Even though I didn't go with the class, I still had a great time at the museum of moving image.
I got a friend to go with me during spring break.
We're both enjoy learning and playing video games so that exhibit really sparked our interest.
I really love arcade machines and hope to maybe own one someday.
Seeing the old school machines made me realize how far we've come with technology.
The arcade machines were essentially giant cathode ray tubes in which you can interact with through your controls.
For asteroids, you're a ship moving around in space trying to blow up asteroids so you don't blow up. Whenever you shot a projectile to explode the rocks, there was a trail that would follow but it was a trail of dots. I think it's the CRT essentially printing the image on the screen and it leaves a slight fade on the screen and it doesn't instantly disappear.
I also really liked playing with the old unique contraptions that came about before animation, like the picture of the bird and the bird cage on the other side, where if you wind it up it would spin and seem like a bird in a cage or the other spinning thing with the man running.
The editing portion is also really cool, being able to dub over clips or make sound effects for them was really fun.
Seeing the collection of costumes and different artifacts were really amazing too. Movies back then heavily relied on costumes and make up for their actors. Even today good costumes are a necessity for movies.
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