The Brinton Collection is a collection of early cinematography that was used by William Franklin Brinton (1857–1919) for his traveling show in the Midwestern United States.
[2] Brinton later married Indiana Putman, health food advocate and nudist.
[1] It was preserved[3] and discovered by history teacher, Michael Zahs, in a barn in Ainsworth, Iowa.
[4] The collection included footage of Teddy Roosevelt,[5] the world's first newsreel involving the 1900 Galveston hurricane[6] and works by Georges Méliès[7] that were thought to have been lost: The Wonderful Rose-Tree and The Triple-Headed Lady.
The collection's history was recounted in a film documentary, Saving Brinton, in 2018.