Special Project: MOMI activity

During your visit to the Museum of the Moving Image, you must have realized that both the layout of the museum and the course of the guides' tour create a narrative. Discuss what you understood that narrative to be and what your reaction (positive, negative, skeptical) is to this narrative.

What I understood from our visit to the Museum of the Moving Image in regards to the layout and the tour was that it was trying to tell us the story of the moving image. I first noticed this because our tour (the group I was with at least), started with the phenakistoscope, which was one of the first inventions used in the creation of movies and film. We quickly followed through with other later inventions like the penny arcade, the radio, and the television. I thought this was very interesting because the tour drew you in and made you want to know what the earlier inventions had evolved into. It was especially enjoyable when we got to see how some more recent films (Freddy Krueger, The exorcist, etc.), were built using older techniques that seemed almost completely irrelevant until they were applied. It was a really great experience, and I hope to visit again one day! =)