Museum of the Moving Image

This was my first visit to MOMI, and I was really looking forward to the trip. I love anything movie or TV related, so seeing  things like actual costumes used in movies, like Mrs. Doubtfire and Mildred Pierce, was something I found so interesting!

However because this was a school trip we were given a tour that mainly focused on the progression of technology of the movie image. We saw an original film camera, that was 100 years old. This speific camera physically looks completely different from the rest; it looks more or less like a wooden box. However it did have characteristics that made it obvious that it was a camera, like the lens and was how it was resting on a tripod. But as time went on cameras changed, and became more advance; lenses became larger, the film had more space which in turn means more film, longer shooting periods. Also things like color film became part of the picture. From looking at the cameras we then moved on to the TVs. There was an array of different TVs on display, some were clearly a TV but others looked more like a radio with a very very small white screen. Our tour guide mention how in the past TVs were more of a piece of furniture and blended more in households then being the center of the room like they tend to be in living rooms now.

My trip to MOMI makes me want to go back and explore more freely at the other exhibits they have to offer. 

 

These images above are two that I took on the trip, the one on the left is the old film camera I mentioned above. The image on the right is the an array of different TVs.