Long desired by the film industry and the City of Los Angeles, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened its doors in Los Angeles on Sept. 30, 2021. The largest museum in the United States devoted to the arts, sciences, and artists of moviemaking, the museum’s opening exhibitions include moments devoted to The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane, Spike Lee, Hayao Miyazaki, costume design, visual effects, sound design, pre-cinematic storytelling, and so much more. Designed to rotate to ensure that a multiplicity of cinematic stories are told, these exhibitions — and the museum itself — were widely praised.

However, some rightfully noted the absence of an exhibition focused on Hollywood’s largely Jewish immigrant founders. Others put it more bluntly: “Where are the Jews?”

Source: The Hollywood Reporter
URL: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/why-telling-hollywood-jewish-origin-story-important-1235115400/

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