From magic lantern to iPhone

EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam (NL), 2014

All they really are is still pictures. But show them one after another in rapid succession and you get movement – otherwise known as film.

The history of film

In EYE Filmmuseum’s permanent historical exhibition, located in the ‘Panorama’, distinctive historical objects – a seventeenth century magic lantern, a nineteenth century mutoscope, a twentieth century Mitchell camera, a modern-day iPhone – illustrate the technological evolution of cinema. Five animated films show how they work in simple terms.

“Clear animated films explain how the devices work.”

RODI — 18 December 2014

Credits

Client
EYE Filmmuseum

Spatial & Graphic Design
Atelier Alkema

Content Design Film
Studio Louter

Film Production
Studio Louter

Hardware
VHS