Museum devoted to magic of cinema to open in Los Angeles

Nearly a century after the idea was first floated, a museum dedicated to the magic of cinema is finally set to open in Los Angeles, with the first temporary exhibition devoted to Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, slated to open by the end of 2019, will be devoted to the past, present and future of film, offering visitors a look behind the screen and into how movies are made. “Los Angeles was at one time and still is to some degree one of the major capitals for the production of film… so it seems the natural place to have a major museum to ensure that the legacy of film lives on,” said Kerry Brougher, director of the museum, which is the brainchild of the Academy of Picture Arts and Sciences, the institution behind the Oscars. Dorothy’s famed ruby slippers from “The Wizard of Oz,” a copy of a script annotated by Gregory Peck for the 1962 drama “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the doors to Rick’s Cafe Americain from “Casablanca” or the typewriter used by