Film Technology

Unfortunately, the exhibition is currently closed. We ask for your understanding!

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  Am Mutoskop (um 1900) entsteht beim schnellen Drehen der Eindruck eines bewegten Films. – Ein Mädchen schaut in einen beleuchteten Kasten und dreht an einer Kurbel. Im Hintergrund sind Vitrinen mit Objekten zu sehen.

• Mit der Wundertrommel, dem sogenannten Zoetrop, kann man Bilder selbst in Bewegung setzen. – Eine Frau und ein Kind stehen an einer dunklen, oben offenen, drehbaren Trommel, an deren Rand sich in regelmäßigen Abständen enge Schlitze befinden. Sie blicken durch die Schlitze in das Innere.

• Blick in einen Filmschneideraum der 1970er Jahre. – Filmschneidetisch mit Monitor und verschiedenen Spulen, in die Filmrollen eingespannt sind.

The exhibition "Living Pictures" tells stories about milestones in film technology: from the amazing optical illusions of the 19th century, through the golden years of cinema in Hollywood and in the Berlin film studios, to the era of ambitious video filmmakers. The exhibition follows in the footsteps of Berlin film pioneers such as the Skladanowsky brothers and Oskar Messter. The technical history of film can be traced through numerous historical film shots, cameras, spotlights and cinema technology

Cinema had its great breakthrough at the beginning of the 20th century, but the images learned to walk much earlier. In the 18th century, projection artists used the magic lantern to amaze audiences: they told stories with colored, mechanically moving glass images and projected them on the wall as ghost stories or natural spectacles. Miniature versions of magic lanterns also became popular children's toys in the 19th century. Visitors can try out these and other optical toys such as the miracle drum, the wheel of life or the illusion seer in the exhibition.

Runtime: from January 2000

Price info: Admission is free for those under 18 and up to the completion of regular schooling.

Price: €8.00

Reduced price: €4.00

Reduced price info: Discounts are available to the following, with appropriate proof:

Students

Unemployed persons

Severely disabled persons (from 50%)

Recipients of social welfare

Recipients of benefits under the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act (Asylbewerberleistungsgesetz)

Federal volunteers and those doing voluntary military service

Berliners with the berlinpass and berlinpass-BuT

Groups from institutions for the disabled

Takes place here:

• Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin