Museum of the Moving Image

The Museum of the Moving Image has many exhibitions of collections and historical or cultural film materials that I have never witness before in my life. These collections include historic film and  cameras, projectors, television sets, sound recording equipment, costumes, set design, sketches and toys, models, magazines. There is a wall filled with galleries, pictures of celebrities such as young Charlie Chaplin and Cary Grant. 

There are many things to look at and also many things to learn about. For example, there are historical cameras that dates back from late 1800s to present day. There's even a zoetrope, one of the first Victorian optical toy in 1834, which is a drum and look through the slots at the image moving while it spins. This image starts to motion as it moves in a fast rate through flickering lights.  Films are motion pictures, in other words, they are succession of images moving in a fast rate inside the projector and light passing through the film then on to screen. 

 In the museum we found exhibits and demonstrations relating to how movie works. The intermittent mechanism is a device whereby film is constantly in motion, regularly advance and then held in place for a brief second with a  rotating shutter which causes the light to flicker during the fast succession of images of the film inside the camera or the projector. The flickering light in concert with successive images creates the illusion in our eyes and brain, that the pictures itself are moving on screen.