The independent film "Judy Berlin" has one of the main characters as an
interpreter at Old Bethpage Village.  Having started out in living
history, I enjoyed the strangeness of the overlapping of contemporary life
when it invades the perfomative space of the museum and vice versa.  A
young man visits the museum and encounters the young woman he is
interested in as she does a milking demonstration or some other such
historical activity, and then they meet afterwards in a restaurant even
though she still has her 19th century costume on.  Unfortunately it comes
across as part of the pathetic descent of the town and the desperation and
disappointment of the young adults in the film.  Still, it captured the
muted surreality that living history sometimes creates.

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