Last week was the first time I went to see the Museum Of Moving Image and it was located in Astoria, Queens. It didn't take long for me to get there at all since I live in Jamaica. Anyway, I saw my group as I got there waiting for the 12 noon tour on Friday and I was starting to get a bit anxious to get in and see what they have to show us.
It was time to go in and the woman who was presenting everything on the tour came and showed us around. We first started looking at a 5 second movie with a muscle man flexing himself. It was a wooden machine that acts as a small movie reel in the movie theater. I stood over the machine and saw the muscle man and we also looked inside the machine to see long strips of film moving on the inside. Afterwards, we saw the evolution of the radio and television. We saw from its early days when radio was the only entertainment there can be to the invention of T.V. and how it replaced radio as a new medium.
Most of the tour continued with the evolution of movies, starting with the examples that we saw in class like the Zoetroupe(?). What I mean is the bird and the cage when you flip the circle, the bird is in the cage. The other example is the one when you look at a five seconds movie by spinning the container and looking at the side to people a person jumping over another person. Along the way, we also talked about Muybridge and how he was the first person to created feature films. There were a lot of things we talked about like costumes, makeup, CGI, and merchandise.
There was one thing I didn't know about film and that was this big structure that had clay objects in the end of some metal wires. When you turn off the lights, it forms a very cool claymation from a water drop to a bomb, into a hand then melts into a paper plane and that paper plane crashes into a plate at the bottom. I did one of the demonstrations which was how stop motion was created using papers characters. When I was done, it turned out great but it took a long time to get it done.
That's my trip and I hope to be there again.
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