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Film heritage

Kansas City possesses a rich film heritage and a currently larger film community. This focus on filmmaking in the city more or less began in 1931 when University of Kansas advertising graduate F.O. Calvin founded the Calvin Company in Kansas City. Calvin, an industrial and educational film production company, grew from a small business located in a one-room office to becoming the largest industrial film producer and 16mm lab in the world during the 1950s and 1960s. Calvin was throughout its life a technical innovator and creative force within the nontheatrical film industry, an early developer of 16mm release printing and sound-on-film technology, and a prolific producer, winning several hundred film festival awards, until it ceased operations in the early 1980s. In total, by that time, Calvin had produced about 3,000 mostly short films. Calvin made promotional and advertising films for some of the largest Fortune 500 companies in the country, including DuPont Fabrics, Goodyear Tire, Caterpillar Tractor, and General Mills. Calvin's impressively large studio and office headquarters was located at the corner of Truman and Troost roads in Kansas City and many of the company's productions were filmed in and around Kansas City, showing street scenes, local landmarks and activities. However, a great deal of filming was done on-location in other parts of the country or the world, especially in government and educational travelogue film projects. 1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... The University of Kansas (often referred to as just KU or Kansas) is an institution of higher learning located in Lawrence, Kansas. ... Generally speaking, advertising is the promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas, usually by an identified sponsor. ... // Events and trends This map shows two essential global spheres during the Cold War in 1959. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ... The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... The Fortune 500 is a ranking of the top 500 United States corporations as measured by gross revenue. ... The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (NYSE: GT) was founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling. ... General Mills NYSE: GIS is a Fortune 500 corporation, mainly concerned with food products, that is headquartered in Golden Valley, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. ...

In addition, local actors and actresses (particularly those with experience in community theater productions, local radio and television) were used by Calvin as actors in their films, and many aspiring, talented young film students and filmmakers from the Kansas City area were employed by Calvin as directors, writers, cameramen, editors, sound operators, etc., etc. Among these local filmmakers were Robert Altman, who was born and raised in Kansas City and who got his first filmmaking experience as a film director at the Calvin Company during the early 1950s. Altman directed about 60 to 65 25-to-30-minute industrial films for the company over a period of five or six years. After leaving the company, Altman produced, wrote, and directed his first feature film, a juvenile delinquency melodrama titled The Delinquents on-location in Kansas City in 1955, using local talent and crews (with the exception of lead actor and Hollywood performer Tom Laughlin, the future "Billy Jack"). It was this film, that not only introduced Altman to Hollywood and positioned his foot firmly in Hollywood's door, and grossed $1,000 for distributor United Artists, that also opened people's minds up to possibilities of feature filmmaking in Kansas City. Following The Delinquents, local movie theater exhibitor Elmer Rhoden Jr. produced another film about juvenile delinquency, The Cool and the Crazy in 1958, using mostly local talent and crews once again. The film, with its rabid anti-marijuana message and over-the-top performance by Hollywood lead actor Scott Marlowe has attracted quite a cult following over the past few decades. Filmmaker Robert Altman on the set of The Gingerbread Man Robert Bernard Altman (born February 20, 1925) is an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. ... // Events and trends This map shows two essential global spheres during the Cold War in 1959. ... The Delinquents is a 1957 motion picture which Robert Altman, ever the auteur, wrote, produced, and directed in his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri during the summer of 1955 on a $63,000 budget. ... 1955 (MCMLV in Roman) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... There are at least two well-known men named Tom Laughlin: Tom Laughlin - an actor best-known for playing the title role in Billy Jack Tom Laughlin - a professional wrestler better-known by his stage name of Tommy Dreamer This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other... The current United Artists logo. ... The Delinquents is a 1957 motion picture which Robert Altman, ever the auteur, wrote, produced, and directed in his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri during the summer of 1955 on a $63,000 budget. ... The Cool and the Crazy is a 1958 American International Pictures production directed by William Witney, and written by Richard C. Sarafian. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Species Cannabis indica Cannabis ruderalis Cannabis sativa Cannabis is a genus of flowering plant that includes one or more species. ...

