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     So I recently went to the Museum of Moving Images (MOMI) last Wednesday (5/2/18) instead of having a lecture. And this museum had everything from the "grandfathers" of projectors to even VR stuff. It was very interesting to experience these technologies in person. Although I'm learning about the film and editing process in class, it still was pretty cool to have a behind-the-scenes to films.      The first thing our tour guide showed and explained to us was these old-time projectors called Magic Lanterns, and they were basically dubbed the 'grandfathers' of projectors. The examples shown below these Lanterns were quite simple. A thing we all found weird, to us, was that all the backgrounds of these pictures were black.      The second thing he showed up was the Optical toys and the Zoetrope. I remember learning about these in first lecture I had in this film/media class. The guide demonstrated the both the Optical toys and the Zoetro...