UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesdav. September 24,1996
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Man rescues vintage movies
By Eric Weslander Kansan staff writer
A classic film lies tied to a railroad track. The speeding train of time and deterioration bears down upon it.
Suddenly, in a scene straight out of a silent movie, David Shepard appears and gallantly pulls the film to safety, moments before it is destroyed.
Shepard is a film preservationist who will speak at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Spencer Museum of Art. He will demonstrate the tedious steps he goes through to restore original films threatened by age and neglect.
"I like to think of it as a classic Hollywood last-minute rescue," said John Tibbettts, associate professor of theater and film studies, who has known Shepard since 1971. He said many of the films were literally moments away from crumbling to dust when Shepard had saved them
We have a whole record of a cen
tury that's in danger of disappearing." Tibbets said. "Most of the films we see on television that were made prior to 1985 are in danger of being lost."
Although many movies are copied and revised for video or television, Shepard seeks to restore the original versions of films. He uses such methods as water baths, special optical printers and chemicals to fill out scratches, often frame by frame. His first major project, a restoration of the 1922 documentary Nanook of the North, was completed in 1972.
Since then his accomplishments include the restoration of 30 Buster Keaton silent films, for which he earned recognition from Entertainment Weekly and the International Keaton Fan Club.
Although the majority of Shepard's work deals with films of the 1920s, Tibbets said recent popular movies such as The Godfather were endangered as well.
Sergio Rudelman, San Jose, Costa Rica, junior, said that although he preferred watching The Godfather on video, he would not like the original film version to be lost.
"It's a shame," he said. "That is the best movie I have ever seen."
The lecture, titled The Cine-Century: History Lost and Found, is the last in a series of events celebrating the 100th anniversary of American film. Other events in the celebration, sponsored by the department of theater and film and the Hall Center for the Humanities, included last semester's speeches by filmmakers Ken Burns and Mike Robe.
Elizabeth Barnhill of the Hall Center said Shepard's films were a part of American history.
"I think we take for granted that film is always going to be there, but it's not going to be if people don't step in and do the kind of things that Shearp is doing," she said.
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David Shepard, a film preservationist, will speak tomorrow evening at the Spencer Museum of Art.
Hush attracts adults, children
By Jeff Ruby
Kansan staff writer
Children's theater isn't just for children anymore.
The University of Kansas Theatre for Young People is presenting Hush: An Interview with America for the remainder of the week. The political play reaches audiences on different levels, said director Jeanne Klein.
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The play, written by James Still, a 1982 KU theater graduate, is about a 12-year-old blind girl named Maggie living in Hush, Kan., who imagines fantastic stories in her backyard. A reporter tells the nation Maggie sees angels, turning the girl into a national celebrity.
"Children are the most honest audience," said Laura Zabel, a Manhattan senior who plays the role of Maggie. "If they're bored, they'll come right out and tell you. If they see you mess up, they'll tell you. And if they're excited, you'll know it too."
Zabel said the script, which is aimed at adults and children, got different responses from each group.
Klein, associate professor of theater and film and head of the Theatre for Young People, said Hush encouraged interactive theater.
"Adults and children laugh at completely different places," she said. "Each audience has a different interpretation of the show. A lot of children's theater is like an After School Special with a special-packaged message. This isn't like that."
"I think theater ought to be like football," Klein said. "You ought to be out there rooting for the hero. I enjoy watching the child audience respond to a play more than adults responding to a play, because adults just sit there and take it."
Cast member Leyla Strotkamp, Peabody senior, said it was dangerous to play to a young audience differently than an adult audience.
"If you get a response on something, especially from children, it's easy to exploit that and play up too much," she said. "And then you're just using the audience and not being true to the character."
"The play is ironic in that the story tells of a blind girl who can see' much better than the others in the play," she said.
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*Hush: An Interview with America runs Sept. 23 to 28 in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall. Performances for fourth, fifth and sixth graders are at 1 p.m. Monday through Friday. Public performances are at 2:30 and 7 p.m. Saturday.*
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Justice Antonin Scalia to visit School of Law
By Stephanie Fite Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas will be visited by a Supreme Court justice for the second time in as many years on Thursday.
Justice Antonin Scalia will conduct a question and answer open forum at 10:30 a.m. in Room 104 of Green Hall.
Trace Schmelzt, Leawood law student, said Scalia's interpretation of the Constitution allowed no flexibility, and she was interested in how the justice articulates this vision.
Steve McAllister, associate professor at the law school, organized Scalia's visit.
"Regardless if you are for or against what he says it is an honor to have Justice Scalia visit," she said.
Scalia, the first Italian American on the court, was educated at Georgetown University and Harvard Law. He was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court of Appeals for the District
of Columbia by President Ronald Reagan in 1982. He was elevated to the Supreme Court by Reagan in 1986.
McAllister said that although Scalia was controversial about the way he addresses things, McAllister did not foresee a problem with Scalia's visit.
don't mind arguing about things. Although it is not a formal speech, I think student questions will keep him pretty well occupied," McAllister said. "When students are able to see these figures outside of how they are represented in the media, they are able to formulate different opinions about them. It happened with the Clarence Thomas visit, I'm sure it will happen here too."
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Chick flicks still shown
Stereotypes continue played out on screen
By Jeff Ruby
Kenyon staff writer
Kansan staff writer
When it comes to choosing movies, KU men and women still have a long way to go in smashing stereotypes.
Males eat up action flickers, and women frequently flock to love stories. That is exactly what Hollywood movie producers have in mind when they release movies such as Maximum Risk and Emma, many students say.
"There are also movies aimed at men," sain Ann Baumgartner, Andover freshman. "There just isn't a neat life term like that for it."
Some male students are not afraid to say that they prefer violence and sports rather than love and relationships in films.
"Men look for like action flcks or sports movies," said Matt Mumaw, Leawood senior. "I know it sounds like a cliche, but women may be more into relationship movies like Waiting to Exhale or Fried Green Tomatoes or something."
Dawn Blacksher, assistant manager of Dickinson Theaters, 2339 Iowa St., said patrons at her theater were predictable.
"We had Stripease and that was mostly men," she said. "We're going to get First Wives Club, and I expect mostly women for that."
Sally Shedd, a graduate teaching assistant of Women's Studies who teaches a class on the depiction of women in theater and film, said calling a movie a "chick flick" was no more than an oversimplification.
"If the stereotypes prompt people to ask why, then that's good," she said.
Movies about women and aimed at women are not a new genre, said Catherine Preston, assistant professor of film studies.
"In the 1940s, they called them 'woman's films,'" she said. "They specifically addressed women's concerns such as class issues and working for a living. Now they are replaced with questions about a woman's sexuality."
Preston said that healthy portrayals of women in movies were still rare.
"Most roles now are dealing with women's availability to sex, or the threat they constitute toward men," she said. "You still don't see important issues dealt with, like abortion."
Preston said Hollywood was definitely conscious of preferences, and used such preferences to its advantage.
"They'll put Bruce Willis or Mel Gibson in films because they're big with women viewers, and Hollywood can use them to appeal to both sexes."
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