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"TICKET TO TOTAL FREEDOM" a film by William Edward Summers

"Ticket to Total Freedom" is a film originally created by designer/architect William Edward Summers during the late 1960s. The film offers a glimpse into the weekend lives of "Wes" Summers. (as he was known by his nick name then) with his friends and associates in Lawrence Kansas. Some of the film is shot at the campus of The University of Kansas around their favourite locations, the Student Union Building, and the park with the Campanile. There are also scenes in Old West Lawrence, and downtown. The documentary features people from the Lawrence High School classes of 70, 71, and 72, and includes a few of Summers' fellow band members from the various rock and blues bands that they formed during that time. The film is non-objective and shows a world of teens before cell phones, and computers. It seeks to capture the experience of being young during this time at the end of the hippie era, immediately after Woodstock in this beautiful Midwestern college town.

The film begins with the segment called "Faces and Trees" conceptualized by Summers with his friend known as "Crazy Bruce". It is inspired by Monet's "Water lilies" painting. The film has experimentation with the lens focus, and explores the beautiful autumn leaves and wet streets. The second and third segments are the "Vignettes" section in which Summers and his friends amuse themselves, before the days of computers and cell phones, by acting out skits such as the parting of the Red Sea at a friend's farm, and the fake mugging. The final segment is the "Celebration of Life" theme during which Summers, his girl friend, and the base player from one of his rock groups cavort in the empty football field at K.U.

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