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Visiting the New Academy Museum in L.A.

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🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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On the October 8, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by Editorial Director Peter Sciretta to talk about the new Academy Museum in Los Angeles.   Opening Banter:  Our Feature Presentation: The Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures Opens This Fall: Here's What You Need To Know All the other stuff you need to know:     Also mentioned:      All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com.  You can subscribe to /Film Daily on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS).  Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air. Please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts, tell your friends and spread the word!  Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Hello everyone welcome to slash film daily for Friday October 8th 2021 on today's episode of the show

0:05.0

we're going to be talking about the new Academy Museum in Los Angeles. My name is Ben Pearson I am a

0:09.9

senior writer at slash film.com and I'm joined on today's episode at slash film editorial director Peter

0:14.7

Soretta. Hey everybody!

0:16.5

Peter you don't really have a go-to intro line.

0:19.8

Yeah I gotta come up with one. I'm not quick enough.

0:23.0

Okay, well, yeah, let's get into it.

0:26.0

So you had a chance to visit the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which has been in development for, want to say 15 years of this.

0:35.0

It's been a long, long time that the Academy, which is the organization that hands out the Oscars every year,

0:42.0

they have been wanting to create a museum in the heart of the film

0:46.6

world, which is of course in Hollywood in Los Angeles. And they have finally done this, and

0:51.6

now it's open to the public and you had a chance to visit this.

0:55.5

I was looking forward to attending the opening of this event when I still lived in LA

0:59.6

but they just kept delaying it longer and longer and then of course COVID ended up delaying it I think

1:04.4

about a year beyond where they're I guess most recently looking to sort of open the doors here.

1:11.3

So yeah this whole episode is just just gonna be like me grilling you

1:13.5

about your experience of going to this thing.

1:15.1

So just like general reaction.

1:17.8

Oh yeah.

1:18.8

Before we give that, I just wanna say like if anybody ever comes to Hollywood,

1:21.6

I think people expected there to be something like this.

1:24.9

If you come to Hollywood you can go it on like some studio tours. You know there's a W.B studio

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