That first rapid tide of locally-produced feature films ebbed for awhile through the 1960s, although in nearby Lawrence, Kansas, industrial filmmaker Herk Harvey produced and directed the cult classic horror film Carnival of Souls. Harvey was a film director for Centron Corporation, a Lawrence-based industrial and educational film production company, and somewhat of a rival to the neighboring Calvin Company. In 1967, Hollywood director Richard Brooks directed a feature film about the murder of the Kansas Clutter family, titled In Cold Blood, and filmed most of it in and around Kansas City and the surrounding farmland, where the murder actually took place. This was another chance where the local acting talent, usually confined to industrial films, got to appear in feature films. Brooks and crew were very pleased by the outstanding acting talent to be found in Kansas City, and cast several locals in supporting speaking parts. In the early 1970s, Raquel Welch breezed in through Kansas City to shoot exterior scenes for her exploitation film Kansas City Bomber, and afterwards Kansas City became a center for the production of independent B films and melodramas. Local producer-director Lamar Card shot the low-budget 1976 movie The Student Body, a "wild youth" film similar to The Delinquents and The Cool and the Crazy, using local talent and city streets as setting for a wild drag race through downtown Kansas City. Hollywood actors and directors involved in film production in Kansas City during the 1970s included Pam Grier, Fred Williamson, Warren Stevens, and Linda Lovelace, and productions filmed in and around Kansas City during the time period included Bird Lives, Mrs. Bridge, Bucktown, and Linda Lovelace for President. The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ... The Douglas County Courthouse anchors the south end of Lawrences downtown. ... Harold A. Herk Harvey (June 3, 1924 – April 3, 1996), was an American film director. ... Carnival of Souls is a horror cult film released in 1962. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the actor, see Richard Brooks (actor) Richard Brooks (May 18, 1912-March 11, 1992) was a Hollywood film writer, director, and (occasionally) producer. ... Official language(s) None Capital Topeka Largest city Wichita Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 15th 82,277 mi²; 213,096 km² 211 mi; 340 km 400 mi; 645 km 0. ... The 1967 film In Cold Blood was based on Capotes novel of the same name. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... Raquel Welch on the film poster for One Million Years B.C. Raquel Welch (born September 5, 1940) is an American actress. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Delinquents is a 1957 motion picture which Robert Altman, ever the auteur, wrote, produced, and directed in his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri during the summer of 1955 on a $63,000 budget. ... The Cool and the Crazy is a 1958 American International Pictures production directed by William Witney, and written by Richard C. Sarafian. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... Foxy Brown DVD cover Pamela Suzette Grier (born 26 May 1949 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American actress. ... Fred The Hammer Williamson (born March 5, 1938 in Gary, Indiana) was a star defensive player in the American Football League during the 1960s, playing for the Oakland Raiders and later the Kansas City Chiefs. ... Linda Susan Boreman, better known by her stage name Linda Lovelace (January 10, 1949 to April 22, 2002), was a pornographic actress in the 1972 film Deep Throat. ...

The Day After

In 1982, ABC-TV selected Kansas City as the location for their dramatic and controversial made-for-television film, The Day After, about the aftermath of a Soviet nuclear attack on Kansas City. Jason Robards was the star, and although most of the post-attack action took place in Lawrence, Kansas, quite a bit of scenes before the blast were filmed on location in Kansas City, and about 100 extras from Kansas City were used. At the end of the film, Robards returns to his home in Kansas City, stumbles through rubble and devastation, and finds his home, having a confrontation with radiation victims taking residence as squatters in the rubble of his house. Director Nicholas Meyer used the demolition site of the old St. Joseph Hospital in Kansas City as the set, and as Robards stumbled through this destruction for the cameras, wearing makeup that made him appear to have lost half his hair from radiation and to have suffered serious flashburns, traffic slowed on the surrounding streets and passers-by strained for a closer look as Robards lifted a human arm from under a fallen building --- just the arm, severed at the shoulder. In 1983, The Day After was aired on TV and Americans responded to it soberly and broke down at the thought of a nuclear war. It is to date the most-watched and highest-rated TV event in the history of television. 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The ABC or Australian Broadcasting Corporation is the national, Australia. ... The Day After is an American TV-movie aired in 1983 on the ABC network. ... Soviet redirects here. ... Robards in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Jason Nelson Robards Jr. ... The Douglas County Courthouse anchors the south end of Lawrences downtown. ... Nicholas Meyer (born 24 December 1945 in New York City, USA) is a film writer, producer and director best known for his involvement in the Star Trek films. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Recently

Recently, many popular feature films have been produced in Kansas City, including Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990), Article 99 (1992), Kansas City (1996), a film about 1930s Kansas City and local jazz music, directed by native Robert Altman, and Ride with the Devil (1999), about the anti-slavery/pro-slavery schism during the Civil War which took place in the Kansas-Missouri border near Kansas City. Recently, the Greater Kansas City Film Commission was founded to encourage producers to film in Kansas City, and the Kansas City Film Festival and Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee were begun as traditional local festivities. Mr. ... This article is about the year. ... 1992 (MCMXCII in Roman) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... // Events and trends A public speech by Benito Mussolini, founder of the Fascist movement The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. ... Ride With the Devil is a 1999 American Civil War drama directed by Ang Lee. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... A civil war is a war in which the competing parties within the same country or empire struggle for national control of state power. ...

The newest films to come out of Kansas City are CSA: Confederate States of America by Kevin Willmott, which premiered at Sundance, and AIR, a feature length musical.

In Television

In 1953, an aspiring 28-year-old Robert Altman, after producing several local television commercials outside of his work for the Calvin Company, turned to television as a new and more wide-open market for his next side project and he and Calvin associate Robert Woodburn shot a dramatic 15-minutes-an-episode anthology series titled "The Pulse of the City" in Kansas City using Calvin talent and local thespians. They were amazingly able to sell the series to the independent Dumont network, who ran it for one season (1953-54). DuMont may be used to refer to one of several things: Allen B. DuMont was a U.S. inventor, industrialist, and pioneer in the early years of television. ...

More recently, the show Mama's Family, starring Vicki Lawrence, is generally considered to take place in the Kansas City suburb of Raytown, Missouri. Although no state is given in the series, many cast members made that suggestion. Vicki Lawrence as Mama Harper. ... Vicki Lawrence Vicki Lawrence playing Thelma Mama Harper on Mamas Family. ... Raytown is a city located in Jackson County, Missouri. ...

The ABC series Married to the Kellys took place in a Kansas City suburb, originally called Back to Kansas.