Museum of the Moving Image

           My trip to the Museum of the Moving Image was very special. It was my first time going and I had a blast. While walking through and experiencing all the exhibitions there was a lot of things that I hadn’t seen in real life about movie production. For example the effort that it took for sound construction in the early to mid-1900’s for feature films. I had no idea that they had to build these elaborate sound stages that took up acres and acres of land in order to complete movies. It was a great perspective as to how far we have come in the movie making process. Another personal favorite was the exhibition of the primitive way we projected movies with the old spools. Seeing the old instruments up close gives you a deeper sense of how difficult it was to do everything back in the day also makes you appreciate the craftsmen who made them.    However what intrigued me the most was the costume design section and the team of contributors that it takes for one feature. Almost all designs back then were made especially for the movie where as now characters wear something that you are most likely to see in a retail store. The best little piece of trivia that I learned was about Marlon Brando’s Godfather character and how his cheeks were essentially made in a dentist’s office by Dick Smith and Henry Dwork. All in all it was a tremendous mind opening experience that I hope to re do.