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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH EVERYDAY SECTION SUNDAY, JULY 8, 1990 r7 Photo Quiz Film maker Ken Burns' nine-epi- sode epic "The Civil War" features these people who were famous during the period. Clues to help identify them appear under each picture. II i A. Newspaperman, poet and Union hospital volunteer.

A documentary series illuminates 'the war that defined America B. Union nurse who tended the wounded on battlefields from Cedar Mountain to Antietam. By Harper Barnes Post-Dispatch Critic at Large premiere of "The Civil War" will be at Webster University, beginning Friday, when Burns will be present to introduce the first episode of the series. (See accompanying schedule.) "The Civil War" is an unprecedented achievement In its impact, the documentary series that it is most reminiscent of Is "Eyes on the Prize," but, of course, there was no newsreel footage of the Civil War as there EN BURNS becomes obsessed with pieces of American history and turns his obsessions into memorable documentary films: "The Brooklyn Bridge," "The Statue of Liberty," "Thomas Hart Benton," "Huey Long." nve-miu-tt-iiiui ycais agu, uc went beyond obsession. ABOVE: "Sheridan at 5 Forks" is one of many maps, paintings and drawings used to illustrate Ken Burns' "The Civil War." was of the civil rights movement.

However, still photography was flourishing, and Matthew Brady was only the most famous of many photographers who captured images of the Civil War on glass plates. Burns used 16,000 still photographs for his documentary. In many cases, an image or a part of an image will be on the screen for only a second or two. In others, Burns will treat a panoramic photograph as if he were shooting an event as it occurred, creating a sense of motion by panning from one side to the other, zooming in to isolate an important "I became possessed by the Civil War," he said. "In each of my films, I've tried to illuminate tiny corners of American life.

In each case, I saw how the Civil War played a part in it. The roots of the Civil War go back to pre-Revolutionary days, when the first black indentured servants were brought to this country, and its influences are with us to this day. C. Runaway slave called Moses by the people who followed her north to freedom on the Underground Railroad. "The Civil War is the most important event in our history.

More than 1 figure, pulling back to show the scene in its entirety. He also uses dozens of maps, paintings and drawings (in the 1860s, newspapers were unable to reproduce photographs and sent artists to cover battles). There is never any "reconstruction," in the sense of dressing up actors in Civil War uniforms, yet Burns is able to give us an eerie sense of being a part of a historic event. "We never seem to be able to get down to the real i story about our time of near national suicide, when we had to tear our nation apart in order to make it a whole. 19 KEN BURNS D.

Confederate spy known as La Belle Rebelle. 600,000 of us died as a result of it, more Americans than have been killed in all our other wars combined. But we never seem to be able to get down to the real story about our time of near national suicide, when we had to tear our nation apart in order to make it a whole. The human story usually gets lost in all the debate about causes and effects. For the past 5lt years, I've worked 15 hours a day to tell this story." The result is "The Civil War," a magnificent, nine-episode, 1 1-hour epic that will be shown from Sept.

23-27 on public television. But St. Louisans will have an opportunity to see it next week, and on a theater screen. Burns said in a recent interview with the Post-Dispatch, "I'm a film maker. 'The Civil War' was shot on film, not videotape.

My films are made to be shown on television, but I want them to be seen in theaters as well." In recent years, Burns, who is 36 years old and lives in New Hampshire, has made several visits to Webster University to show his documentaries and comment on them. This time, the five-day public Here is the schedule for "The Civil War." Most episodes are about an hour in length. Episodes 1 and 5 last about an hour and a half. All showings will be in Winifred Moore Auditorium, 470 East Lockwood Avenue, Webster Groves. For ticket information, call 968-7487.

Friday, July 13. At 8 p.m. Episode U1861 "The Cause." Saturday, July 14. At 5 p.m. Episode 1 repeated.

At 8 p.m. Episode 2:1862 "A Very Bloody Affair," followed by Episode 3: 1 862 "Forever Free." Sunday, July 15. At 1 p.m. Episode 1 repeated. At 3 p.m.

Episodes 2 and 3 repeated. At 6 p.m. Episode 4: 1863 "Simply Murder." At 8 p.m. Episode 5: 1863 "The Universe of Battle." Monday, July 16. At 8 p.m.

Episode 6: 1864 "Valley of the Shadow of Death." Followed by Episode 7: 1864 "Most Hallowed Ground." Tuesday, July 17, At 8 p.m. Episode 8: 1865 "War Is Hell." Followed by Episode 9: 1865 "The Better Angels of Our Nature." His method is to return to a battlefield on the same day of the year and time of day that the fighting began. He often sets the scene by showing us the sun rising over a peaceful forest or farm (it's astonishing how many Civil War battles were fought in places that are still sparsely settled) and then, as the spoken narrative describes the preparations for battle, we hear artillery rounds exploding in the distance and bugles blowing. As the battle proceeds, Burns shows us what is about to happen on maps and then moves his camera through fields and over rocky ridges in duplication of the deployment of soldiers a century and a quarter ago. See CIVIL WAR, Page 10 "Furling the Flag," by Richard Norris Brooke.

E. Graduate of West Point, class of 1861, who rose to be a general and came to believe in his own invincibility. Answers on Page 10 JERRY BERGER Talbot's Petites Coming To Plaza Frontenac In September jf 1 matter what was done, the station can only improve its listenership 3 percent. The station is doomed toj remain a minor facility because the signal won't even cover the total market. The station went bankrupt, not because of the music it played, but because few could hear it" MOVING ON: Does Fox talk to CBS? Shirley Gaff-1 ney, assistant to Barry Baker at Channel 30, is engaged to Frank Quitonl, director of Olympic operations fori CBS Sports in N.Y.

Nupts are set for Aug. 18 here Dental maven Michael Kalish will middle-aisle it with fitness consultant Terl Steinbach in 1991. They were Just ringed the other night The Grill at the Ritz-Carlton was where Monique and Frank Cusumano the sports anchor with WLEX-TV 1 in Lexington, celebrated their third anny, with: his parents, Mary Grace and Frank Cusumano; and pals Dr. John Candice and his wife, Yota, of YPC Interior Designs 'Midst a flurry of lawsuits, the billboard cafe, 614 North Eleventh Steet, has shuttered. BOTTOMING OUT: The scene: the Valley Park Post Office.

The time: Tuesday morning. The event: A man arrives to pay 10 cents on a postage-due letter. The reaction from the clerk: "At last an honest man!" The comeback from the man: "It's easy to be honest for a dime." quipping to former partner James V. LaBarbara, "I haven't told her yet, but she's being docked for taking off the time." ON THE AIR: "Kiss a Comrade" is the theme of a contest that begins airing on KSD-FM's "The Breakfast Club" at 7 a.m. Tuesday.

It will allow a listener to win a date with Victor Sachs, 20, who served as interpreter for the show's broadcasts May 1-2 from the Soviet Union. In town for a reunion with the crew, Sachs will make the rounds with the show's J.C Corcoran, Joe "Mama" Mason, Ray Hartman (of the Riverfront Times), station drumbeater Scott Strong and program director John Larson. A must-see on the list of stops Tuesday night is P.T.'s, across the water. Explained Corcoran: "The venture in Illinois is solely to demonstrate to our Soviet visitor the ease of interstate travel in America. But, as long as we're there, I might as well show him pasties!" River City Television's bid (up to $7 million, according to insiders) to buy KSTZ radio from the bankruptcy court could result In many changes.

If River City, headed by Barry Baker, lands the station, he said the call letters will change to market it as a Fox radio station. "We'll go after the same demographics, adults 18-49, as the Fox Television Network," said Baker, whose River City also owns Channel 30, a Fox affiliate. KSTZ's format is adult-contemporary. Offered an industry observer: "When the folks who owned KEZK had previously planned to buy KSTZ, they conducted an intensive analysis of the station. They concluded that no FASHION CORNER: Talbot's stores of high fashion for women, based in Hingham, will bow a unit of its pilot store specializing in small sizes, Talbot's Petites, in September at Plaza Frontenac.

The store will be situated in the space vacated by Bruno Magli. With petites looming as a hot fashion item, can a store targeting big women be far from opening at the mall? Dunno, but one thing's certain! Bissinger's French Confections in a tiny, 600-square-foot hallway space at Plaza Frontenac grossed about $500,000 in 1989 (now, that's a lot of calories!) You've heard of the swallows of Capistrano and the pigeons of New York? Well, meet the sparrows of City Hall. That's right! The other day during construction near the rotunda, a flock of sparrows was spied by visitors there. Apparently the birds were flushed out of an air duct A one-year study of a drug to help control incontinence is under way by Dr. Gerald M.

Mahon at St. Louis University Hospital. The assistant professor of internal medicine, in the division of geriatric medicine, is seeking women 60 and older to participate in the study. Patients will be treated for eight weeks, and those completing the program and benefiting from the drug will be supplied with free medication indefinitely. Interested? Call 577-8462.

BERGER BEAT: Megan Shanahan, a marketing researcher at Engineered Air Systems, married lawyer David Mattern last week at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel after Tom Tussey Newlyweds Megan and David Mattern. Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes. The daughter of Michael F. Shanahan, Engineered's chairman and general partner of the hockey Blues, and, Mary Ann Shanahan winged with her groom to Hawaii for their honeymoon. Maid of honor was Megan's sister, Maureen, and brother Michael Shanahan Jr.

was the groomsman. The newlyweds rode up to the hotel in a horse-drawn carriage for the dinner-reception for 370 guests. Overheard at the reception was the father of the bride.