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Film is Antique Movie Posters a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an Antique Movie Posters art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects. Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn,

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affect them. Film is considered 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 Antique Movie Posters films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing Antique Movie Posters or subtitles that translate the dialogue. Traditional films are made up of a series of individual images called Antique Movie Posters frames.

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When Antique Movie Posters these images are Antique Movie Posters shown rapidly in succession, a viewer has the illusion that motion is occurring. The viewer cannot see the flickering between Antique Movie Posters frames due to an effect known as Antique Movie Posters persistence of vision, whereby the eye retains a The origin of Antique Movie Posters the name "film" comes from the fact that photographic film (also called film stock) had historically been the 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 Antique Movie Posters big screen, the silver screen, the cinema, and the movies.In the 1860s, mechanisms for producing artificially created, two-dimensional images in motion Antique Movie Posters were demonstrated with devices such as the Antique Movie Posters zoetrope and the Antique Movie Posters praxinoscope. Antique Movie Posters These machines were outgrowths of simple optical devices (such as magic lanterns) and would Antique Movie Posters display sequences of still pictures Antique Movie Posters at sufficient speed for the images on the pictures to appear to be Antique Movie Posters moving, a

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phenomenon called persistence of Antique Movie Posters vision. Naturally, the images needed to be carefully designed to Antique Movie Posters achieve the desired effect � and the underlying principle Antique Movie Posters became the basis for the development of film animation. A frame Antique Movie Posters from Antique Movie Posters Roundhay Garden Scene, the world's earliest film, by Louis Le Prince, 1888 With the development of celluloid film for still photography, it became possible Antique Movie Posters to directly capture objects in motion in real time. Early versions Antique Movie Posters of the technology Antique Movie Posters sometimes Antique Movie Posters required a person to look into a viewing machine to see the pictures which were separate paper prints attached to a drum turned by a handcrank. The pictures were shown at a variable speed of about 5 Antique Movie Posters to 10 pictures per second depending Antique Movie Posters on how rapidly the crank was turned. Some of these machines were coin operated. Antique Movie Posters By the 1880s, the development of the motion picture camera allowed the individual component images to be captured and stored on a single reel, and led quickly to the development of a motion picture projector to shine light through the processed and printed film and magnify these "moving picture shows" onto a Antique Movie Posters screen for an entire audience. These reels, so exhibited, came Antique Movie Posters to be known as "motion pictures". Early motion pictures Antique Movie Posters were static shots that showed an event or action with no editing or Antique Movie Posters other cinematic techniques. Ignoring Dickson's early sound experiments (1894), commercial motion pictures were purely visual art through the late 19th century, but these innovative silent films Antique Movie Posters had

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gained Antique Movie Posters a hold on the public imagination. Around Antique Movie Posters the turn of the twentieth century, films began developing a narrative structure by stringing scenes together to tell narratives. The scenes were later Antique Movie Posters broken up into multiple shots of varying sizes and angles. Other techniques such as camera movement were realized as effective ways to portray a story on film. Rather than leave the audience Antique Movie Posters in silence, theater owners would hire a pianist Antique Movie Posters or organist or a full orchestra to play music fitting the Antique Movie Posters mood of

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the film at any given moment. By the early 1920s, most films came with a prepared list of sheet music for this Antique Movie Posters purpose, with Antique Movie Posters complete film scores being composed Antique Movie Posters for major productions. A

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shot from Georges Melies Le Voyage dans la Lune Antique Movie Posters (A Trip to the Moon)

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(1902), an early Antique Movie Posters narrative film. The rise of European cinema was interrupted by the breakout of Antique Movie Posters World War I while the Antique Movie Posters film industry in United States flourished with the rise of Hollywood. However in the 1920s, European

