The Best of Photo and Film encompasses the entire history of film and photography.

The Best of Photo and Film encompasses the entire history of film and photography, from the first camera, the first photograph at any time made to digital prints, alluding to the coming time of photography. Upon entering The Best of Film, the viewer is met by way of reels of film stacked in succession metal industrial shelves. The participants find themselves instantly transported into the bowels of the museum's motion picture vault. The compass is romanticized by old movie bills hung upon the walls; they are of a time prolonged past, images that still informs the quick in emergencies in movies, art, and fashion. Silent films restored through the George Eastman House are shown in a continuous turn as the central elements of a elude screening room bedecked with director chairs. Films not to be found in the past, now raise are shown in separate spaces forward television. One film in particular. The color is a hilarious piece starring Arbuckle, Keaton and their amazingly choreographed slapstick humor. Glass cases around the extent contain the tiny details of films: antiquated scripts such as The Ten Commandments, music intimation sheets, and even key works which contain photographs of each scene in a film.

In the nearest room is The Best of Photo. Displayed photographs are clustered into central progressive themes. "In the Beginning" is the first theme visited, introducing the first forms of photography, the French daguerreotype and William Henry Fox Talbot's calotype (the paper negative process) "A Better Eye" illustrates the progression of science that photography advanced. William N Jennings's photographs of lightning discard the olden style of drawing lightning as a zigzag, and Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies illustrate how photography informed our vision and understanding of the world.

The novel world ushers in the question: Is photography art? The museum answers by means of including such protagonists and artists as Paul Strand, Edward Stieglitz, Steichen, and Edward Weston. Social documentation and commentary from Lewis Hine and the photographers of the Farm Security Administration, in the same state [i]or[/i] condition artists as Dorothea Lange or Arthur Rothstein, to Robert Frank are all part of the exhibit's narrative.

The Best of Film is more of a retrospective, centering in succession a distinctive era, the first decade of motion pictures, in contrast The Best of Photo exhibits a larger time frame as well as a glimpse into the coming time The exhibition is well coordinated and condens with historic relics and groundbreaking prints created by means of artists who have made an impact not alone in the world of photography, however on the way people view the world around them. This exhibit is also significant as a reminder of the considerable contribution that George Eastman has made to our now visual sphere and that the museum perpetuates from one side its collections and through the dedicated work of its employee and volunteers

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