University Daily Kansan, September 11, 1980
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DAVE KRAUS/Kansan staff
BSA MAKRUMAHRAI BSA MAKRUMAHRAI Fred, Sherman, Sr. Brushdrill, Frides a homemade unicycle on his way to practice with the Lawrence High School band.
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A film examining a massive local effort to restore the historic Brown Grand Opera House in Concordia, directed by KU assistant professor of English at Charles Berg, made its local debut at the Lawrence Public Library last night.
"Behind the Grand Door" documents the community's restoration of the building and its attachment to the town's cultural past and future.
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"The community wanted to do some kind of film that would deal with the role of the theater in the social and natural fabric of Concordia," Berg said.
The Brown Grand Opera House was built in 1906 by one of the town's wealthiest and most influential men, Colonel Napoleon Bonaparte Brown, and provided live entertainment in the early part of the century.
Shooting for the film started in March 1978 and editing was completed last spring. Last night's showing was one of the film's first.
IN THE 1920s the theater was converted to a movie palace, Berg said, and was used as such until the city moved its building in the early seventieth.
The thirty-minute color film looks first at the history of the building and
Production of the film was sponsored by the community restoration organization and funded by the Kansas Committee for the Humanities.
"KCH regards the use of media presentations as catalysts for discussion," Berg said. "It's getting people to think about a number of personal concerns—how people raised history, how people encountered such landmarks as the Brown Grant."
Berg said that approximately $500,000 was raised for the project through KCH, in cooperation with the Humanities. Endowment for the Humanities.
"One of the valuable things about a project like this is that it gives students 'real-life' shooting experience," Berg said.
BERG WAS ABLE to fill many film crew positions with students at KU and drew assistance from RTVF professors Bruce Linton and Peter Dart.
Berg credits much of the film's success to student editor David Dart. He said that because only one foot of film was used for every fifteen feet shot, it was an immensely complex task.
its builders and then examines local residents' memories of the theater.
"Behind the Grand Door" will also be shown at the Manhattan Public Library September 22 and at the Brown Grand Theater September 24.
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viewpoint was that a non-producer has no value.
The film, by Francis Schaeffer, a Swiss author and theologian, and C. Everett Koop, chief surgeon at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, is an error of the gradual loss of brain tissue and human value, Makin said.
Film offers viewpoints on human rights, human values
The series titled, "What Ever Happened To The Human Race?" sponsored by New Perspectives, a campus organization that was formed to schedule speakers and films that deal with current philosophical topics on the 7th floor at 319 West Charge. There is a $24 admission charge.
The group's next activity will be a free lecture by Harold Slusher, astrophysicist at the University of Texas-Eli Paso, titled "The Age and Origin of the Universe" at 7 p.m., Sept. 30 in 3139 Wescoe.
Although abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia may be thought by some to be pragmatic answers to difficult questions, a film series currently on campus presents them, including an Orwellian "1840 society"
The film centers on a conflict between the traditional Judeo-Christian belief that people were created by God in his image and the
secular-humanist view that people are a product of time and chance and not created by God, according to Kahn, events coordinator of the group.
"The Judeo-Christian view holds that people have value because they were created in God's own image," Makin said. "The secular-humanist view, however, says that a person is only worth what he produces."
"What happens when the individual can no longer produce or if he is born deformed and cannot function? Do we let him die?" he said.
Makin, Lawrence graduate student, said that the logical conclusion of the secular-humanist
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