Seniors making film
By SARAH DALE Kansan Staff Writer
Films have been referred to as the medium of this century, a medium which will record memories for years to come. This is the reason why the senior class for the last two years has been capturing memories on film.
"A camera inherently records things we take for granted like slang, styles, car designs and the way the campus looks now," said John Hill, Prairie Village senior, senior class president and film writer.
This film is technically the first senior class film that has ever been made, said Nick Eliopoulos, Prairie Village senior and film director. Last year Tom Swale, Prairie Village graduate student, directed the film but he used an eight millimeter camera similar to one which is used for home movies, explained Eliopoulos.
"The purpose of this film is to preserve it so it may be shown at the tenth and fiftieth class reunions." Hill said.
Nostalgic film
"We hope the film will take the effect of the memories of yesterday," Eliopoulos said. "It is more of a nostalgic film capturing the thoughts, clothes, happenings and classes at KU in 1969."
The film is professionally made with a 16 mm camera, in color, with sound incorporated. It will record the events of 1969 for the benefit of future generations.
Thousands of faces, faces of people on campus right now are being permanently recorded on film, said Eliopoulos. Hill, Richard Geary, Wichita graduate student and cameraman and Jim Bird, Ponca City, Okla., graduate student and cameraman, are working with Eliopouls in interviewing such personages as Andy Williams, Pat Paulsen and Walter Cronkite.
"We are attempting to get as many seniors in it as possible and also many well-known personalities on campus," Hill added.
Three phases
The film is divided into three phases, said Eliopoulos. The first phase deals with events and places in 1969; the second phase incorporates interviews and personal opinions of seniors and other students and faculty members; the third phase is the fun and gags aspect with a campus cops slant.
"The film itself will be hopefully quite entertaining, and also will have valuable things to say when it is shown this spring," Hill said. "The significance of it won't be realized until it is shown again in ten or fifty years.
"Seeing yourself, as you were so many years ago and seeing a color, sound movie of the campus and your friends will be more meaningful years from now. Even more than that this will be more of a historical document. We are thinking of it as a yearbook on film. Along this line anything indicative of this day and age, such as the dances, the music, the fads will all be included."
Finances
As writer and producer Hill has the job of allocating finances for the senior film. Hill said the budget is $2,000 which comes from the senior class treasury.
Eliopoulos started filming last May. He shot stock footage of graduation night. Since that time he has shot five to six hours of film which he hopes to condense to one-half to one hour of film. Seriousness
Seriousness
Hill went on to say the film will be done in a light and humorous manner. Certain sections where seniors are frankly interviewed on serious issues and questions will add real substance and meaning to the film, he added.
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After the ballots of a senior survey are counted, the tradition of graduation caps and gowns may follow the ASC and old Robinson Gym into extinction.
In the survey, sponsored by the senior class officers, all seniors are asked whether they want to wear caps and gowns to graduation, or prefer to contribute the $4 rental fee to a scholarship fund. A compromise choice is included that would allocate $5 for cap and gown rental with $1 of it going to the scholarship fund, John Hill, Prairie Village senior, and senior class president said.
The idea to transfer the money usually spent on caps and gowns to a scholarship fund for financially disadvantaged students was originally proposed by Phil Davis Belleview senior.
In addition to Davis proposal, Hill suggested that dues-paying seniors also be asked whether they would like to have their regularly scheduled class party in May, or have the $1500 usually spent on the party go toward the scholarship fund.
Davis proposed that the senior gift also go to the scholarship fund.
"Seniors should decide what is the most meaningful and relevant channel for their money. As the student body president always says, it's a question of priorities." Hill said.
"But if the class wants the party—and it is their money—we'll give them one, and a good one too," he said.
Hill said he would urge seniors to vote down the class party in favor of the scholarship fund.
"If only a small percentage vote, no matter what mathematical results are concluded, there will still be a great deal of question as to what the class as a whole wants.
Hill said his main concern is that a large percentage of the class send back the post card ballot sent to them along with information on the poll.
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