Saving Brinton

History teacher and collector Mike Zahs uncovers a trove of nineteenth-century showreels from one of America's first motion picture impresarios, William Franklin Brinton, who popularized movies in the Midwest. As Zahs sets out to restore Brinton's reels, he creates a portrait of an unlikely folk hero. Saving Brinton offers a meditation on the legacy of illusionist Frank Brinton, as well as the magic of living history.