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Local Filmmaker Tries Crowdfunding

Bruce Walters

Hoping to turn his fascination with the 1920's into a film, an art professor at Western Illinois University is asking us to help. Bruce Walters has started a "crowdfunding" campaign to raise money for what he calls "The Spirit of the Age."

The 20's was a time of great change in the US - it was the jazz age, with prohibition,  women had just won the right to vote, and a new invention called radio was becoming popular. To bring all of that to life, Walters envisions a young woman from the farm, entering a dance hall for the first time and meeting artists, suffragettes, and others.

Right now, Walters is trying to raise 15,000 dollars for the development phase of the project - through crowdfunding and applying for grants.

His goal is to create a one-hour art film, appropriate for public television, with interactive media and a touring art exhibit.
A teaser for the project is available on his website, thespiritoftheage.com, and that's also where contributions can be made. 

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.