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 Animation At The Museum Of The Moving Image
One of the first museums in the United Kingdom to employ a full company of actors to entertain and inform guests, MOMI has, through many interactive exhibits, allowed visitors to delve behind the scenes of the magical world of the moving image.
The Museum of the Moving Image will continue to promote and display the work of animators past and present and is committed to supporting vocational training and new animation through BATS and the Channel 4/Museum of the Moving Image Animator in Residence Scheme.
Yvette Burrows is Animation Coordinator at the Museum of the Moving Image and as such is responsible for the Animator-in-Residence Scheme and the British Animation Training Scheme.
www.awn.com /mag/issue2.7/2.7pages/2.7burrowsmomi.html   (917 words)

  
 American Museum of the Moving Image --  Encyclopædia Britannica
museum dedicated to educating the public about the history of film and television arts and about the impact those media have on popular culture.
A research institute that was especially noted for its scientific and literary scholarship, the Museum was built near the royal palace either by Ptolemy II Philadelphus about 280 BC or by his father Ptolemy I Soter (reigned 323–285/283 BC).
The museum was a pioneer in mounting field expeditions and in contemporary museum presentation, creating dioramas and other exhibits with natural habitats.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9343811?tocId=9343811   (994 words)

  
 The Museum of the Moving Image
The Museum of the Moving Image is the nation's only museum devoted to the past, present, and future of movies, television, and digital media.
Moving Image is currently in the early stages of a ten-year initiative that will involve cataloguing and digitizing all of the Museum's intellectual assets.
The project will make almost every aspect of the Museum accessible to audiences around the world helping fulfill its mission to expand public understanding and appreciation of moving images through screenings and dialogues, exhibitions, education programs, and our extensive collection of artifacts.
www.theculturedtraveler.com /Museums/Archives/Museum_Moving_Image.htm   (520 words)

  
 Operating Cameraman Online: Museum of the Moving Image
It is called the "Museum of the Moving Image." This is the world's largest museum devoted to the history and the future of movies and television.
The Museum is the work of two men: National Film Theater Controller Leslie Hardcastle and National Film Archive Curator David Francis, along with British Film Institute Director Anthony Smith and Designer Neil Potter.
These gentlemen worked diligently for 20 years to trace the development of moving images starting thousands of years ago in the Far East and on to the development of the cinema and television.
www.soc.org /opcam/08_sps96/mg08_movimg.html   (815 words)

  
 American Museum of the Moving Image, NYC
The American Museum of the Moving Image tells the story of the innovation and artistry that make the moving image the most powerful artistic and cultural influence of the twentieth century.
The Museum also presents retrospective film series, often accompanied by discussions with the filmmakers themselves, and digital media seminars with industry pioneers.
Education programs for junior high school and high school students connect moving image media with the study of the humanities and sciences.
www.ny.com /museums/american.museum.of.the.moving.image.html   (199 words)

  
 Wired New York Forum - Museum of the Moving Image
The work is reported to include correcting the museum’s heat and humidity levels, which are not ideal for the museum, with water leaks during bad weather.
Along with all the additions, the museum is also dropping “American” from its name and unveiled a new logo designed by Manhattan-based design studio, 2x4.
There was a museum of the moving image in London and that is why they initially used “American” in the name, but it has been closed for a while and it doesn’t appear that it will reopen, she said.
www.wirednewyork.com /forum/printthread.php?t=5714   (431 words)

  
 American Museum of the Moving Image in The NYC Insider: an Insider's Guide to New York City
This museum is dedicated to educating the public about the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media and to examining their impact on culture and society.
It achieves these goals by maintaining the nation's largest permanent collection of moving image artifacts and by offering exhibitions, film screenings, lectures, seminars, and other education programs.
Screenings from their huge collection of movie, TV and advertisement collections are often shown in thematically related groups, such as recent showings of Dick Tracey films and a series on digital effects.
www.theinsider.com /nyc/museums/1ammusth.htm   (257 words)

