The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York contains more than 1,400 artifacts from the history of motion pictures – everything from silent film-era cameras to Star Trek […]
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The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York contains more than 1,400 artifacts from the history of motion pictures – everything from silent film-era cameras to Star Trek happy meal boxes. The museum has sections dedicated to cinematography, sound recording, set design, special effects make-up and more. Here are a few photos from Deep Fried Movies’ visit. Check out the official site here. Click on an image to make it bigger or to start the slideshow.
The mechanical Regan puppet created by Dick Smith for The Exorcist (1973).
The chest prosthetic and Freddy Krueger’s glove from the Nightmare on Elm Street films.
Costumes from Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992).
A disturbingly phallic C-3PO tape dispenser.
Promotional Happy Meal for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).
The museum’s collection of still functioning arcade games, including Frogger and Donkey Kong.
Chewbacca head worn by Peter Mayhew in Star Wars (1977).
Life mask of Christopher Walken for Dogs of War (1980).
An exposure light meter circa 1934.
A Bell & Howell 35mm camera circia 1919.
A Debrie 35mm Parvo camera, the model used on Battleship Potemkin (1925) and The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928).
A three-strip Technicolor camera circa 1940.
A Mitchell VistaVision camera from 1954, used to shoot Paramount’s widescreen films of the era.
The Eyemo (Bell & Howell, circa 1932) was one of the first 35mm cameras intended for handheld shooting.
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