Leo Beuerman
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Leo Beuerman |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 12 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gene Boomer |
| script | Margaret Travis |
| production |
Russell A. Mosser Arthur H. Wolf |
| cut | Larry Bixby |
| occupation | |
Leo Beuerman is a 1969 by Gene Boomer turned short - documentary about the life of Leo Beuerman in Lawrence (Kansas) . The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1970.
Subject of the documentation
The film deals with the life of Leo Beuerman (1902–1974) in the 1950s and 1960s. The film was based on a short biography written by Beuerman himself in 1967.
Beuerman was born in 1902 with glass bones ( osteogenesis imperfecta ). He was deaf, blind in one eye and visually impaired in the other. He was only three feet tall and his legs were misshapen. Beuerman had not received a proper schooling. From 1950 he drove a vehicle from a farm on which he lived to the city every day, where he sold pens and other things on the street. Although he was known in Lawrence, people in town didn't speak of him until he was mugged in 1967 while he was sleeping in his vehicle.
background
The production company Centron was based in Lawrence (Kansas) . It mainly produced educational films for the classroom and specialized in films for the moral development of young people in particular. The nomination for Best Documentary Short 1970 for Leo Beuerman was the high point in the history of the production company.
Web links
- Leo Beuerman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary to Beuerman in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World of November 7, 1974.
- ↑ Beuerman's autobiography
- ↑ Centron Film Camera on the Kansaspedia the Kansas Historical Society.