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Film is a Movie Data Base term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an Movie Data Base art form,

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and the motion Movie Data Base picture industry. Films Movie Data Base are produced by recording

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images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special Movie Data Base effects. Films Movie Data Base are cultural artifacts Movie Data Base created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them. Film is considered Movie Data Base to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment and a powerful method for educating � or indoctrinating � citizens. The visual elements of cinema gives motion pictures a universal power of communication. Some films Movie Data Base have become popular worldwide Movie Data Base attractions Movie Data Base by using dubbing or subtitles that Movie Data Base translate the dialogue. Traditional films are made up of a series of individual Movie Data Base images called frames. When these images are shown rapidly in Movie Data Base succession, a viewer Movie Data Base has the illusion that motion is occurring. The Movie Data Base viewer cannot see the flickering between frames due to Movie Data Base an effect known as persistence of vision, whereby the eye retains a The origin of the name "film" comes Movie Data Base from the fact that photographic film (also called film stock) had historically been the Movie Data Base primary medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion picture, including picture, picture show, photo-play, flick, and most commonly, movie. Additional terms for the field in general include the big screen, the silver

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cinema, and the movies.In the 1860s, mechanisms for producing artificially created, two-dimensional images in motion were demonstrated Movie Data Base with devices such as the zoetrope and the praxinoscope. These machines were outgrowths of simple optical devices (such as magic lanterns) and Movie Data Base would display sequences of still pictures at sufficient speed for the images

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on the pictures to appear to be moving, Movie Data Base a phenomenon called persistence of Movie Data Base vision. Naturally, the images Movie Data Base needed to be carefully designed to achieve the desired effect � and the underlying principle Movie Data Base became the basis for the development of film animation. A frame from Roundhay Garden Scene, the world's earliest film, by Louis Le Prince, 1888 With the development of celluloid film for still photography, it became Movie Data Base possible to directly capture objects in motion in real time. Early versions of the Movie Data Base technology sometimes required a person to look into a

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viewing machine Movie Data Base to see the pictures which were separate paper prints attached to a drum turned by a handcrank. Movie Data Base The pictures were Movie Data Base shown at a variable speed of about 5 to 10 pictures per second depending on how rapidly the crank Movie Data Base was turned. Some of these machines were coin operated. By the 1880s, the development Movie Data Base of the motion picture camera allowed the individual component images to be captured and stored Movie Data Base on a single reel, and led quickly to the development of a motion picture projector to shine

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light through the processed and printed Movie Data Base film and Movie Data Base magnify Movie Data Base these "moving picture shows" onto a screen for an entire audience. These reels, so exhibited, came to be known as "motion pictures". Early motion pictures were static shots that showed an event or New Batman Movie action with no editing or other cinematic techniques. Ignoring Dickson's early sound experiments (1894), commercial motion pictures were Movie Data Base purely visual art through the late 19th century, but these Movie Data Base innovative silent films had gained a hold on the public imagination. Around Movie Data Base the turn of the twentieth century, films began developing a narrative structure by stringing scenes together to tell narratives. The scenes were later broken up into multiple shots of varying sizes and angles. Other techniques such as camera movement were realized as

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effective ways Movie Data Base to portray a story on film. Rather than leave the audience Movie Data Base in silence, theater owners would hire a Movie Data Base pianist or Movie Data Base organist or a full orchestra Movie Data Base to play music fitting the

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mood of the film at any given moment. By the early 1920s, most films came with a prepared Movie Data Base list Movie Data Base of sheet music for this purpose, with complete film scores being composed for major productions. A shot from Georges Melies Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902), an early narrative film. The Movie Data Base rise

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of European cinema was interrupted by the breakout of World War I while the film industry in United