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filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, F. W. Murnau, and Fritz Lang, along with American innovator D. W. Griffith and the contributions of Antique Movie Posters Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and others, continued Antique Movie Posters to advance the medium. In the 1920s, new technology allowed filmmakers Antique Movie Posters to attach to each film a soundtrack of speech, music Antique Movie Posters and sound effects synchronized with the action on Antique Movie Posters the screen. These sound films were initially distinguished by calling them "talking pictures", or talkies. The Antique Movie Posters next major step in the Antique Movie Posters development of cinema was the introduction of so-called "natural" color. While the addition of sound quickly eclipsed

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silent film and theater musicians, Antique Movie Posters color was adopted more gradually as methods Antique Movie Posters evolved making it more practical and cost effective to produce "natural color" films. The public was relatively

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indifferent to color photography as opposed The Cell Movie to black-and-white,[citation needed] but as color processes improved and became as affordable as black-and-white film, more and more movies were filmed in color after the end Antique Movie Posters of World War II,

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as the industry in America came to view color as essential to attracting audiences in its competition with television, which remained a Antique Movie Posters black-and-white medium until the mid-1960s. By the end of the 1960s, col Since the Antique Movie Posters decline of the studio system in the 1960s, Antique Movie Posters the succeeding Antique Movie Posters decades saw changes in the production and style of film. Antique Movie Posters New Hollywood, French New Wave Antique Movie Posters and the Antique Movie Posters rise of film school educated independent filmmakers were all part of the changes Antique Movie Posters the medium experienced in the latter half of the 20th century. Digital Antique Movie Posters technology has been the driving force in change throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century. Theory Main article: Film theory Film theory seeks to develop concise and systematic concepts that apply to the study

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of film as art. It was started by Ricciotto Canudo's The Birth of the Antique Movie Posters Sixth Art. Formalist film theory, led by Rudolf Arnheim, Antique Movie Posters Bela Balazs, and Siegfried Antique Movie Posters Kracauer, emphasized how film differed from reality, and thus could be considered a valid fine art. Andre Bazin reacted against this Antique Movie Posters theory by arguing that film's artistic essence lay in its ability to mechanically Antique Movie Posters reproduce reality not in its differences from reality, and Antique Movie Posters this gave rise to realist theory. More recent analysis spurred by Lacan's psychoanalysis and Ferdinand de Saussure's semiotics among other things Antique Movie Posters has given rise to psychoanalytical Antique Movie Posters film theory, structuralist film theory, feminist Movie Collector film theory and others. Criticism Main article: Film criticism Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films. Antique Movie Posters In general, these works can be divided into two categories: academic criticism by film Antique Movie Posters scholars and journalistic film criticism that appears Antique Movie Posters regularly in Antique Movie Posters newspapers and other media. Film critics Antique Movie Posters working for newspapers, Antique Movie Posters magazines, and broadcast media mainly review new

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Normally they only see any given film once and Antique Movie Posters have only a day or two to formulate opinions. Despite this, critics have an important impact on films, especially those of certain genres. Mass marketed action, Antique Movie Posters horror, and comedy films tend not to be greatly affected by a critic's overall judgment of a film. The plot summary and description of a film that makes up

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the majority of any film review can still have an important impact on whether people decide to see a film. For Antique Movie Posters prestige films such as most dramas, the influence Antique Movie Posters of reviews is extremely

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important. Poor Antique Movie Posters reviews will often doom a film to obscurity and financial loss. The Antique Movie Posters impact of a reviewer on a given film's box office performance Antique Movie Posters is a matter Antique Movie Posters of debate. Some claim that movie marketing is now so Antique Movie Posters intense and well financed that reviewers cannot make an impact against it. However, the cataclysmic failure of some heavily-promoted movies which were harshly reviewed, as well as the unexpected success of critically praised independent movies indicates that extreme critical reactions can have considerable Antique Movie Posters influence. Others note that positive film reviews have Magix Movie Edit Pro been shown to spark interest in little-known films. Conversely, there have been several films in which Antique Movie Posters film companies have so Antique Movie Posters little confidence that Antique Movie Posters they refuse to give reviewers an advanced viewing to avoid widespread panning of the film. However, this usually backfires as reviewers are wise to the tactic and warn the public that the film may not be worth seeing and the films often do poorly as a result. It is argued that journalist film critics should only be known as film

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reviewers, and Antique Movie Posters true film critics are those who take a more academic approach to films. Antique Movie Posters This Antique Movie Posters line of work is more often Antique Movie Posters known as film theory or film studies. These film critics attempt to Antique Movie Posters come to understand how Antique Movie Posters film and filming techniques Antique Movie Posters work, and what effect they have on people.

