Snooty’s museum home hosts film series
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Exterior of the South Florida Museum in Bradenton. e museum will celebrate its 65th anniversary with a film festival featuring films produced in 1948, the year in which the museum was founded.
PHOTO COURTESY OF BOK TOWER GARDENS
The Pinewood Frog Fountain and nearby grotto were designed to provide an interesting vista from the Mediterranean home which is located within the Bok Tower Gardens.
Founded in 1948, Bradenton’s South Florida Museum, which also is home to the Parker Aquarium (home of Snooty, the world’s oldest manatee in captivity) and Bishop Planetarium, will feature films released in 1948 during its 2013 film series.
The series began Jan. 11 with “Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” a 126-minute long film directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart as a destitute prospector who strikes gold in Mexico.