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States Movie Data Base flourished with the rise Movie Data Base of Hollywood. However in the 1920s, European filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, F. W. Murnau, and Movie Data Base Fritz Lang, along with American Movie Data Base innovator Movie Data Base D. Movie Data Base W. Griffith and the contributions of Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and others, continued to advance the medium. Movie Data Base In the 1920s, new technology allowed filmmakers to attach to each film a soundtrack of speech, Movie Data Base music and sound effects synchronized with the action on the screen. These sound films were initially distinguished Movie Data Base by calling them "talking pictures", or Movie Data Base talkies. The next major step in the development of cinema Movie Data Base was the introduction of so-called "natural" Movie Data Base color. While the addition of sound quickly eclipsed silent film and theater musicians, color was adopted more gradually as methods evolved making it more practical and cost effective to produce "natural color" films. The public was relatively indifferent to color photography as opposed to black-and-white,[citation needed] but as color processes improved Movie Data Base and became as affordable as black-and-white film, more and more movies were filmed in color after the end of World War Movie Data Base II, as the industry in America came to view color as essential to attracting audiences in its competition with television, which remained a black-and-white medium until the mid-1960s. Movie Data Base By the end of the 1960s, col Since the decline of the studio system in the 1960s, the succeeding decades saw changes in the Movie Data Base production and style of film. New Hollywood, French New Wave and Movie Data Base the rise of film school educated independent filmmakers were all part of the changes the medium experienced Movie Data Base in the latter Movie Data Base half of Movie Data Base the 20th century. Digital technology Movie Data Base has been the driving force Movie Data Base in Movie Data Base change throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century. Theory Main article: Film theory Film theory seeks to develop concise Movie Data Base and systematic concepts Movie Data Base that apply to the study of film as art. It

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was Movie Data Base started by Ricciotto Canudo's The Birth of the Sixth Art. Formalist film theory, led by Rudolf Arnheim, Bela Balazs, and Siegfried Kracauer, emphasized how film differed from reality, and thus could be considered a valid Movie Data Base fine art. Andre Bazin reacted against this theory by Movie Data Base arguing that film's Movie Data Base artistic essence lay in its ability Movie Data Base to mechanically reproduce Movie Data Base reality not in its differences from reality, and this gave rise to realist theory. More recent analysis spurred Movie Data Base by Lacan's psychoanalysis and Ferdinand de Saussure's Movie Data Base semiotics among other things has given rise to psychoanalytical film theory, structuralist film theory, feminist

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film theory and others. Criticism Main article: Film criticism Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films. In Movie Data Base general, these works can be divided into two categories: academic Movie Data Base criticism by film scholars and journalistic film criticism Movie Data Base that appears regularly in newspapers and other media. Film critics working for Movie Data Base newspapers, magazines, and broadcast media mainly review new releases. Normally they only see any given film once Movie Data Base and Movie Data Base have only Movie Data Base a day or two to formulate opinions. Despite this, critics have an important impact on Movie Data Base films, especially those of certain genres. Mass marketed action, horror, and comedy films tend not to Movie Data Base be greatly Movie Data Base affected by a critic's

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overall judgment of a film. The Movie Data Base plot summary and Movie Data Base description of a film that makes up the

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majority of any film review can still Movie Data Base have an Movie Data Base important Movie Data Base impact on whether people decide to see a film. For prestige films such as most dramas, the influence of reviews is extremely important. Poor reviews Movie Data Base will often doom a film to obscurity and financial loss. The impact of a reviewer Movie Data Base on a given film's box office performance is a matter of debate. Some Movie Data Base claim that movie marketing is now so intense and well financed Movie Data Base that reviewers

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impact against it. However, the cataclysmic failure of some Movie Data Base heavily-promoted

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movies which were harshly reviewed, as well Movie Data Base as the unexpected success of critically praised independent

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movies indicates that extreme critical reactions can have Movie Data Base considerable influence. Others note that positive film reviews have been shown to spark interest in little-known films. Conversely, there have been several films in which film companies have so little confidence Uncensored Malayalam Movie that they Movie Data Base refuse to Movie Data Base give reviewers an advanced viewing to avoid widespread panning of the Movie Data Base film. However, Movie Data Base this Movie Data Base usually backfires as reviewers are wise to the tactic Movie Data Base and warn the public that the film may not Movie Data Base be Enchanted Movie worth seeing and the films often do poorly as a result. It is argued that journalist film critics should only be known as film reviewers, and true film critics are those who take a more academic approach to films. This line of work is more often known as film theory or film studies. These film critics attempt to come to understand how Movie Data Base film and Movie Rentals filming techniques work, and what effect they have on

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people. Rather

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than having their works published in newspapers or appear on television, their articles are published in scholarly journals, or sometimes in up-market magazines. They Movie Data Base also tend to be affiliated with colleges or universities. Industry Main article: Film industry The making and showing of motion Movie Links pictures became a source of profit almost as soon as the process was invented. Upon seeing how successful their new invention, and its product, was in their native France, Movie Data Base the Lumieres quickly Movie Data Base set about touring the Continent to exhibit the first films privately to royalty and publicly to the masses. In Movie Data Base each country, they would normally Movie Data Base add Movie Data Base new, local scenes Movie Data Base to their catalogue Movie Data Base and, Movie Data Base quickly enough, found local entrepreneurs in the various countries of Europe to buy their equipment

