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If you have ever wondered how people got entertained before the birth of Cinema, this is the collection that you need to check out with your Mole Antonelliana Tickets. Check out details in documents, images etc. about the various devices such as optical boxes, Chinese shadows, magic lanterns etc. that were used in ancient times to delight the audiences. Look out for the collection by Pierre and Zette Levie and the twins' John and William Barnes, which are the star attractions of this collection.

Take a look at the Photo Library of the Mole Antonelliana Torino to admire the rich collection of more than one and a half million photographs that will tell you the history of the cinema as well as the art of photography. Take a look at the documents on the work of prominent Italian photographers such as Vittorio Zumaglino, Domenico Riccardo Peretti Griva, Maggiorino Gramaglia, and others in this collection.

The Posters and Advertising Materials having 535,000 copies of various promotional materials, posters and playbills of the ancient years will give you a glimpse of how they looked in those eras when amazing designers such as Cambellotti, Martinati, Capitani, and others created them. These promotional materials were used for movie launches and document the history of cinemas and advertising material designs from the period of silent movies to the recent productions.

The Cinema memorabilia that you can look at using Mole Antonelliana Tickets includes items such as sets, stage costumes, sketches for sets and costumes, pre-production objects, etc. that were created for use during the shooting of the movie but were much in demand by the audience and fans later. The collection also contained toys and collectable gadgets used by iconic movie characters.

Feel fascinated looking at the appliance which has made cinemas what they are today. Delight in knowing about the birth of photography and how it developed while looking at cameras and other photography accessories. Learn about the stereoscopic and stereovision devices which transported movies from their silent days to the current days.

An amazing collection that you will be delighted to look at at the Mole Antonelliana Torino museum is that of rare and precious heritage films. Feel thrilled as you take a look at more than 30,000 films in this collection including those from silent films as well.

The historical archive is a documentary complex where you will be able to see thousands of documents pertaining to unpublished and unique elements of the history of cinema. The documents contain a chronological span of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as well as that of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These documents are today serving as evidence of the archaeology of cinema and photography.

If you want to see the documents pertaining to cinema and photography, pay a visit to the documentation library with 45,000 monographs and more than 104,000 issues of magazines. A special attraction of this collection is the one dedicated to Piedmontese photography along with a magazine collection of Italian silent cinema.

For movie buffs, the video store is heaven! For it is here where they can get the opportunity to choose from thousands of films starting from Silent movies to Hollywood classics to Italian masterpieces and more. A few areas of specialization in this store include the Turin silent cinema, films from the Turin film festivals, animated films, advertising films, and the Fund dedicated to Ingmar Bergman.

Remember the classic records - the ones which varied from heavy 78s to classic 33 and 45 rpms? You will find 3000 of them in the sound archive! The section has in store soundtracks from hundreds of movies, with signatures of great composers such as Goldsmith, Morricone, Bernstein etc. There are also those containing the original voices of well-known actors and actresses such as Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Marlene Dietrich and others.