Live Magic Lantern with Historian Mike Zahs
- Wed, Nov 20, 2024
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Live Magic Lantern Performance
Run Time: 90 min.
Experience what cinema was like before the advent of motion pictures as historian and collector Mike Zahs presents a live Magic Lantern show. In this immersive event, Zahs will recreate these historic projected shows of the 1800s. Zahs was featured in the 2017 documentary Saving Brinton about his heroic efforts to preserve the slides, films, and archives of the media entrepreneur William Franklin Brinton of Washington, IA. Presented by Des Moines Film and Drake University’s Anderson Gallery.
For more information about the Anderson Gallery’s exhibition, Acts of Projection: Magic Lantern Shows and the U.S. Civil War, visit the link below.
https://andersongallery.wp.drake.edu/currentexhibition/