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Blog #4 Museum of Moving Images

My trip to the Museum of Moving Image this week was a memorable one. It was my first time visiting and I thought it was very nice. The tour guides there were very knowledgable and when we started our tour they had informed us about the history of the building. As we made our way into the museum we stopped along the way viewing old TV’s and learning about how film was viewed on them. At first rich people had them in their homes but eventually TV’s made there way into every home. We then made our way deeper in and got to view the thaumatrope and zoetrope which was cool because we learned about these devices in class. We learned that these devices work by creating moving images with high speed movements and adding little bit of darkness to create the effect. The coolest and most interesting part of the museum that we got to see was the Feral Fount. The device spun and used a strobe light to create movement between the objects. The objects act the same as a flip book where every section of it moves “page by page” or in this case row by row. Its like a stop motion picture in a sense. The strobe light is absolutely necessary in this piece because it allows our brains to process what is going on section by section. We also got to see how prosthetics are made and why they are used. This was also cool and in a way explains how movies are all a big illusion.