MOMI Visit

In terms of a doing a really good job of explaining a really good history of video and movies, the Museum of the the Moving Image did a great job especially in the many aspects of technological advancements that have happened since the beginning of the 20th century. I was really surprised that they even had Magic Lanterns and a few of the early slides as well. I grew up with an actual Magic Lantern projector in my living room my whole life and my mother has been buying old slides off eBay since I was little as well. It was neat to see where this, useless(well how I always thought of it as a little kid) piece of technology actually fit into history and you could see how it advanced and allowed for later video projectors. The really neat demonstration that my group took part in was the ADR booth. It was really neat to see (in a rather simplified and dumbed-down way) how ADR works and the challenges that come with trying to match your voice and movement of your mouth to exactly how someone else is acting out a line in a movie, commercial or television show. Most of my classmates had a lot of trouble trying to keep up with the speed of Eddie Murphy speaking which was really funny to watch and listen to their fumbling attempts. Despite being dumbed down a good bit it was still a fun demo especially to hear my classmates' voices coming out of a famous actors mouth. MOMI is an awesome museum but kind of unsatisfying. Not that I didn't really, really enjoy, I just didn't feel like there was enough of it but at the same time, there are currently so many moving images in the world, there's no way a single museum could possibly hold all of it. It just felt like there's so much being left out but in order to fit everything you might need ten more museums. It also really needs a history of animation or at least a larger better section on what little animation they actually had there. There's so so much that needs to be there but just isn't.