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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
COMMENTARY
THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011
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PATRICK GOLDSTEIN
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LOS ANGELES — Veteran movie producer Jordan Kerner spent nearly 10 years finding a way to make "The Smurfs," which earned $35.6 million in its opening weekend in the U.S. But it's not his long track record in Hollywood, which includes producing everything fr
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UNCSA are getting an education not just in theory and production but in the often less-than-glamorous aspects of life in the trenches of Hollywood.
Kerner has recruited a host of faculty members who still have their day jobs, which helps give students a grounding in the kind of problem-solving necessary to survive on a film set. Through a
up to talk to an actor, our kids would be right there with him. They also got to spend time with our editors, visual effects supervisor, sound designers and other crew members. Sometimes the discussions were difficult, but that was the whole point — it's a way to learn the whys and why notes of filmmaking." (With it being 2011, students had to sign release forms promising not to blog about what
"Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked," which will hit theaters this Christmas. He also has his students listen in on his conversations with his agent so they can develop an understanding of the demands of the marketplace.
Kerner never imagined himself being a film school dean — in fact, he never went to film school himself. But after surviving a freak staph infection and enduring the
their experiences. But Kerner felt the school needed more outside professionals on the faculty, so he recruited a host of industry pros, including producer Bob Gosse and Peter Bogdanovich, who teaches a freshman film class.
My biggest concern with today's film schools is that they tend to offer students far more instruction in technique than in actual ideas.
But the student films I watched
Immersion project, where students gain a deeper understanding of character and story by spending several weeks at places like the Veterans Artificial Limb Hospital in Philadelphia and Habitat for Humanity in New Orleans.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011
"They can't take cameras or recording devices — just a pad and pen," he says. "The whole idea is to go out and get to know people, hear their stories and get under
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
COMMUNITY
Downtown Lawrence through the years
KYLIE NUTT
editor@kansan.com
The names of current businesses may sound familiar, but now people can easily see how downtown Lawrence looked years before their favorite stores, bars or restaurants were there.
A recent project by the KU libraries that digitizes old maps makes this possible.
The maps of downtown Lawrence, which are available on the library's website, are useful for people who grew up in Kansas or have Kansas roots. They can now compare the city or town when they were there to what it looks like today, said Sarah Kanning, communications coordinator for the libraries.
"So, what we wind up with is this wonderful, historical set of information that shows how these towns grew," Kanning said.
Last April, the libraries received a $30,000 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to digitize the Sanborn map collection of 241 cities and towns in Kansas, Kanning said. The outsourced project took 11 months to digitize the map collection from 1883 to 1922. The 21.5-inch by 25.6-inch
paper maps were transferred into a high-quality photograph for people to view online in order to help preserve the original copies, Kanning said.
The Sandborn Map Company's intended purpose was for insurance companies across America to buy them so they would know what risks were involved with each building. The maps helped because they indicated what the buildings were made from, how many stories each building had, where the windows were and if there were sheds or outdoor buildings, Kanning said.
"The unintended consequence was these beautiful very detailed historical maps that were done every four to five years," Kanning said.
EARLY YEARS
Almost thirty years after Lawrence was established, the first Sanborn map of the city was made in 1883. A map of the 700 block of Massachusetts Street shows the city was growing with grocery stores, dry goods, clothing stores, jewelers, confectioneries, bakeries, tailors, hardware stores and billiards.
The street names running east to west that we know today as Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth streets and so on were once names of individuals, "distinguished for their Patriotism.
Philanthropy, and Love of Liberty," according to the Pictorial History of Lawrence by David Dary.
Seventh Street was Winthrop Street and Eighth Street was called Henry Street in the mid-1800s, when they were first named.
Massachusetts Street is the widest street in the downtown commercial district, twenty-feet wider than the others, according to the Pictorial History of Lawrence.
Over the years the stores have changed numerous times to keep the stores relevant with the consumers needs.
Bob Schumm, vice mayor of Lawrence, and owner of Dynamite Saloon, 721 Massachusetts St., and Buffalo Bob's, 719 Massachusetts St., has lived in Lawrence since 1964 and has seen downtown Lawrence improve over the past forty-seven years.
LATER YEARS
In the late 1960s, Schumm opened his first business, the Bull and Boar at 9th and Vermont streets, behind Weaver's Department Store, 901 Massachusetts St. At this time downtown was the center of commerce for the city, but shortly after, grocery stores and auto dealers began to move west to the suburbs, Schumm said.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Eldridge House Hotel, Fall 1867
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
MIKE GUNNOE/KANSAN
Eldridge today
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Weyemuller's Pool Hall, late 1920s
MIKE GUNNOE/KANSAN
Spectators today
The Eldridge House Hotel, 701 Mass. St., replaced the Free State Hotel in 1866, after it was destroyed in Qaunttrill's Raid. The current hotel was built in 1924 after the previous one deteriorated and was torn down, according to the Lawrence Downtown Historic Building Survey. The Jayhawker Bar and TEN at the Eldridge Hotel were an office and a barber shop in 1883. And the basement of the hotel was a popular hangout for college students before the sixties. The hotel lagged business and was converted into apartments in 1970 and was renovated into the hotel again in 1985. Mike Conner, a graduate student from Shawnee, said he enjoys going to The Jayhawker Bar occasionally on Thursdays for half price martini night.
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The Fairfax Hotel building, 710 Mass. St., was originally a restaurant on the first floor and the Lawrence Journal-World was on the second and third floors. In 1912 it was turned into a moving picture theater, making it the first community west of the Mississippi to have one, according to the Lawrence Downtown Historic Building Survey. The building also housed a billiards hall, automobile company, cafe, furniture store and meat market, among others.
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