American Museum of the Moving Image

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American Museum of the Moving Image

The film museum Museum of the Moving Image (translated "Museum of Moving Images") is located in Queens , New York City on the former site of the Kaufman Astoria film studio .

history

The museum collects and displays a wide variety of artifacts that, in the broadest sense, have to do with the history, production, distribution and representation of film and television. The permanent exhibition also pays close attention to the importance of the applied technology that is to be brought closer to the visitor, including with audiovisual and interactive elements. There is also a significant collection of video games and game consoles .

The museum program includes themed weeks with archive material, as well as current film screenings and lectures, as well as performances by directors, actors and film researchers.

The museum emerged from the Astoria Motion Picture and Television Center Foundation, which took over the former Kaufman Studios in 1970 to save the listed building where numerous films had been shot since the silent film era. The public should have access to the studio and learn about its history. When it opened in 1988, the pure film museum was the first of its kind in the USA. The British Museum of the Moving Image of the same name opened a little later in London. The movie theater of the New York Museum was very modern by the standards of the time. In addition to film screenings, a TV lounge offered the opportunity to watch old TV programs from the early days .

In 2005, the museum received part of a $ 20 million donation from Carnegie Corporation .

The museum has been expanding since 2008 in order to cope with the growing number of visitors. The permanent exhibition will remain open during the renovations, screenings and events will be outsourced, and the collection will continue to be accessible to film scholars .

Since July 2017 there is a new permanent exhibition about the life achievement of the “compulsively creative” Jim Henson .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ About the Museum . Museum of the Moving Image. 2008. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
  2. ^ William Weir: Museum of the Moving Image Highlights Technique, Technology . In: Hartford Courant . 2008-03-23. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
  3. ^ Jason Hill: Museum Piece . In: The Sydney Morning Herald . 2008-03-06. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
  4. ^ Museum of the Moving Image - Programs. In: www.movingimage.us. Retrieved February 14, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Jack Mathews: In Queens, a Pioneering Studio . In: Newsday . Archived from the original on May 12, 2008. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
  6. ↑ C. Gerald Fraser: Kock Predicts Astoria Studio's Rebirth; Began with Silent Films . In: The New York Times . 1980-09-06. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
  7. ^ John Gross: About the Arts: New York; Two New Museums Offer a Contrast: British Brashness vs. American Reserve . In: The New York Times . 1988-10-02. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
  8. ^ Andrew L. Yarrow: Museum of Moving Image Celebrates All Video Forms . In: The New York Times . 1988-09-09. Retrieved March 23, 2008.
  9. ^ New York Times: City Groups Get Bloomberg Gift of $ 20 million . Retrieved November 8, 2010.
  10. ↑ Kate Taylor: A Bit of Glamor for MMI . In: The New York Sun . 2008-02-27. Retrieved March 24, 2008.
  11. ↑ "Obsessively creative": New New York permanent exhibition on Muppets Master Henson ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Deutschlandfunk Kultur on July 29, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ondemand-mp3.dradio.de

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