On 35th Avenue in Astoria, NY, across the East River from midtown
Manhattan, sits the Museum of the Moving Image, the only American
institution honoring all three motion media pillars - film, television
and digital media. Since 1988, MoMI has served the public as an
educational hub presenting the art, history, craft and technology of
screen culture in all its forms. The Queens landmark is well-known for
its innovative approach to museum education and interactive exhibition
design. 
Located on the grounds of Paramount Pictures' 1920s East Coast
production facility, then called the Astoria Studio, MoMI's site is
rich with motion-picture history. After its use as an independent film
production studio in the thirties, the facility housed the U.S. Army's
Signal Corps Photographic Center. The Center served to hasten the
training of wartime inductees. The Army left in 1971, and six years
later MoMI's predecessor, the Astoria Motion Picture and Television
Center Foundation, was created to reestablish the facilities as
feature-film production studios. This directive was quickly reassessed,
because in 1981, the Foundation shifted its focus toward public
education, and a museum about film and television was created. The
change was made definitive in 1985, when the Foundation was
reincorporated as the Museum of the Moving Image.
New York: a video introduces the City Notebook
Moleskine presents all features of the New York City notebook with a special video.
Quality Control Stickers
In new collections, every item has an identification number in the back pocket. Keep it safe.
