Blog #4: Visit to the Museum of Moving Image

Ashley Roth 11/22/17 During the trip to the Museum of Moving Image, there were many interactive exhibits I participated in. One of those exhibits was an exhibit where I used Automated Dialogue Replacement over a films dialogue. I said the words that the screen was displaying and it recorded my voice over the actors voice. I learned that the dialogue that is recorded while filming might need to be recorded over again due to complications such as unwanted noise or an actor messing up their lines. I learned that this process happens in a studio after filming. Another interactive exhibit I participated in was spinning the Thaumatrope and Zoetrope. It was interesting to spin the devices that I learned about in lecture. It was interesting to hear that the Thaumatrope was invented in 1825 by John Ayrton Paris. Changes in moving image technology changed the way people view movies and motion. I was able to see a visual representation of this by spinning these old fashioned ways of viewing motion. After walking through the exhibits, I was able to see all of the old fashioned cameras. It was fascinating to see how far film has evolved. I saw old TV sets and video cameras that were bulky and only displayed black and white images. Technology has developed so much where we have high tech color video cameras and TV’s today. One of the video cameras I learned about was the Three Strip Technicolor Camera which was the first full color commercially practical camera. Another one was the Arriflex 35mm handheld camera which allowed exact framing during photography. It is interesting to see some movie props like the striped shirt that belonged to Freddy Krueger and it was gigantic. It was very cool to see how something that appears small on screen is huge in real life. It was great to see the actual masks from famous movies (Chewbacca, Jim Carrey’s ‘The Mask’), the Regan life sized doll from The Exorcist and the Muppet and Sesame Street puppets. I enjoyed learning about how these props were made with molds and what materials were used to create these props.