I saw the listing looking for a new museum director, a job that ticks all the boxes for me, so I applied and got it! As Alexander Graham Bell once said, ‘When one door closes, another opens.’”ĭanos has collected wonderful things for the exhibit, among them a replica of the “funny looking ping-pong-balls-for-eyes creature costume from ‘It’s Alive,’ as well as part of a gargoyle statue that sat poised on the roof of the Auditorium during the filming of ‘Pass the Ammo.’” With special events severely impacted by the pandemic, it was time for a change for me. “In addition to being known colloquially as ‘the zombie guy’ and the ‘mad scientist of music’ DJ Testube, I am also a fanatical local history enthusiast.
Together with my wonderful wife Christina, who works at the Eureka Springs Carnegie Public Library, and a handful of amazing volunteers, we have organized numerous special events throughout the years, including the popular Zombie Crawl that benefited the Flint Street Food Bank,” Danos goes on. “We’ve lived here for 15 years now, and built our own home. Big city living was also getting me down, and small-town living was calling to us, but we didn’t find the right kind of small town until we happened upon Eureka Springs. The benefits and pay were great, but I disliked traveling away from my wife and children so often. “I attended Metro State College of Denver and have a fine arts degree with an emphasis in graphic design, but I had fallen into a corporate job working for the phone company. “I was born in New Orleans, but moved to Colorado just in time for high school,” he begins his own history. She is included in the new “Eureka on Film” exhibit at the Eureka Springs Historical Museum. The actress, best known for “Murder Tomorrow” (1938), “Menace” (1934) and “Flame in the Heather” (1935), died on Jan. 11, 1915, in Hartlepool, County Durham, England. “Eureka on Film” opens to museum members at a gala tonight and to the public Monday.ĭanos found the museum job perfectly suited a time in his life when he wanted to do something different. Of course, with Danos having recently become director of operations for the Eureka Springs Historical Museum, the next logical step was to assemble an exhibit.
Eureka Springs has been featured on film since at least the 1920s, so I thought it would be fun to gather what I could find from the various films and actors who have roots in Eureka.” “I have also collected some of my own over the years. “When we screened ‘Pass the Ammo’ in the Aud, we had a huge turnout, and I had lots of folks who told me they had kept memorabilia from these films,” Danos goes on.
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“These films also featured locally sourced extras, and as a result, they are beloved by many longtime Eurekans, regardless of what the professional film critics thought. “Included in the showings were films with local ties, such as 1969’s sci-fi thriller ‘It’s Alive,’ filmed in Onyx Cave, and ‘Pass the Ammo,’ a 1988 Hollywood romp about a scandalous televangelist played by Tim Curry, co-starring Annie Potts and Bill Paxton,” he explains.
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The series he initiated, screened at the Eureka Springs City Auditorium, showcased “campy low-budget flicks that are so bad they’re good,” Danos says.
The 1969 sci-fi thriller “It’s Alive” was filmed in Onyx Cave, and the Eureka Springs Historical Museum has a a replica of the “funny looking ping-pong-balls-for-eyes creature costume” in its new exhibit, “Eureka on Film.”
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