So what do two massive film nerds do when they find out that the city they are in has a film museum? They go to maybe the best museum in the world!! Turin has the best example of a film museum I have ever come across. The museum started with an intro into the invention of moving images with a great range of brilliant examples of projectors, film equipment and early films. This section ended with a show reel of the first films and the last clip was of a steam train coming towards the camera and as it neared the screen the screen tore away and was replaced by a life-sized train coming into the audience. It was quite shocking and made sense once Mel told me that in the 1900s people literally ran from the cinema in fear of this clip and I think I know how they felt!
After this it was onto the main hall which was simply just amazing! The huge hollow inside of the dome was divided in to many areas which showed clips from different genres of film, each area dressed to match the genre, so for example the love room had a massive heart bed which you laid on and looked up at the screen to watch clips. Other parts included a display of behind the scenes photos of Marilyn Monroe, Orson Wells and Billy Wilder films, exhibits on the making of a film from script to the edit, costume department, directing, script writing and a collection of movie posters including a huge computer database of other classic posters.
The cherry on the cake was in the centre of the room, about 50 bed/seats dotted around the massive dome space, facing one of two big screens showing clips of Italian cinema and going from a space in the middle of the floor to the very top of the dome was a lift hung in the air by a few cables, which took you up to a panoramic view of the city which we didn't bother to queue for.
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