Museum of the Moving Image
The Museum of the Moving Image presents exhibitions, education programs, significant moving-image works, and interpretive programs to help further the understanding, enjoyment, and appreciation of art, history, and technology of film, television, and digital media. Each year, the Museum screens more than 400 films, blending both the classic and contemporary films.
The Museum’s core exhibition, Behind the Screen, shows visitors the creative process of making moving images. It features over 1,400 artifacts, from nineteenth-century optical toys to video games, on top of an array of interactive experiences, audiovisual material, and artworks.
The Museum maintains the nation’s largest and most comprehensive collection of artifacts relating to the art, history, and technology of the moving image—one of the most important collections of its kind in the world. This collection consists of over 130,000 artifacts from every stage of producing, promoting, and exhibiting motion pictures, television, and digital media, from pre-cinema optical toys to 21st-century digital technology.
Kaufman Astoria Studios
Kaufman Astoria Studios (KAS) has established itself as one of the most dominant production centers in New York and on the East Coast. Built in 1920, Kaufman Astoria Studios was the original home of Paramount Pictures, and over 100 silent films were created there. Today, top Hollywood film, television, and digital on-demand series are made at the studio, including the Netflix hit Orange is the New Black, Showtime’s Nurse Jackie, Amazon’s Alpha House, Starz’s Flesh and Bone, the NBC pilot State of Affairs, and Sesame Street, which has filmed at Kaufman Astoria Studios since 1992. Recent feature film productions consist of Deliver Us From Evil (scheduled for summer 2014 release) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Men in Black 3, and The Bourne Legacy.
