[3] In a farmhouse basement on the Iowa countryside, eccentric collector Mike Zahs makes a remarkable discovery: the showreels of the man who brought moving pictures to America's Heartland.
Among the treasures are a rare footage of President Teddy Roosevelt, the first moving images from Burma, and a lost relic from magical effects godfather Georges Méliés.
From thousands of trinkets, handwritten journals, receipts, posters and catalogs emerges the story of an inventive farmboy who became a barnstorming movieman.
Wesley Morris, critic-at-large for The New York Times, calls the film "celebratory... poignant" and that "the average documentary would gawk.
This one reclassifies" [4] Pamela Hutchinson of The Guardian depicts the film as an "absorbing, heartwarming tale" and that "there’s genuine warmth to the documentary.