Brandon Miller Special Project. MOMI Activity

Brandon Miller
11/09/10
Special Project. MOMI Activity


During our trip to the museum of the moving image, we saw the evolution and progression of movies, film, and the human eye. We started out on the third floor with the start of the production to see a picture move. We saw a wheel with multiple pictures next to a mirror, when it spun we were able to see all the pictures quickly to give it a n appearance that it was moving. We saw the same thing with the spinning hand clay thing and when the light kept blinking we saw it move. As we delved deeper in to the heart of the movie we say early penny arcades and then we saw the slow progression of the first video camera. What was funny about that is that I actually took a video using my camera of all the old cameras. It interesting because almost all the cameras were bigger, heaver and in most cases could not record in color. Meanwhile, my camera fit in my pocket, could take hours of footage and pics, and took only a hours minutes to charge. We then moved deeper to see some of the first editing devices and how they where used, we didn't see to many of these so we moved to the next thing. The next thing we saw were the first early T.V.'s the first view were huge and bulky and black and white, but they came up with smaller more clever cabinets to not only store the t.v but other devices such as radios and such. On the other side of the T.V displays were the the early projection devices to take the movie on the go. As we progressed down to the lower level, we saw how the actors played a bigger part in the latter years and were even given toys and other merchandise based off of them and even given magazine articles. So the reason of the museum for the layout was to show the way that the moving image slowly advanced over the years, from multiple pictures spinning, to HD 3D mega blockbusters that last 3 hours the museum did a great job of showing it evolve and grow.