Trip to The MOMI

On November 25th, I visited the MOMI in Queens, NY. This museum had props and costumes from movies like "Mrs. Doubtfire" & "Beverly Hills Cop". In the MOMI, they show how film came about, all the transitions and changes the film world went through and how it changed the world. There were rooms that showed the evolution of a television set, movie cameras, how people once saw movies (in black & white, movie theaters, etc.) and movie sets. This museum also had rooms to show how movie production worked. I participated in the voice overs; voice overs are important because if during filming sound is distorted in any way, you can go behind the scenes into a production studio and record whatever lines got messed up. Also, if you need to replace certain curse words for a clean version of a movie or show, you can record over the original take and add it into the movie. The way we experience moving images today is different than when moving images were once created. Moving images started as simple flip books; pictures drawn on sheets of paper in different poses or positions to make them appear as if they are moving. Moving images were also once projected through magic lanterns which were popular in the 18th century. The magic lanterns had slides that you would change to see different images. Today, moving images are as simple as a movie; Apple has a live setting on the camera so that you can see what happens prior to snapping the actual photo, this is a moving image. Without constant advancing technology, we wouldn't have many motion pictures today or television shows. Thanks to movie production,moving image technology will always give us the best of the best.