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and photograph, export, import and screen additional product commercially. The Movie Data Base Oberammergau Passion Play of 1898[citation needed] was the first commercial motion picture ever produced. Other pictures soon followed, and motion pictures became a separate industry that overshadowed the vaudeville world. Dedicated theaters and companies formed specifically to produce and distribute films, while motion picture actors became major celebrities and Movie Data Base commanded huge

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fees for their performances. Already by 1917, Charlie Chaplin had a contract that called for an annual salary of one million dollars. In the United States today, much of the film industry is centered around Hollywood. Other regional centers exist in many parts of the world, such as Mumbai-centered Bollywood, Movie Data Base the Indian film industry's Hindi cinema which

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produces the largest number of films in the world.[1] Whether the ten thousand-plus feature length films a year produced by the Movie Data Base Valley pornographic Movie Data Base film industry should qualify for this title is

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the source of some debate.[citation needed]

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Though the expense involved in making movies has led cinema Movie Data Base production to concentrate under the auspices of movie studios, recent advances in affordable film making Movie Data Base equipment have allowed independent film productions to flourish. Profit is a key force in the industry, Movie Data Base due to Movie Data Base the Movie Data Base costly Movie Data Base and risky nature of filmmaking; many films have Movie Data Base large cost Movie Data Base overruns, a notorious example being Kevin Costner's Waterworld. Movie Data Base Yet many filmmakers strive to create Movie Data Base works of lasting Movie Data Base social significance. The Academy Awards (also Movie Data Base known as "the Oscars") are the most prominent film awards in the United States, providing recognition each Movie Data Base year to films, ostensibly Movie Data Base based on their artistic merits. There is also a large industry for educational and instructional films made in lieu of or in addition to lectures and texts. Preview A preview performance refers to a showing of a movie Movie Data Base to a select audience, usually for the purposes of Movie Data Base corporate promotions, before the Movie Data Base public film Movie Data Base premiere itself. Previews are sometimes used to judge audience reaction, which if unexpectedly negative, may result in recutting Movie Data Base or even refilming certain sections. Movie Data Base (cf Audience response.) Trailer Main article: Trailer

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(film) Trailers or previews

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are film advertisements for films that will be exhibited in the future at a cinema, on whose screen they are shown. The term "trailer" comes from their having originally been shown at the end of Movie Data Base a film programme. That practice did not last long, because patrons tended to leave the theater after the films ended, but the name has stuck. Movie Data Base Trailers are now shown Movie Data Base before the film (or the A movie in a double feature program) begins. The nature of

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the film determines Movie Data Base the Movie Data Base size and type Movie Data Base of crew required during Movie Data Base filmmaking. Many Hollywood adventure films Movie Data Base need computer generated imagery (CGI), created Movie Data Base by dozens of 3D modellers, animators, rotoscopers and compositors. However, Movie Data Base a low-budget, independent Movie Data Base film may be Movie Data Base made with a skeleton crew, often paid very little. Also, an open source film may be produced through open, collaborative processes. Filmmaking takes place all over the world using different technologies, styles Movie Data Base of acting and genre, and is produced in a variety of economic contexts that range from state-sponsored documentary in China to profit-oriented movie making within the American studio Movie Data Base system. This production cycle Movie Data Base typically takes three years. The first year is taken up with development. The second year comprises Movie Data Base preproduction and production. The third Movie Data Base year, post-production and distribution. Crew Main article: Film Movie Data Base crew A film crew is a group of people hired by a film company, employed during the "production" or "photography" phase, for the purpose of producing a film or motion picture. Crew are distinguished from cast, the actors who appear in front of the camera Movie Data Base or provide voices for characters in the film. The crew interacts with but is also distinct from the Movie Sounds production staff, consisting of Movie Data Base producers, managers, company representatives, their assistants, and those whose primary responsibility falls in pre-production or post-production phases, such as writers and editors. Communication between production Movie Data Base and crew

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generally passes through the director and his/her staff of assistants.