  
 American Museum of the Moving Image - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Located at the site of the former Astoria Studios (now operating as the Kaufman-Astoria Studios) in the borough of Queens in New York City (USA), the Museum of the Moving Image (originally named the Astoria Motion Picture and Television Center Foundation) was founded in 1977.
Its mission statement is to educate "the public about the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media and to examine their impact on culture and society."
In addition to its revolving and permanent exhibits, the museum features various screenings, seminars, educational programs, and a gift shop with film memorabilia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Museum_of_the_Moving_Image   (197 words)

  
 Connors Communications - Museum of the Moving Image
Museum of the Moving Image PR Case Study
Connors continued its long tradition of public relations campaigns for both entertainment and museums in the summer of 2004 when The American Museum of the Moving Image enlisted us for the launch of its latest online exhibition, The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004.
Days were spent researching the Arts section of the New York Times, developing extensive media lists across multiple verticals, drafting and re-drafting press materials and pulling the most salient topics from Museum curators themselves in mock media interviews.
www.connors.com /case-studies/moving-image.html   (297 words)

  
 MOMI / Museum of the Moving Image, London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
At the Museum of the Moving Image you will find all sorts of information about movies and television.
Also a part of the museum is reserved for Hollywood and it's actors and actresses.
Varying from a producer from late 19th or early 20th century, an actress somewhere in the 1930's who wants to meet some of the famous producers in that period, a Russian actress and a couple of employees from the Odeon cinema.
www.londonpagesonline.com /museums/momi_museum_of_the_moving_image   (238 words)

  
 American Museum of the Moving Image
Or, as they sum it up "educating the public about the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media." The museum is one of the buildings in the 15-acre studio complex in Astoria, Queens built during the 1920s as a production facility.
Hundreds of films and TV shows were made in the studio itself, and tours are available during the week.
The images are turned into a flip book available in the gift show for $2.00.
www.offbeattravel.com /ammi.html   (575 words)

  
 Museum of the Moving Image   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Its success relies not only on the innate appeal of its subject but also the museum's encouragement of participation.
Things really get moving with the dawn of the silent era, followed by a multitude of clips covering cinema's many genres: cartoons, Russian classics (shown in an agitprop train), newsreels and Hollywood favourites.
Along with these, numerous working models allow you to explore the technical aspects of film and TV: fly with Superman, be interviewed by Barry Norman or direct your own animated feature.
www.hartline.net /Baumholder/Image.html   (196 words)

  
 Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) - Museums National Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
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The Museum Of The Moving Image (MOMI for short), next door to the National Film Theater, London is a wonder to behold.
MOMI is a collection of memorabilia from the start of moving pictures to the present day, including films, cartoons, animation (there is a difference) to television and beyond.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /museums-national/museum-of-the-moving-image-momi   (159 words)

  
 American Museum of the Moving Image, New York NY, museum profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
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 MOMI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI) which was situated beneath Waterloo Bridge in London, 1988-1999.
OF A MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE EXHIBITION.
References to "THE MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE" are for purposes of historical review.
easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~s-herbert/explan.htm   (103 words)

  
 Museum of the Moving Image (closed) - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
Museum of the Moving Image (closed) - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
Information published here was believed to be correct at the time it was prepared.
Welsh language pages developed with CYMAL: Museums Archives and Libraries Wales, funded by the Welsh Assembly Government.
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /museum_gfx_en/SE000070.html   (61 words)

  
 Art, Film -- American Museum of the Moving Image
This widely acclaimed institution is the only museum in the United States devoted to the art, history, and technology of motion pictures, television, and video.
Film and video screenings take place in the Museum's Riklis Theater, showing some 500 films and videos each year, in a wide range of categories.
Families will enjoy Museum Tours as well as a variety of special events, screenings and activities that take place throughout the year.
www.fieldtrip.com /ny/87844520.htm   (358 words)

  
 Tim Wick - American Museum of the Moving Image   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The American Museum of the Moving Images uses Science-Fiction to honor the new Millenium
If you are, you should make a stop at The American Museum of the Moving Image.
As we approach the new millennium (yes, I know it's not until 2001, but no one else seems to), they have decided to look at how filmmakers have portrayed the future.
www.misfit.org /views/twick19991208.htm   (374 words)

