Inside of the Museum of Moving Image on the third floor there were tons of old movie memorabilia that show cased the origins of film. The way our tour was set up was to narrate the beginning of film, how it has grown out through history, and the big impact it has today. Our group started off in the beginning where the tour guide showed us a bunch of contraptions with names I’ve forgotten. She told us the history on how someone came up with the idea of combining consistent pictures and putting them together with speed in order to fool the eye into making it move. Example being the running man, in order to see the moving picture of the man running you have to pull the crank to see the pictures come together and fools the eye. Making the viewer to believe that there is movement taking place. From there on we went to a replica of the Penny Arcades that were popular in the earliest of the nineteen hundreds. Our tour guide and Dr. Rheuban explained how cameras were used to make movies by pictures and not film at the time. It’s interesting since when you look through a peep hole of a nickelodeon it’s like watching a flipbook with well drawn characters that are brought to life. Sure there was no sound, dialogue, or anything for that matter. I got to see “A Trip to The Moon” which is consider to be the first science fiction movie ever made and I enjoyed it. I tried my best setting my mentality and mind of the average viewer of the early nineteen hundreds. Like I’ve mention before there were no sound, but that didn’t stop me from making up the dialogue on how the astronauts planed on getting to the moon. It’s amazing, even with something so primitive can hold a lot of value of the viewer with an open mind.
After the penny arcades we went through the hall of film cameras and how they have a major impact in movie making. Thanks to Edison along with European inventors created projectors and cameras with film. Now allowing film makers to bring their images to life by recording the action that’s being taken place. It was interesting to see how these cameras change through time from big cameras like the ones that were displayed made by Edison. To the small ones that were used by documenters and journalists during WW2. After that we went through the recording booth and discuss the transition of sound in movies. Sound has always existed in film during the golden age of movies just wasn’t able to synchronized it yet. We went from adding sound FX to Brandon dubbing “Babe” we’ve learned how modern movies use sound to convey what is going on in the film. Also we’ve get to see the huge microphone filmmakers use to put sound in movies. Unlike before where the microphone had to be close or the actors had to be in a small room saying their dialogues. Now there is a portable microphone that can travel where the actors are going and can record their lines on a safe yet reachable distance. After that we went through the editing room and see how editors do their magic and our tour guide explains why they’re always someone in production yelling take two. It’s to give the editor which take to use in the final project.
After that we went through a memorabilia of horror movies that were actually prompts used during filming. Like Freddy’s sweater, the prompt of the excursus, etc. With the existence of editing and special effects filmmaker’s imagination are beyond the sky’s limit. After that we traveled to the second floor where we saw a collection of old Star Wars/Star Trek figures behind the glass case. Our tour guide asks us as to why these big franchises hold a special meaning to us. To me they represent of an ongoing achievement of human agriculture and creativity.
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