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Medium-to-large crews are generally divided into departments with well defined Movie Data Base hierarchies and standards for interaction and cooperation between the departments. Other than acting, the crew handles everything in the photography phase: props and costumes, shooting, sound, electrics (i.e., lights), sets, and production special effects. Caterers (known in the film industry as "craft services") are Movie Data Base usually not considered part of the crew. Technology Film stock consists of transparent celluloid, acetate, or polyester base coated Movie Data Base with Movie Data Base an emulsion containing light-sensitive chemicals. Cellulose nitrate was the first type of film base used to record motion pictures, but due to its flammability was Movie Data Base eventually replaced by safer materials. Stock widths and the Movie Data Base film format for images on the reel have had a Golden Compass Movie rich history, though most large commercial films are still shot on (and distributed to theaters) as 35 mm prints. Originally moving picture film was shot and projected at various speeds using hand-cranked cameras and projectors; though Movie Data Base 1000 frames per minute Movie Data Base (16? frame/s) is generally cited as a standard silent speed, research indicates most films were shot between 16 frame/s and 23 frame/s and projected Movie Data Base from 18 frame/s on up (often reels included instructions

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on how fast each scene should be shown) [1]. When sound film was introduced in the late 1920s, a constant speed was required for the sound head. 24 frames per second was Movie Data Base chosen because it was the slowest (and thus cheapest) speed which Movie Data Base allowed for sufficient sound quality. Improvements since the late 19th century include the mechanization of cameras Movie Data Base � Movie Data Base allowing them to Movie Data Base record at a consistent speed, quiet camera design � allowing sound recorded on-set to be usable

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without requiring large "blimps" to encase the camera, the invention of more sophisticated Movie Data Base filmstocks and lenses, allowing directors Movie Data Base to film in increasingly dim conditions, and the development of synchronized sound, allowing sound to be recorded at exactly the same speed as its corresponding action. The soundtrack can be recorded separately from shooting the Movie Data Base film, but Movie Data Base for live-action pictures many parts of the Movie Data Base soundtrack are usually recorded simultaneously. As a medium, film is not limited to motion pictures, since the technology developed as the basis for Movie Data Base photography. It can be used to present a progressive sequence Movie Data Base of still images in the form of a slideshow. Film Movie Data Base has also been incorporated into multimedia presentations, and often has importance as primary historical documentation. However, historic films Movie Data Base have problems in Movie Data Base terms of preservation and storage, and the motion picture industry is exploring many alternatives. Most movies on cellulose nitrate base have been copied onto modern safety Movie Data Base films. Some studios save color films through Movie Data Base the Movie Data Base use of separation masters � Movie Data Base three B&W negatives each exposed Movie Data Base through red, green, or blue filters (essentially a reverse of the Technicolor process). Digital methods have also Movie Data Base been used to restore films, although their continued Movie Data Base obsolescence cycle makes Across The Universe Movie them (as of 2006) a poor choice for long-term preservation. Film preservation of decaying film stock is a Movie Data Base matter of concern to both film historians and archivists, and to companies interested Movie Data Base in preserving their existing products in order to make them available to future generations (and thereby increase Movie Data Base revenue). Preservation is generally a higher-concern for nitrate and single-strip color films, Movie Data Base due to their Movie Data Base high decay rates; black and white films on safety bases and color films

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preserved on Technicolor imbibition prints tend to keep up much better, Movie Data Base assuming proper handling and storage. Some films in recent decades

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have been recorded using analog video technology Movie Data Base similar Movie Data Base to that used in television Movie Data Base production. Modern digital video cameras and digital projectors are gaining ground as well. These approaches are extremely beneficial

