MoMA-- Lost Landmark of Black Film History: Exhibition--->Extra Credit

When I went to the 100 Years in Post-Production: Resurrecting a Lost Landmark of Black Film History: Exhibition, this exhibition is on uncut footage for an film that was not released during 1913. It was originally shot in 1913 and it was just discovered recently in MoMa’s Biography collection. It really inspired me in many different ways. First of all, it was pretty depressing seeing the roles of characters in the films. Black people were filmed as slaves, low class and ignorance just as how it used to be in the past.

These films did not have any audio tracts; it was shot with 35mm camera, which was used to film movies during that period of time. One of the films that I have enjoyed watching was “Merry Go around”, when the characters were riding on the rides it looked very fake. It was a still movement shot, the camera was placed in front of the characters, while the background had a different continually shots playing.  If this same film was shot today then it would have looked extremely different. Well, that’s because we have better cameras nowadays and everything are digitized.

Another scene that I have watch at the exhibition was called, “ Footrace”, it was about racing. This scene was shot with a very small frame that you can see the edge of the camera on the left corner. However,  the act of the characters and the way it was filmed it’s pretty comedy. I would strongly  recommend someone to go to this Exhibition, I had an amazing time looking around and reading about this exhibition.