And 40s. That is one of his films. Things, the amazing beautiful green, that alina for. Is leena. Own, that and black exploitation movies. This is eddie murphy from Beverly Hills cops. Both what the movies were and what they were about, the struggle to define and control ones identity. Take a quick look and then we will move to the last stop. The goal here is the realize that comedy plays an important political role as well. Theater,evision, respected the exciting and wonderful moments of the museum. The other thing, this museum was about views. We want to create opportunities for the public to really get some great views. Outside here, we will take you to the open look where you really get a great deal of the Washington National mall. Hold onto your hat. The windows are clean. I am so pleased. You can come and get this does vistas. You can see everything. When the fall comes and there are no leads, you can see the white house. This is part of our desire to give people these moments. I
What we want to do today is give you an opportunity to see the museum as a work in progress. About 40 of all the exhibitions are now complete and we are working to make sure we will be very ready on september 24. The reality of this is simple. 11 years ago we began with a staff of two. We had no idea where the building would be, no sense at all of any of the collections. Not a single object in the collection. We knew we had to raise a lot of money. We had no money in the bank. Now, as a result of some the gifted staff you will meet and thousands of people, we have raised enough money to complete the building and by september, we will be over our target number. We have collected nearly 40,000 artifacts of which 4000 will be in this museum. Instead of two people, there are 200 people working to build this museum. Let me ask my staff to introduce themselves. I am the associate director. Can afternoon. My name is mary elliott and i am a museum specialist. Had the pleasure of cochairing the
I wanted to welcome you and say, listen, what we want to do today is give you an opportunity to see basically the museum as a work in progress. There are about 40 of all the exhibitions are now complete, and were working to make sure that we will be very ready on september 24th. The reality of this is pretty simple, 11 years ago we began with a staff of two. We had no idea where the building would be, no sense at all of any of the collections, unlike almost any other museum, not a single object in the collection. We really knew we had to raise a lot of money, we had no money in the bank, and now as a result of some of the gift of staff youre going to meet and a result of thousands of people, we have raised enough money to complete the building. In fact, by september well be over our target number. We have collected over nearly 40,000 artifacts, of which 4,000 will be in this museum, and instead of two people, there are 200 people who are working to build this museum. And let me ask my
Captioning performed by vitac so one of the joys is to be able to collect africanamerican film. Its one of my areas of interest. We were able to get an amazing collection of movie posters such as the ones behind you. That is an early oscar movie poster from the 1920s. And then part of our job is to help people relearn history they think they know. That movie poster is from spencer williams, known by most people as playing in amos and andy, one of the most important black film directors in the late 30s and 40s. We have Amazing Things in here. The beautiful green gown, that was lena horn in stormy weather. Those that watched bad black exploitation movies, thats from the mac. This is eddie murphy from Beverly Hills cop. In essence, again, trying to show both what the movies were but what they were really about, the struggle again to define and control ones identity. Take a quick peek and well go to the last stop. We want to reintroduce people to people like moms megly and dick gregory, so