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Rather than having their works published in newspapers or appear on television, Antique Movie Posters their articles are published in scholarly journals, or sometimes in up-market magazines. They also tend to be affiliated with colleges or universities. Industry Main article: Film industry The making and showing of Antique Movie Posters motion Antique Movie Posters pictures became a source of profit almost as soon as the process was invented. Upon seeing how successful their new invention, and Antique Movie Posters its Antique Movie Posters product, was in their native France, the Lumieres quickly set about touring the Continent to exhibit the first films privately to royalty and publicly to the masses. In each country, they would normally add new, Antique Movie Posters local scenes to their catalogue and, quickly enough, found local entrepreneurs in the various countries Antique Movie Posters of Europe to buy their equipment and photograph, Antique Movie Posters export, import and screen additional product commercially. The Oberammergau Passion Play of 1898[citation needed] was the first commercial motion picture ever produced. Other

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pictures soon followed, and motion pictures became Antique Movie Posters a separate industry that overshadowed the vaudeville world. Dedicated theaters and companies formed specifically to produce and distribute Antique Movie Posters films, while motion Antique Movie Posters picture actors became Antique Movie Posters major celebrities and commanded huge fees for their performances. Already by 1917, Charlie Chaplin had a contract Antique Movie Posters that called for an annual salary Antique Movie Posters of one million dollars. In the United States today, much of the film industry is centered around Hollywood. Other regional centers exist in Antique Movie Posters many parts of

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the world, such as Antique Movie Posters Mumbai-centered Bollywood, the Indian film Antique Movie Posters industry's Hindi cinema which produces the largest number of films in the Antique Movie Posters world.[1] Whether the ten thousand-plus feature length films a year produced by the Valley pornographic film industry should qualify for this Antique Movie Posters title is the source of some debate.[citation needed] Though the expense involved in making movies has led cinema production to concentrate under the auspices of movie studios, recent advances in affordable film making equipment have allowed independent film productions to flourish. Profit is a key force in the industry, due to the costly and risky nature of Antique Movie Posters filmmaking; many films have large cost overruns, a notorious example being Kevin Costner's Waterworld. Yet many filmmakers strive to create works of lasting social significance. The Academy Awards (also known as "the Oscars") are the Antique Movie Posters most prominent film awards in the United States, providing recognition each year Antique Movie Posters to films, ostensibly based on

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their artistic merits. There is also a large industry for educational and instructional films made

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in lieu of or in addition to lectures and texts. Preview A preview performance refers to a showing of a movie to a select audience, usually for the purposes of corporate promotions, before the public

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film premiere itself. Previews Antique Movie Posters are sometimes Antique Movie Posters used to judge audience reaction, which if Antique Movie Posters unexpectedly negative, may result Antique Movie Posters in recutting or even refilming Antique Movie Posters certain sections. (cf Audience response.) Trailer Main article: Trailer (film) Trailers or previews are film advertisements for films that will be exhibited in the future at a cinema, on whose screen they are Antique Movie Posters shown. The term "trailer" comes from their having originally been shown at the end of a

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film programme. That practice did not last long, because patrons tended to Antique Movie Posters leave the Antique Movie Posters theater Antique Movie Posters after the films

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ended, but the name has stuck. Trailers are now shown before the film (or Antique Movie Posters the A Antique Movie Posters movie in a double feature program) begins. The nature of the film determines the size and type of crew required during filmmaking. Many Hollywood adventure Antique Movie Posters films

