My personal connection to Hollywood’s Golden Age drew me to one particular display. “We’re building a museum that will fully reflect the wide variety of stories connected to cinema and motion pictures-stories from many points of view.” “The founders of the academy envisioned a movie museum in Los Angeles more than 90 years ago, and now it’s finally happening,” museum director Bill Kramer said at a press conference last year, before COVID hit and delayed the opening. My search ends this year with the opening of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on September 30. I found a couple of small museums with seemingly random collections, but none that systematically gathered and presented material to tell the multifacted and fascinating story of this major art form. So when I moved to Los Angeles, the undisputed epicenter of America’s film industry, some 20 years ago, I looked for a museum of cinema history. In those magical movie palaces, my imagination would take flight as I ventured to glamorous faraway places and time-traveled through different eras.
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