A Michigan man’s family heirlooms have led to the re-discovery of a more than 100-year-old film by an early pioneer of cinema.
Jenison resident Bill McFarland describes his great-grandfather’s old storage trunks as a metaphorical “albatross” that had been around his neck for many years.
“The one trunk was all films, and the other trunk was projection equipment that have been in garages and my barn and cellars, and I have moved it so many times,” he said.
His great-grandfather named W.D. Frisbee was somewhat of a jack-of-all-trades in the late 19thand early 20thcenturies, teaching in a one-room schoolhouse, farming, doing odd jobs and traveling around Pennsylvania and neighboring states showing movies from the just nascent film industry…