----------------------------Original message---------------------------- On Mon, 14 Nov 1994 22:08:18 CST <[log in to unmask]> said: >BTW--On another thread, I'm going to be in London for a short time this >week and wondered if the Museum of the Moving Image was worth seeing on >such a short jaunt at the expense of more traditional tourist spots. >Any comments? If you have a couple of hours to kill while you're waiting for a show at the NFT, by all means take in the Museum. Actually, I'd recommend it more lightly than that sentence indicates. As a thematic tour through the chronology of the cinema and television, it's instructive and a lot of fun. It's also interesting in its own right, like many such sites, as a museum, a spectactle, and an expressive historical text itself. It is a little on the expensive side, but in general in England expect that a pound has a buying power closer to that of a dollar than you would really like to see, given the exchange rate. My own personal caution about the Museum: watch out for a particularly aggressive guide in Victorian dress right at the opening exhibit, insisting that you play with the toys of the pre-cinema era. (But what if I don't wanna play with the Phenakistoscope??!!) My senti- mentally favourite exhibit: the agit-train car, running Eisenstein's Strike, with the guide dressed in worn woolen clothing and plain, cloth cap. Blaine Allan [log in to unmask] Film Studies Queen's University Kingston, Ontario Canada K7L 3N6