Leo Beuerman is a 1969 American short documentary film directed by Gene Boomer.
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
[2] It tells the story of Leo Beuerman (1902 – 1974), a diminutive, disabled man who sold pencils and became a fixture on the downtown sidewalks of Lawrence, Kansas in the 1950s and 1960s thanks to his determination.
[3][4] The film was produced by Russell A. Mosser and Arthur H. Wolf of Centron Corporation.
The simple profile of a short handicapped man with his tractor in downtown Lawrence was produced on a budget of $12,000 and eventually became one of the most popular classroom films of all time, selling an impressive 2,300 prints.