Natural History Museum
900 Exposition Blvd
213.763.3466
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The Flying Serpent (1946)
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Sunday July 26, 2009 (2pm)
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$9 / Free with museum admission
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Featuring a Bela Lugosi-esque "mad archeologist" and Mesoamerican god Quetzalcoatl, the classically bad B-movie, The Flying Serpent prompts history and science educators at the Natural History Museum to examine both the real and the fantastic aspects of its plot. Andrew Forbes (George Zucco) sets the titular god-creature — and centerpiece of the recently ubiquitous 2012 cosmology — against his colleagues in order to secure "a fabulous fortune guarded by reptilian death!" The Museum's Jennifer Saracino points out certain, um, scientific fallacies within the film, simultaneously illuminating real historical facts about the civilizations of not-so-ancient Mesoamerica.
