Bill Kramer

Director and President, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Director and President of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

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“When the Academy was founded in the late 1920s, they said, ‘Let’s build a film museum.’ So this has been going on for almost a century.

Ruby slippers, the ‘Psycho’ typewriter and more: Tour the Academy Museum with president Bill Kramer

“When the Academy was founded in the late 1920s, they said, ‘Let’s build a film museum.’ So this has been going on for almost a century.

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