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About Saving Brinton

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Not rated
Year Released:
2017
Format:
Virtual
Genres:
Drama
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In a farmhouse basement on the Iowa countryside, eccentric collector Mike Zahs made a remarkable discovery: the showreels of the man who brought moving pictures to America’s Heartland. The Brinton Collection contains films from the life and career of William Franklin Brinton of Washington, Iowa, an itinerant showman, travelling from Texas to Minnesota to project film, and other entertainments during the years 1895–1909. Brinton was an eccentric and energetic individual, and this collection preserves some of the earliest commercially available film. From thousands of trinkets, handwritten journals, receipts, posters, and catalogs emerges the story of an inventive farmboy who became America’s greatest barnstorming movieman.

 

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