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The Story of the Moving Image

Our interactive exhibition – FREE and open daily

Journey through the past, present and future of screen culture with objects, stories and interactive displays.

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Disney’s Steamboat Willie and why the flipbook is still important

Interactive displays

Create your own moving image masterpieces. Flip books, movie editing, sound composition and more.

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Exhibition highlights

Mad Max V8 Interceptor car replica

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Mad Max V8 Interceptor car replica

Australia, 2019

Commissioned by ACMI

Pepper's ghost effect, triangles, cyan and red

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Pepper's ghost effect, triangles, cyan and red

Australia, 2018

Taree Mackenzie, Australia

Acrylic, MDF, reflective tint, LEDs, mirror ball motor, paint, wood and vinyl

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artwork

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Gunditjmara Keerray Woorroong, 2020

Vicki Couzens

Acrylic paint, carved and hand-polished acrylic lens

Laser cut mirror finish and etched stainless steel

Commissioned by ACMI and co-created with Jeph Neale and Hilary Jackman

The Simpsons arcade cabinet

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The Simpsons arcade cabinet

Japan, 1991

400 Porto-Arc 16mm projector

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400 Porto-Arc 16mm projector

United States, c. 1953

ACMI Collection. Donated by Richard Brown

Cuphead: Inspiration from the Inkwell

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Cuphead: Inspiration from the Inkwell

Canada, 2020

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