Museum of the Moving Image
The museum provided a pleasant experience with very nice exhibitions. I learned a couple of different things as I walked through the various displays. I did not know how much work actually goes into making even the simple films with no special effects. The floor plans that I saw on the second floor conveyed how they put a lot of research into how the film locations would look. Every detail was crafted very intricately.
The use of prosthetics and costumes were all carefully crafted as well. It showed me that anything is possible in the film world if hard work and dedication is put into it. Furthermore, I enjoyed seeing the behind the scenes equipment, looking at all the old cameras. One of the microphones on the third floor was on an enormous boom pole and and entire trolly system that it was attached to seemed like several hundred pounds. The cameras and projectors were also very huge. It is one thing to hear about it books of how large they were but to actually get to see them in person is an experience entirely in itself. I can't imagine myself making a film with these equipment; I'm sure it would be fun but it would take a lot of creative smarts to pull it all together. It is always refreshing to see that the film makers of that era were so limited but yet created brilliant works of art.
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