museum of moving image

The museum showed a lot of famous memorabilia and old fashion systems that really helped display how technology in media began and in some cases, is still used today. I was particularly interested in the station that showed the live sports editing. I always knew that sports games involved live camera editing but i never knew it was coming from one man in charge calling all the shots. After watching it in the booth it seemed extremely complicated an requires a lot of concentration an quick thinking. The technicolor printer was also pretty interesting. The machine itself was extremely large and looked pretty complicated, but after the tour guide explained how the three film strips get combined into one, it seemed like a much simpler process, and only needed to be controlled by one person.

After finally looking through a real kinetoscope, i was amazed to see how far the moving image technology has come. the viewing hole was extremely small, and the film only lasted about 30 seconds and only had one subject to look at, without a background. The film color itself wasn't even black and white it was more of a sepia color, and the lady explained that the machine was flamable and would blow up sometimes when people watched it. Today we have the comfort of large movie theaters and home theatre system with clear HD movies, without the process of a Technicolor printers and manual editing of the film strips.