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Event 3: City of Cinema: Paris 1850-1907 LACMA

 This week I went to LACMA Museum to go to the City of Cinema: Paris 1850-1970 exhibition. The exhibition displayed how film emerged among social, political, artistic, and technological fields. Painting, sculptures, photography, film, and pieces of old technology were on display. 

My ticket I bought to attend get into the museum.
The entrance of the exhibit
The artwork was a tool of French colonialism, Western hegemony, and white supremacy showing the "primitivism" of other cultures. The film In China (1900) was by Gaumont and Picturesque Japan (1907) by Pathé was meant as justification for France's brutal imperialism. The exhibition mainly displayed the paintings, photographs, and technology used to capture the history of France. A lot of the paintings and photographs looked like movie posters to promote films or performances. Walking around it was really interesting to see how our technology has evolved to create films. My favorite thing to look at was the praxinoscope. 

Picture I took of the movie poster like paintings
This is me looking through the lens where there was a projection of two pictures drawn and you can see them simultaneously

A praxinoscope theater is a camera used for drawing, used to see optical views, and used for viewing theatrical dioramas. A strip of papers were placed on the inner surface of the spinning cylinder and with narrow slits of a mirror, the image would appear of the rapidly moving images. It is very similar to stop motion picture, but they are drawings moving at a fast speed. The praxinoscope then evolved to a Cinématographe Lumière, a photo developer and projector. It was cool to see all the technology that allowed individuals to create art in the past and be successful, allowing it to advance to what we have today. 

Praxinoscope Theater 
This was the display with the Cinématographic Lumière and praxinoscope theater
Me (left) and my friend at the exhibit. The worker did not want to take a picture with us..



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