  
 AMMI and Sloan Launch Cinema/Science Partnership; "Primer" Event Kicks Off Project
New York's American Museum of the Moving Image (AMMI) has joined forces with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to foster a greater understanding of science, through cinema.
The Sloan Foundation has provided nearly $500,000 over two years to launch an archive on the AMMI website (http://movingimage.us) of student films that have been honored by the Sloan Foundation.
[The American Museum of the Moving Image has made a special offer to indieWIRE readers -- tickets for the "Primer" event (Wednesday, October 6th at 7 p.m.) are available for the Museum member discounted price of $12 by mentioning indieWIRE.]
www.indiewire.com /onthescene/onthescene_041005ammi.html   (357 words)

  
 Museum of the Moving Image   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
THE MEZZANINE FLOORS of MoMI will be devoted to the provision of direct public access to the extensive collections of the New Zealand Film Archive.
At the northern end, a library of specialist film and television books and periodicals, a wide selection of computer-based research material and over 3,000 video tapes will enable visitors to research New Zealand’s moving image history and the huge part of the country’s history captured on film and video over the last 100 years.
MoMI will be the hub for a national network of computer access to the collections and digital video will be used extensively.
www.filmarchive.org.nz /momi/text/l2.html   (180 words)

  
 Charity Navigator Rating - Museum of the Moving Image   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Charity Navigator Rating - Museum of the Moving Image
The Museum of the Moving Image is dedicated to educating the public about the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media and to examining their impact on culture and society.
Using information reported on an organization's most recent Form 990, we include as compensation an individual's salary, cash bonuses, and unusually large expense accounts and other allowances.
www.charitynavigator.org /index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/6706.htm   (338 words)

  
 indielondon.co.uk - movies - Museum of Moving Image closed
PLANS to move London's leading film museum, the Museum of the Moving Image (Momi) to a location near Jubilee Gardens, next to the London Eye, in 2007, have been scrapped, it was announced on Friday (October 4, 2002).
The shock revelation, made by the British Film Institute, means that Momi, which has been closed since 1999 to make way for its refurbishment and relocation, will now never re-open.
Or click here to return to the Film Home Page.
www.indielondon.co.uk /film/momi_closes.html   (446 words)

  
 American Museum of the Moving Image - www.ammi.org ammi
American Museum of the Moving Image - www.ammi.org ammi
Provides general museum information, travel directions, history, membership information, employment opportunities, news, and exhibitions.
Use of this site is subject to Terms of Service.
www.joeant.com /DIR/info/get/10180/15596   (80 words)

  
 New York City.com | NYC.com: The Authentic City Site for New York Hotels, Restaurants, Real Estate, Broadway, Tours, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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If you are looking to move to New York, this service if for you.
www.nyc.com /list.aspx?c=2&e=artID&s=354&v=664   (814 words)

  
 British Film Institute
National Film and TV Archive Our unrivalled collection of moving image material
The British Film Institute offers opportunities for people throughout the UK to experience, enjoy and discover more about film and moving image culture...
A new look for the bfi on the South Bank
www.bfi.org.uk   (253 words)

  
 Marlon Brando --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Marlon Brando, Jr., was born on April 3, 1924, in Omaha, Neb. He moved to New York City in 1943 and studied acting at the Dramatic Workshop.
More results on "Marlon Brando" when you join.
Contains a biography, quotes, several images, and a filmography along with information on some movies.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9310358   (682 words)

  
 ROBERT OPIE COLLECTION - World's largest historical collection of British advertising images
ROBERT OPIE COLLECTION - World's largest historical collection of British advertising images
We also offer a range of other beautiful products that we hope you will find equally appealing.
The world's largest collection of advertising images, started by Robert Opie in 1963, provides a fascinating insight into the British way of life over the last 130 years.
www.robertopiecollection.com   (240 words)

  
 University of Michigan Library Name Resolver Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Bibliographic information is provided to confirm the link.
Title: Museum of the Moving Image; West façade
The person using this material is liable for any infringement.; Monica Pidgeon
name.umdl.umich.edu /IC-UMMU-X-02-03041]02_03041   (70 words)

  
 American Museum of the Moving Image - Museums International Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
American Museum of the Moving Image - Museums International Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
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