Academy Museum, Los Angeles

Mar 18, 2022 | California: Los Angeles Area, Museum

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is a museum in Los Angeles, California constructed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Academy Museum: 6067 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036

The museum is devoted to the film industry’s history, science, and cultural impact. It is the first large-scale museum of its kind in the United States.

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The white building is the museum building, and the gray building is one giant movie theater.

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This multi-screen room shows snippets of famous movies.

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The envelope

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History of Academy Award

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Dorothy Shoes in “The Wizard of Oz”

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Dorothy Clothes

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History of pre-cinematic devices that lead to the cinema.

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The pinhole camera, the year 1840. This device led to the development of the first camera.

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The early slide projectors.

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The Projection Praxinoscope is an optical device invented by Émile Reynaud in 1880. This apparatus allows projecting on a screen moving pictures.

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The slides for praxinoscope

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Parlor kinetoscope, another motion picture device.

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The brothers who first commercialized the short movies to audiences.

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One of the ten short one-minute movies produced by the brothers and exhibited in 1895.

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The video clip

Tribute to the Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar.

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This exhibition shows how multiple standing objects can be shown to be moving.

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Ample space is reserved for a tribute to Hayao Miyazaki, but the exhibition does not allow photo taking.

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The roof of the museum building is used for lookout and sitting place.

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