Leo Beuerman
About Leo Beuerman
A short documentary about Leo Beuerman (1902–1974), a very small disabled man who sold pencils from a cart and became a regular on the downtown sidewalks of Lawrence, Kansas, in the 1950s and 1960s.
Cast & crew
More about Leo Beuerman
Gene Boomer directed. Russell A. Mosser and Arthur H. Wolf of Centron produced it. The budget was $12,000. About 2,300 prints were sold, and it became a widely used classroom film.
Themes
In film history
Sold about 2,300 prints and was widely shown in classrooms.
Notes
- Beuerman used a tractor to get his cart into downtown Lawrence.
- Centron's successor, Phoenix Media, has kept a page on the film.
Scenes
- Beuerman and his tractor on a downtown Lawrence sidewalk.