The Field Museum heads to the Music Box Theatre on a few field trips! These educational and entertaining events combine film and cinema and go behind Hollywood. Join us to delve into the reality and science behind the silver screen!

Join The Field Museum at the Music Box Theatre for a special series of film screenings dedicated to diving into the science behind some of Hollywood’s greatest blockbusters. For each of these screenings The Field Museum will bring science professionals and lecturers to the Music Box Theatre to introduce the films and provide a forum for discussion following the film. So grab your backpack and your notebook for this amazing series that partners two great Chicago Institutions!

Creature From The Black Lagoon – Sunday, November 15th at Noon
*Presented with Paul Mayer, Collections Manager of Fossil Invertebrates*

With a prehistoric mystery afoot, Paul Mayer will lead the discussion in unearthing the science behind this creature feature. Paul received his Bachelor of Science at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and his Masters of Science at Oregon State University – Corvallis. He worked for ten years at the Milwaukee Public Museum, two seasons at the Grand Canyon National Park, and has now been at the Field Museum for nearly eight years. During his career he has split his time between researching Devonian and Silurian brachiopod fossils, educating the public about Midwest paleontology, and digitizing collections. As a kid he loved to go fishing and watch monster movies. His favorites wereKing Kong, Godzilla, anything with dinosaurs in it, and Creature from the Black Lagoon. Paul says, “I got the idea that I wanted to be a paleontologist at a museum while watching theses movies. I remember in Creature from the Black Lagoon that the fossilized hand they find is from the Devonian Period and as it turns out Devonian fossils are what I study, a strange coincidence.”

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