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evaluated and Movie Data Base edited without waiting for the film stock to be processed. Yet the migration is Movie Data Base gradual, and as of 2005 most major motion pictures are still recorded on film. Independent Main article: Independent film The Lumiere Brothers Independent filmmaking often Movie Data Base takes Movie Data Base place Movie Data Base outside of Hollywood, or other major Movie Data Base studio systems. An Movie Data Base independent film (or indie film) is a film initially produced without financing or distribution from a major Movie Data Base movie studio. Creative, business, and technological reasons have all contributed to the growth of the indie film Movie Data Base scene in the late 20th Movie Data Base and early 21st century. On the business side, the costs of big-budget Halo The Movie studio films also leads to conservative choices in cast and crew. There is a trend in Hollywood towards co-financing (over two-thirds of the films put out by Warner Bros. in 2000 were Movie Data Base joint ventures, up from 10% in Movie Data Base 1987).[2] A hopeful director is almost never given the opportunity to get a job on a big-budget studio film unless he or Movie Data Base she has significant Movie Data Base industry experience in film or television. Also, the studios rarely produce films with unknown actors, particularly in lead roles. Before the advent of digital alternatives, the cost of professional film equipment and stock was also a hurdle to being able to produce, direct, or star in a traditional studio film. The cost of 35 mm film is outpacing inflation: in 2002 alone, Movie Data Base film negative Movie Data Base costs were up 23%, according to Variety.[2]. But the advent of consumer camcorders in 1985, and more importantly, the arrival of high-resolution digital video in the early 1990s, have lowered the technology barrier to movie production significantly. Both production and post-production costs have been significantly lowered; today, the hardware and software for post-production can be installed in a commodity-based personal computer. Technologies such as DVDs, FireWire connections and non-linear editing system pro-level software like Adobe Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas and Apple's Final Cut Pro, and consumer level software such as Movie Data Base Apple's Final Cut Express and iMovie make movie-making relatively inexpensive. Since the introduction of DV technology, the means of production have become more democratized. Filmmakers Movie Data Base can conceivably shoot and edit a Movie Data Base movie, create and edit the sound Movie Data Base and music, and mix the Movie Data Base final cut on a home computer. However, while the means of production may be democratized, financing, distribution, and Movie Data Base marketing remain difficult to accomplish Movie Data Base outside the traditional Movie Data Base system. Most independent filmmakers rely on film Movie Data Base festivals to get their films noticed and sold for distribution. Movie Data Base The arrival of internet-based video outlets such as YouTube and Veoh Movie Data Base has further changed Movie Data Base the film making landscape in Movie Data Base ways that are still to be determined. Open content film Main article: Open content film An open Movie Data Base content film is much like an independent film, but it is produced through open collaborations; its source material is available under a license which is permissive enough Movie Data Base to allow other parties to create fan fiction or derivative works, than a traditional copyright. Like independent filmmaking, open source filmmaking takes Movie Data Base place outside of Hollywood, or other Movie Data Base major Movie Data Base studio systems. Fan

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film Main article: Fan film A fan Movie Data Base film is a film or video inspired by a film, television program, comic book or a similar source, created by fans rather than by the source's copyright holders or creators. Fan filmmakers have traditionally Movie Data Base been amateurs, but some of the Movie Data Base more notable films have actually been produced by professional filmmakers as film Movie Data Base school class projects or as demonstration reels. Fan films vary tremendously in length, from short faux-teaser trailers Movie Data Base for non-existent motion pictures to rarer full-length motion pictures Animation is the technique in which each frame of a film is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by Movie Data Base photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model unit Movie Data Base (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the Movie Data Base result with a special animation camera. When the frames are strung together and the resulting film is viewed at Movie Data Base a speed of Movie Data Base 16 or more frames Movie Data Base per second, there is an illusion of continuous movement (due to the persistence of vision). Generating such a film is very labour intensive

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and tedious, though Movie Data Base the development of computer animation has greatly sped up the process. File formats like GIF, QuickTime, Movie Data Base Shockwave Movie Data Base and Flash allow animation to be viewed on a computer or over the Internet. Because animation is very time-consuming and often very expensive Movie Data Base to produce, the majority of animation for TV and movies Movie Data Base comes Movie Data Base from professional animation studios. However, the field of independent

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animation has existed at least Movie Data Base since the 1950s, with animation being produced by independent studios (and sometimes by Movie Data Base a single person). Movie Data Base Several independent animation producers have gone on to enter the professional animation industry. Limited animation is a Movie Data Base way of increasing production and decreasing costs of animation by using "short cuts" Movie Data Base in the animation process. This method was pioneered by UPA Movie Data Base and popularized by Hanna-Barbera, and adapted by other studios as Movie Data Base cartoons moved from movie theaters to television.[3] Although most animation studios are now using digital technologies in their productions, there is a specific style of Movie Trailer animation Movie Data Base that depends on film. Cameraless animation, made famous by moviemakers like Norman McLaren, Len Lye and Stan Brakhage, is painted and drawn directly onto pieces of film, and then run through a projector. Venues When Movie Data Base it Movie Data Base is initially produced, a feature Movie Data Base film is often shown to audiences in a movie theater or cinema. The first theater designed exclusively Movie Data Base for cinema opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1905.[4] Thousands of such theaters were built or Movie Data Base converted from existing facilities within a few years.[5] In the United States, Movie Data Base these theaters came to be known as Movie Data Base nickelodeons, because admission typically cost a nickel (five cents). Typically, one film Movie Data Base is the featured presentation (or feature film). Before the 1970s, there were "double features"; typically, a high quality "A picture" rented by an independent theater for a lump sum, and a "B picture" of lower quality rented for a percentage Movie Data Base of the gross receipts. Today, the bulk of the material Movie Data Base shown before the feature Movie Data Base film consists of previews for upcoming movies and paid advertisements (also known as trailers

