MOMI visit

When I visited the Museum of the Moving Image, I felt a wave of nostalgia, I got to check out my old favorite exhibits I had enjoyed as a kid. I was amazed that though so much had changed since my childhood there was still so much that had stayed the same. After admiring the new entrance and facade of the building I went inside was greeted with a display of old black and white photos of famous movie stars and then I sought out my old favorite exhibits. I was delighted to see that the exhibits like the Freddy's sweater from Nightmare on Elm Street and the makeup from the Elephant Man that had shocked and scared me as a kid were still there, though they didn't seem half as threatening as they did when I was 10. I also was excited to see the old sci-fi exhibits with the original Yoda puppet from Star Wars and the makeup of Chewbacca as well as the practical effects from films like 2001: A Space Odyssey with the monkey limbs. I also spent some time at one of my personal favorite interactive parts of the museum, the exhibit of Georges Milies' 'A Trip to the Moon', I always enjoyed the frame by frame viewer that you could use by turning the hand crank and changing the picture rapidly to create a moving image. I found the fast moving still frames were a fascinating lesson in the relationship between static and dynamic movement in film and media.