Talk:Museum of the Moving Image

Stub?
When is a stub not a stub? I don't think this is anymore, it's too long and has significant content.. but what is it? Thoughts? TRAVELLINGCARI My storyTell me yours 04:16, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Time to rename the article
Considering that it is now 10 years since the Museum of the Moving Image in London last existed, while its contemporary of the same name in New York is still alive and well and expanding, I suggest that the New York museum is now the more notable of the two and therefore the article title Museum of the Moving Image should be transferred to that museum. The page for the London museum can become Museum of the Moving Image (London). (I am posting the same suggestion on the talk page for "Museum of the Moving Image", and I ask people to discuss it there, not here.) --70.48.232.108 (talk) 09:47, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Changes to content
I work for Museum of the Moving Image. I notice there are several inaccuracies to content on the Museum of the Moving Image Wikipedia page and I would like to propose the revision of the following clauses:

1. Current text: The museum originally opened in 1977 as the Astoria Motion Picture and Television Center Foundation and re-opened in 1988 as the American Museum of the Moving Image. The museum began a $67 million expansion in March 2008 and reopened in January 2011. The expansion was designed by architect Thomas Leeser.

- This is incorrect. The museum was founded in 1981 and opened in 1988 as American Museum of the Moving Image. I propose the following change to copy (I have included the citation next to the revision):

Revised text: The museum originally opened in 1988 as American Museum of the Moving Image. The museum began a $67 million expansion in March 2008 and reopened in January 2011. The expansion was designed by architect Thomas Leeser.

2. Current text: The museum's attendance has grown from 60,000 in 2000 to almost 100,000 in 2007, underscoring the need for expansion.

- This clause is outdated. I suggest the following revision:

Revised text: The museum's attendance has grown from 60,000 in 2000 to an expected figure of 120,000 in 2011

3. Current text: The museum's history as the Astoria Motion Picture and Television Center Foundation traces its history to 1970, when the Foundation took control of the former Kaufman Studios in an effort to preserve the now-landmarked building which was home to a number of significant productions.

- This sentence is somewhat clumsy and could do with certain embellishments. The citations are taken from the Museum's website (which has been prepared in consultation with oral histories, minutes from board meetings, and press from the Museum's collection), and press in New York Times. Propose the following revision:

Revised text: Originally built by Famous Players-Lasky in 1920, the building served as the East Coast production facility for Paramount Pictures for more than a decade. The studio was the site of hundreds of silent and early sound era film productions, including Gloria Swanson’s silent films and Marx Brothers comedies. The studio was taken over in 1942 by the U.S. Army to produce training films for WWII soldiers and renamed the Signal Corps Photographic Center. Following the Army's departure in 1970, the site fell into disrepair. In 1977, the Astoria Motion Picture and Television Foundation was formed to save the studio complex.

4. Current text: In March 2008, the museum broke ground for a $65m million expansion that will double the museum's size and add a new theater and educational space. While closed, the museum will hold programming off site, although the collection will still be available to scholars.

- This clause uses the future tense with reference to the museum's reopening, which is now a past event (reopened on January 15 2011). I have updated this clause in the present tense and included information about the expansion taken from press:

Revised text: In March 2008, the museum broke ground for a $65m million expansion that has doubled the museum's size to nearly 100,000 square feet, doubled its classroom facilities to host 60,000 students a year, and funded the new 267-seat and 68-seat theaters. While closed, the museum held programming off site, although the collection was still available to scholars.

The museum opened its redesigned and expanded building, designed by Leeser Architecture, on January 15, 2011.

I would be grateful if independent editors of Wikipedia could review the above suggestions and incorporate into the description of the Museum. I would also be grateful if more experienced editors could review the way that citations have been incorporated as I am new to editing Wikipedia pages.

Samantha M King (talk) 16:07, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

External links modified
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External links modified
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Requested move 14 January 2018

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: MOVED (non-admin closure) Galobtter (pingó mió) 07:00, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Museum of the Moving Image (New York City) → Museum of the Moving Image – The London MOMI has been closed for decades and gets about half the page views as the one in NYC, which can get far more during special events and is still fully operational. I think the NYC one is the clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 22:34, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Support with hatnotes. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:09, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Support, makes complete sense. Way to point users to the other one if they're looking for it?      StarM 03:59, 20 January 2018 (UTC)


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