The red carpet will be rolled out, the lights on the marquee will glow, and Saving Brinton will premiere on the screen of the State Theater this Sunday.

Saving Brinton is an 87-minute long documentary the revolves around Frank Brinton in Washington at the turn of the 20th century showing films across the Midwest and local historian Michael Zahs who rescued those films and brought them back to life. The documentary opened in June in Washington, D.C., and will make it’s Iowa debut Sunday in the same theater Brinton used, which has been named the oldest continuously operating cinema in the world by Guinness Book of World Records.

Zahs says the history involved is important and they are receiving requests to show Saving Brinton from coast to coast, “We’re so close to it, that I don’t think we understand how much of a worldwide importance it is, and how much its part of everybody’s history.”

The documentary was made by Tommy Haines, John Richard and Andrew Sherburne in Iowa City. Sherburne explains in addition to featuring Zahs and Brinton, the film features the local area, “Part of the goal that we had all along was to show Mike’s life and Mike’s Iowa, and Washington County is very much the place where he lives. He told us, I think, the first week we met him that history is half geography. It was always important to show off Washington County as part of the film, and there’s plenty of it.” The Sunday show has sold out, but tickets for Monday’s screening can be purchased through the theater.