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Collections at the Academy Museum
Film related items since 1927
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences have been collecting film-related items since 1927. The museum holds the larges collection of items of any kind in the world. It has over 13,000 photographs, 71,000 screenplays, 67,000 posters, 250,000 video and film assets, and 137,000 pieces of production art. It also include some 1,500 special collections of film legends from Kathrine Hepburn, Saul Bass, Patricia Cardoso, Alfred Hitchcock, Eiko Ishioka, Hattie McDaniel, and Kimberly Peirce.
Over the years technology is what made it all possible for the motion pictures. The collection includes some examples of pre-cinema devices; early and modern motion picture cameras, projectors; sound, and editing and lighting equipment and other landmark inventions made the art of filmmaking.
The Academy museum highlights Trinuial magic lantern, (1881) Phantasmagoria (c. 1821) Eiffel Tower Magic Lantern (c. 1890), Lumiere Cinematographe (c. 1897) Steam-driven praxinoscope (1904), Three-strip technicolor camera, Keller-Elektro-Mechanik (KEM) Flatbed Editor, Peacock Sciopticon.
