Cinerama Fairchild-Curtis 160-degree ƒ/2 ultra wide-angle lens used to film shots from HAL 9000's point of view in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Photo by Joshua White, JWPictures/©Academy Museum Foundation

Cinerama ultra wide-angle lens

'Laterna de Orient No 209 Märchen 1001 Nacht,' Germany, 1890. Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Collection of Akram Miknas. Photo by Joshua White, JWPictures/©Academy Museum Foundation

Toy Magic Lantern

'Laterna de Orient No 209 Märchen 1001 Nacht,' Germany, 1890

Cinerama camera with magazines, movements, and tripod. Gift of Michael Forman and Cinerama, Inc. Photography by Joshua White. ©Academy Museum Foundation

Cinerama camera

The Cowardly Lion's Mane worn by Bert Lahr in The Wizard of Oz (1939). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library. Photo by Joshua White, JWPictures/©Academy Museum Foundation

Cowardly Lion's Mane

Extraterrestrial headpiece worn in Alien (1979). Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Photo by Joshua White, JWPictures/©A.M.P.A.S.

Extraterrestrial headpiece worn in Alien (1979)

Synchronized sound recording ‘stamper’ disc for Hollywood Revue (1929), Reel 7. Photo by Joshua White, JWPictures/©A.M.P.A.S.

Synchronized sound recording ‘stamper’ disc for Hollywood Revue (1929), Reel 7

'Le Parvo' 35mm Cine Camera, 1908. Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Photo by Joshua White, JWPictures/©Academy Museum Foundation

'Le Parvo' 35mm Cine Camera, 1908

iPhone 5S 64GB with Anamorphic Adaptor Lens used by Sean Baker to shoot Tangerine (2015). Gift of Sean Baker, with thanks to Cre Film, Duplass Brothers Productions, and Through Film. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Photo by Joshua White, JWPictures/©A.M.P.A.S.

iPhone 5S 64GB with Anamorphic Adaptor Lens used by Sean Baker to shoot Tangerine (2015)

A page from Gregory Peck's annotated working script for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library. The Gregory Peck Papers, Gift of Gregory Peck, 1995

A page from Gregory Peck's annotated working script for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

A page from Gregory Peck's annotated working script for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962

French Grande release poster for À la conquête du Pôle / The Conquest of the Pole (1912). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library

French Grande release poster for À la conquête du Pôle / The Conquest of the Pole (1912)

 French Grande release poster for À la conquête du Pôle / The Conquest of the Pole (1912)

Cinerama camera and slate with magazines, movements, and tripod 1954. Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Gift of Michael Forman and Cinerama, Inc. Photo by Joshua White, JWPictures/©A.M.P.A.S.

Cinerama slate

Cinerama slate, 1954

Typewriter Joseph Stefano used to write the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Gift of Michael Eisenberg, 2016. Photo by Joshua White, JWPictures/©A.M.P.A.S.

Typewriter Joseph Stefano used to write the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960)

Shirley Temple's tap shoes and practice steps used during filming of The Little Colonel (1935). Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Gift of Shirley Temple Black and Family. Photo by Joshua White, JWPictures/©A.M.P.A.S.

Shirley Temple's tap shoes and practice steps used during filming of The Little Colonel (1935)

Study for a matte painting of Charles Foster Kane's Xanadu mansion in Citizen Kane (1941). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library

Study for a matte painting of Charles Foster Kane's Xanadu mansion in Citizen Kane (1941)

Matte painting of Ancient Rome from Spartacus (1960), Peter Ellenshaw, Gift of Harrison Ellenshaw, ©Academy Museum Foundation, Photo by Joshua White Photography/JW Pictures

Matte Painting

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Tyrannosaurus rex Dinosaur Input Device for Jurassic Park (1993). Photos by Joshua White/JW Pictures

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