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Thursday, 14 April 2016

Science and Industry Museum

Thursday 14th April 2016

As part of Unit X there are offers to visit archives to a range of places, I visited the Science and Industry museum.  

We looked at the archives where they stored items from previous exhibits and were given information about future visits how we can use these archives for research.
There was table laid out for the group specifically for animation which I found really interesting. There were pieces of old time animation before moving images where they used candle light to project images and used sliders to bring the images to life. Other pieces included following the career of one stop motion animator including his undergraduate films and his involvement in professional productions.

There also armatures from “The Nightmare before Christmas” and “James and the Giant Peach” which were extremely detailed and looked amazing. The archives also contain other information about the animation within the Manchester area which was mainly stop motion puppets from Cosgrove Hall.















I will definitely consider the Manchester Science and Industry Museum as a future source of research. 

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