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or "The Twenty"). Historically, all mass marketed Movie Data Base feature films were made to be shown in movie theaters. Movie Data Base The development of television has allowed films to be broadcast to larger audiences, usually after the film is no longer being shown in theaters. Recording technology has also enabled Movie Data Base consumers to rent or buy copies of films on VHS or DVD (and the older formats of laserdisc, VCD and SelectaVision � Movie Data Base see also videodisc), and Internet downloads may be available and have started to become revenue sources for the film companies. Some films Movie Data Base are now made specifically for these other venues, Movie Data Base being released as made-for-TV movies or direct-to-video movies. The production values on Movie Data Base these films are often considered to be of inferior quality compared to theatrical releases in similar genres, and indeed, some films that are rejected by their own studios upon completion are distributed through these markets. The movie theater pays an average of about 50-55% of its ticket sales to the movie studio, as film rental fees.[6] The actual percentage starts with Movie Data Base a number higher than that, and decreases as the duration of a film's showing continues, as an incentive to theaters to keep movies Movie Data Base in the theater Movie Data Base longer. However, today's barrage of highly marketed movies ensures that most movies are shown in first-run theaters for less than 8 Movie Data Base weeks. There are a few movies every year that defy this rule, often

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limited-release movies that start in only a few theaters and actually grow their theater count through good word-of-mouth and reviews. According to a 2000 study by ABN AMRO, about 26% of Hollywood movie studios' worldwide income came from box office ticket sales; 46% Movie Data Base came from VHS and DVD sales to consumers; and 28% came from television (broadcast, cable, and pay-per-view).[6] Future state While motion picture films have been around for more than a century, film is still a relative newcomer in the pantheon of fine arts. In the 1950s, when television became widely available, industry analysts predicted the demise of local movie theaters. Despite competition from television's Movie Data Base increasing technological sophistication over the 1960s and 1970s, such as the development of color television and large screens, motion picture cinemas continued. Movie Data Base In the 1980s, when the widespread availability of inexpensive

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videocassette recorders enabled people Movie Data Base to select films for home viewing, industry analysts again wrongly predicted the death of the local cinemas. In Movie Data Base the 1990s and 2000s the development of digital DVD players, home theater amplification systems with surround sound Movie Data Base and subwoofers, and large LCD or plasma screens enabled people to select and view films at home with greatly improved audio Movie Data Base and visual reproduction. These Movie Data Base new technologies Movie Data Base provided audio and visual that in the past only local cinemas had been able to provide: a large, clear widescreen presentation of a film with a full-range, high-quality multi-speaker sound system. Movie Data Base Once again industry analysts predicted Movie Data Base the demise of the local cinema. Movie Data Base Local cinemas will be changing in the 2000s and Movie Data Base moving towards digital screens, a new approach which will allow Nude Movie Stars for easier and quicker Movie Data Base distribution of films (via satellite or hard disks), a development which may give local theaters a Movie Data Base reprieve from their predicted demise. The cinema now faces a new challenge from home video by the likes of a new DVD format Blu-ray, which can provide full HD 1080p video playback at

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near cinema quality. Video formats are gradually catching up with the resolutions Movie Data Base and quality

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that film Movie Data Base offers, 1080p Movie Data Base in Blu-ray offers a pixel resolution of 1920?1080 a leap from the DVD offering of 720?480 and the paltry 330?480 offered by the first home video standard VHS. The maximum resolutions that film currently Movie Data Base offers are Movie Data Base 2485?2970 or 1420?3390, UHD, a future digital Movie Data Base video format, will offer a massive resolution of 7680?4320, surpassing all current film resolutions. The only viable competitor to these new innovations is IMAX which can play film content at Movie Data Base an extreme 10000?7000 resolution. Despite Movie Data Base the rise of all new technologies, the development of Movie Data Base the home video market and a surge Angus Movie of online piracy, Movie Data Base 2007 was Movie Data Base a record year in film that Movie Data Base showed the highest ever box-office grosses. Many expected film to suffer as a result of the effects listed above but Movie Data Base it has flourished, strengthening Movie Data Base film studio expectations for the future.

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