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need computer generated imagery (CGI), created by dozens of 3D Antique Movie Posters modellers, animators, rotoscopers Antique Movie Posters and compositors. However, a low-budget, independent Antique Movie Posters film Antique Movie Posters may be 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 of acting and genre, and is produced in a variety of Antique Movie Posters economic contexts that range from state-sponsored documentary in China to profit-oriented movie Antique Movie Posters making within the American studio system. This production cycle typically takes three years. The first year is Antique Movie Posters taken up with development. The second Antique Movie Posters year comprises preproduction and production. The third year, post-production and distribution. Crew Main article: Antique Movie Posters Film crew A film crew is a group of people hired by a film company, employed during the "production" or "photography" phase, for the purpose Antique Movie Posters of producing a film or motion picture. Antique Movie Posters Crew are distinguished from cast, the actors who appear Antique Movie Posters in front of the camera or provide voices for characters in the film. Antique Movie Posters The crew interacts with but is also distinct from the production staff, consisting of producers, managers, Antique Movie Posters company representatives, their assistants, and those Antique Movie Posters whose primary responsibility falls in pre-production or Antique Movie Posters post-production phases, such as writers and editors. Communication between production and crew Antique Movie Posters generally passes through the director and his/her staff of assistants. Medium-to-large Antique Movie Posters crews are generally divided into departments with well defined hierarchies and standards for interaction and cooperation between Antique Movie Posters the departments. Other Antique Movie Posters than acting, the crew handles everything in the Antique Movie Posters photography phase: props and costumes, shooting, sound, electrics (i.e., lights), sets, and production special Antique Movie Posters effects. Caterers Antique Movie Posters (known in the film Antique Movie Posters industry as "craft Antique Movie Posters services") are usually not considered part of the crew. Technology Film Antique Movie Posters stock consists of transparent celluloid, acetate, Antique Movie Posters or polyester base coated with an emulsion containing light-sensitive Antique Movie Posters chemicals. Cellulose nitrate was the first

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type of film base used to record Antique Movie Posters motion pictures, but due to its flammability was eventually replaced by safer materials. Stock widths and the film format for images on the reel have had a rich history, though most large commercial Antique Movie Posters 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 Antique Movie Posters and projectors; though 1000 frames per minute (16? frame/s) is generally cited as a standard Antique Movie Posters silent speed, research indicates most films were shot between 16 frame/s and 23 frame/s and projected from 18 frame/s on up (often reels included instructions 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. Antique Movie Posters 24 frames per Antique Movie Posters second was chosen because it was the slowest (and thus cheapest) speed which allowed for sufficient sound quality. Antique Movie Posters Improvements since the late 19th century include the mechanization of Antique Movie Posters cameras Antique Movie Posters � allowing

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them to record at a consistent speed, quiet camera design � allowing sound recorded on-set Antique Movie Posters to be usable without requiring large "blimps" to encase Antique Movie Posters the camera,

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the invention of more sophisticated filmstocks and lenses, Antique Movie Posters allowing directors to film in increasingly dim conditions, and the development of synchronized sound, allowing sound Antique Movie Posters to be recorded at exactly the same speed as its corresponding action. Antique Movie Posters The soundtrack can be recorded separately from shooting the film, Antique Movie Posters but for live-action Antique Movie Posters pictures many parts of the soundtrack are usually recorded simultaneously. As a medium, film is not Antique Movie Posters limited Antique Movie Posters to motion pictures, since the technology developed as the Antique Movie Posters basis for photography. It Antique Movie Posters can be used to present a progressive sequence of still images in the form of Antique Movie Posters a slideshow. Film has also been incorporated into multimedia presentations, and often has importance Antique Movie Posters as primary historical documentation. However, historic films have problems in terms of preservation and storage, and Antique Movie Posters the motion picture industry is exploring many alternatives. Most movies on cellulose nitrate base have been copied onto modern safety films. Some studios save color films through the use of separation masters � three B&W negatives each exposed through Antique Movie Posters red, green, or blue Antique Movie Posters filters (essentially a reverse Antique Movie Posters of the Antique Movie Posters Technicolor process).

