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