My trip to the Museum of Moving Image

When I went to the museum of moving image I experienced a lot about media there. I started at the third floor and worked my way down. My favorite floor in the museum was when I was in the third floor because there were the most demos there. 

One of the demos I sampled were the mutoscopes. A mutoscope is a flip book presenting moving pictures. One of them had "A Trip to the Moon" by George Melies, made in 1902. In that moving picture a ship is about to hit the moon, and there are military people doing a brief presentation for it. Then a girl with a flag and a man with a trumpet walk to the front. They put a rocket in, they wave their hands, and it launches and hits the moon. The other one was "Hells Kitchen" made by Charlie Chaplain. That moving image shows two actors eating, then fighting, and then throwing food.

The zoetrope introduced in 1834 was very interesting to me because it displays still images as moving images through the open slots when the drum spins. The phenakistoscope was introduced by Joseph Antoine Plateau. When I looked through the slots at the reflected image while spinning the discs I was amazed at how it really looked like the still image was moving.

It is very interesting to see how much film and audio have evolved throughout the years. It is impressive to see the many creative ways that audio is used today, considering that audio was not even used before. I find it exciting to see a flip book from the early 1900s and to see a film today, the difference is remarkable.

My favorite demo in this museum is the "Automated Dialogue Replacement" it was exciting to see Marilyn Monroe acting in the film "Sugar Kane" with my voice over. This museum was very fun and I cannot wait to go back.