An awful weather forecast unfortunately necessitated a day indoors. We headed to Bradford to the National Media Museum, for a good look round.
The museum has exhibitions of film, photography and TV, as well as a shop and an IMAX cinema. We started with an exhibition of the history of photography, with cameras galore from its beginnings to the present day.
I particularly liked these 'ladies' cameras from the 1920's, made in lovely colours which Kodak Eastman hoped would be an enticement to get more women interested in photography.
On to TV Heaven, with lots of models used to make lots of old favourites
There was a mock-up of a TV studio where you could read the news and do all kinds of amazing things in front of a blue screen.......here you can see my nephew T surfing and my dad in the background about to do his Huw Edwards impersonation!
Some groovy old television sets
And TV cameras
There was also a great exhibition of animation with wonderful drawings and models from late 19th century to the latest 3D examples. My favourites were these models used in 'Jason and the Argonauts'
The set from 'The Wrong Trousers'
and Wallace and Gromit themselves!
On to the photography; 2 excellent shows, a wonderful exhibition of the photographs of Don McCullin, so powerful and thought provoking and another exhibition entitled 'Animalism', exploring the place of animals in modern media; my favourite in this was a wall of portraits of different primates; the human characteristics were very striking and strangely beautiful (sadly, but understandably, no taking of photos allowed at either of these). Some of these photos are available to view online, as well as archives of many of the museum's photographs.
We spent the whole afternoon here easily, there was so much to see and enjoy; in the words of Wallace and Gromit, it was a grand day out!
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