrence, film a crowd scene this weekend.
Signs asking students to be at Wescow Hall at 2 p.m. Sunday for the films have been posted in classrooms. The students have promised a free pass to the spring break.
"1993" will be a 15-minute black and white film that will give its producers practice in putting films together. The techniques they learn could be used in making an hour-long documentary about philosophy, which is under consideration for funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
"What we want to do is explore ways of presenting material on film, because that is one of the problems we will face if we make the documentary," said Don Brownstein, associate professor of philosophy and one of the producers.
Although "1993" will be produced in only a few months on a shee string
budget provided by its makers, the documentary would take at least a year to film on a $205,000 budget, Brownstein said.
IF IT RECEIVES funding, the documentary will be filmed for the Public Broadcasting Service to support television stations across the United States.
"There is probably no conception about what today's philosophers do in their work." Brownstein said. "Most people think of philosophy as something that was done in the past by men wearing Roman togas. The documentary would be designed for a general audience. It won't be a bunch of philosophers sitting on a stage pontificating about their work.
"We want to show that philosophers are people who have some valid concerns. Although the problems philosophers address may be technical, there is also some idea of the core that can be presented to the general public."
Brownstein said college courses the dealt only with the history of philosophy and ignored the last 100 years of work in philosophy, misconceptions about philosophers.
Philosophers deal with abstract
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BROWNSTEIN IS BEING assisted in the project by Gene Bernosky, a Lawrence filmmaker. Bernosky will write and will direct filming of the documentary.
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"If we make the documentary, we hope to borrow some of the ideas used in making the PBS science program 'Cosmos'," he said. "The program has explained complicated physics in an interesting way so that the general public can understand it. That is what we hope to do."
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If filmed, the documentary would be more serious and would deal with three specific areas of philosophy that interest students in study–truth, mind and just societies.
Brownstein said he was hopeful that he would receive the grant to film the documentary. In the meantime, he and Bernofsky will work on "1983" and put whoever shows up for the Sunday crowd scene in the movies.
The film "1933" speculates about what might happen if Lawrence were taken over by multinational corporations. The script calls for the farmers in New York to face a fierce struggle against the multinational and is designed to be comic.
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