Museum of Moving Image-Blog post #4

The Museum of Moving Image is a great place to go and get to see up close and personal film artifacts. From the outside the museum is extremely cool looking, very futuristic. The building and decorations themselves were artsy and lobby was white and modern looking. I got to see the exhibit Behind the screen, which was pretty interesting. Getting to see artifacts from different films (some I have watched and others I haven't), was exciting seeing as you don't always get that chance. The exhibits main focus seemed to be on the various parts of movie making and how all those parts fit together to create on screen magic. I was able to see items that were either created by writers, customer designers, makeup artist, production teams and actors/actresses. My all time favorite part  was the Star Wars artifacts-they had figurines and vintage toys, which I wanted to steal from the museum and take home. They had a Yoda statue and Chewbacca's costume head from Star Wars Episode IV. I am a huge fan of these movies so for me that was super exciting to see. They were selling some Star Trek and Star Wars merchandise-if I wasn't a broke college student I would have actually purchased something. They had the costume head pieces form the movie Mask and (another favorite) Mrs. Doubt Fire. They had the mask from 2001:A Space Odyssey, I saw projection of The Great Train Robbery and used a voice over machine-you were able to place your voice in a movie, such as Marilyn Monroe form Some Like It Hot. They even had some old scripts on display for movies like Citizen Kane. I had watched most of these films in a film 101 class I had taken at Hunter, so it was cool to see. They had costumes such as Cosby's sweater, a dress from Chicago, and the red and silver spacesuit that Robin Williams wore in Mork. They also had a bunch of vintage cameras, projectors and televisions, which gave me a better understanding of what we learn about in class. I also saw a movie pamphlet from Amos n' Andy at Quincy theater-children paid 10 cents and adults 30.I hated the exorcist girl they had on display, I refuse to see that movie and I didn't need to see that creepy thing-there was also Freddy Kroger which I walked past quickly. There was a wall covered in record albums from movies like Grease, Jaws and The Beetles. They even had prototypes of King Kong from the original movies. Another cool artifact was a set model from the movie The Family Man, which is another favorite of mine. Overall, I was able to see a ton of cool artifacts from films I love watching. I'm glad I was able to visit this museum, it was a fun experience. I have been learning about the production of movies and the technology behind them, so it was fun to see firsthand what I have been learning so much about.