This week I went to the Museum of the Moving Image located in Astoria, Queens. Here you get to see the history of film making and entertainment industry.
When you enter the museum there are three floors. On the first floor you get to see an old screening of black and white movie. Not much to see here. Once you pass that, you’ll enter into a different part of the museum. Movies props and some famous actors are displayed on walls and display cases. Here you also see vintage posters of movies that I never heard or seen before. However there were some that caught my eyes. A section dedicated to star wars with its figurines and posters.
Next was makeup that artists used on actors for special effects. It was surprising how makeup can create realistic injuries, scars, or unnatural skin tones. Along the way there was a small movie theater that play a film on World War II. Not that exciting to be honest.
On the next floor you see a timeline of what is used to film or record. Judging from what I saw, I think today’s cameras are more advanced and more portable from the old days. As I ventured in there was a section on how live TV is broadcasted. For example, on a live baseball game there is actually a command center that give out commands to different camera operators. This basically means they can control what people see on live. After that I was given a chance to create my own “movie”. This movie is 
actually a moving image where you take picture of images and take them along as you move them. Overall this museum is great experience especially if you bring a friend along and you get to learn a thing or two.