Los Angeles, CA
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| He's right you know! |
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Today our friends Gordon and Brenton drove up from Orange County to go to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures with us. Gordon had booked tickets earlier during our trip and couldn't make it so he rescheduled and today was the day! We headed back to Museum Row (the same place where we visited LACMA) and found parking. The building the museum is in was originally a May Co.
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| The Entrance |
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| Memorable scenes were displayed early in the visit to get you ready |
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| A small area to remind you of the history of the building |
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| Now we know how to make movies. Go make one! |
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| The script from Citizen Kane and some of the lenses used to shoot it |
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| They had a great Bruce Lee section. I love movie posters! |
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| They tried to recreate the broken glass feeling from Enter The Dragon |
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| A pair of Nunchucks that Bruce Lee used |
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| A costume Bruce Lee wore |
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| They did their best to comment on the history of racism and sexism in the film industry |
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| And celebrated achievements made even against impossible odds |
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| The next section focused on the awards themselves |
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| The award |
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| They showed important acceptance speeches |
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| They also had a section on the different stage settings through the years. This was a model but they also showed a film. |
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| There was a nice display of Spike Lee's work |
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| I liked the Kaepernick art |
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| More Spike Lee imagery |
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| A storyboard of the Shower Scene in Psycho |
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| The Ruby Slippers |
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| Concept Art for The Emerald City |
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| A 1930's Camera. Imagine having to act with this pointed at your head |
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| The Wizard of Oz in Three G! |
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| They had an area dedicated to Spanish Film Director, Pedro Almodóvar |
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| Donna and I watched his movies down the street at New Beverly Cinema when we were dating. |
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| Cells from Akira |
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| In the Stop Motion Animation area they had Jack Skellington Heads |
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| The museum transitioned to Artifacts from Movies |
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| C3PO |
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| Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger |
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| They showed early forms of projected entertainment |
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| Early Slide Projection |
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| Sometimes, there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that's the Dude, in Los Angeles |
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| A costume from Rocketman, a great biopic on Elton John |
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| More costumes on Display |
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| The special exhibit featured movies from Hayao Miyazaki |
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| No photos were allowed in the special exhibit so we took pictures just outside where photos were allowed |
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| Life size replica of Bruce from Jaws |
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| There was a glass bridge that took you to a beautiful observation deck |
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| The open deck was really nice |
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| With great views, I was under that rock down there a few weeks ago. |
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| Exit through the gift shop please! |
All Seasons Brewing
After the museum Brenton drove us to All Seasons Brewing. Gordon had been there before. It is a giant space in an old Firestone Tire Store. The food and beer were really good and we got to sit on the patio and talk about our museum adventure.
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| New Brewery |
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| The tap list. One of their beers won a medal at the Great American Beer Festival. |
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| A mural at the brewery |
After lunch we walked across the street to Little Bar. It was quieter and less crowded and allowed for great conversation.
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| The entrance to Little Bar |
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| Mermaid but no sunken treasure |
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| The bathrooms were surrounded by license plates |
It was a great day and we were so glad Gordon and Brenton could reschedule. We even found out that Gordon will be staying in a hotel about .2 miles from us in Kansas City in August so stay tuned for that adventure!
Check out yesterday's adventure here.
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