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Digital methods have also been used to Antique Movie Posters restore films, although their continued obsolescence Antique Movie Posters cycle makes them (as of 2006) a poor choice for long-term preservation. Film preservation of decaying film stock is a matter of concern Antique Movie Posters to both film historians and archivists, and to companies interested in preserving their existing products in order Hairy Pussy Retro Movie Galleries to make them available to future generations (and thereby increase revenue). Preservation is generally a higher-concern for nitrate and

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single-strip color films, due to their Antique Movie Posters high decay rates; black and white films Antique Movie Posters on safety bases and color films Antique Movie Posters preserved on Technicolor imbibition prints tend to keep up much better, assuming proper handling and Antique Movie Posters storage. Some films in recent decades have been Antique Movie Posters recorded using analog video technology similar to that used Antique Movie Posters in television production. Antique Movie Posters Modern digital video cameras and digital projectors Antique Movie Posters are gaining ground as well. These approaches Antique Movie Posters are extremely beneficial Antique Movie Posters to moviemakers, especially because footage can be evaluated and edited without waiting for the film stock to be processed. Yet the migration is gradual, and as Antique Movie Posters of 2005 most major motion pictures Antique Movie Posters are still recorded Antique Movie Posters on film. Independent Main article: Independent film The Lumiere Brothers Independent filmmaking often takes place outside of Hollywood, or other major studio systems. An independent film (or indie film) is a Antique Movie Posters film initially Antique Movie Posters produced without financing or distribution from a major movie studio. Creative, business, and technological reasons have all contributed to the

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growth of the indie film scene in the late 20th and early 21st century. On the Antique Movie Posters business side, the costs of big-budget 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 Antique Movie Posters Bros. in 2000 were joint ventures, Antique Movie Posters up from 10% in 1987).[2] A hopeful director is almost never given the opportunity to get a job on a big-budget studio film unless he or she has significant industry experience in film or television. Also, the studios Antique Movie Posters rarely produce films with unknown actors, particularly

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in lead roles. Before the advent of digital alternatives, the cost of professional film equipment and stock was also a hurdle to Antique Movie Posters being able to produce, direct, or star in a traditional studio film. The cost of 35 mm film is outpacing inflation: Antique Movie Posters in 2002 Antique Movie Posters alone, film negative costs were up 23%, Antique Movie Posters according to Antique Movie Posters 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 Antique Movie Posters hardware and Antique Movie Posters software for post-production can be installed Antique Movie Posters in a commodity-based personal computer. Technologies such as DVDs, FireWire connections and non-linear editing system pro-level software Antique Movie Posters like Adobe Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas and Apple's Final Cut Pro, and Antique Movie Posters consumer level software such as Antique Movie Posters Apple's Final Cut Express Antique Movie Posters and iMovie make movie-making relatively inexpensive. Since the introduction of DV technology, the means of production

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have become more democratized. Filmmakers can conceivably shoot and edit Antique Movie Posters a movie, create and edit the sound and music, and mix the final cut on a home computer. However, Antique Movie Posters while the means of production may be democratized, financing, distribution, and marketing remain difficult to accomplish outside the traditional system. Most independent filmmakers

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rely on film festivals to get their films noticed Antique Movie Posters and sold for distribution. The arrival Antique Movie Posters of internet-based video outlets such as YouTube

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and Veoh has further changed the film making landscape in ways that are still to be determined. Open Antique Movie Posters content film Main article: Open content film An open content film is much like an independent film, but it is produced through open collaborations; its source material is available Antique Movie Posters under a license which is permissive enough to allow other parties to create Antique Movie Posters fan fiction or derivative works, than a traditional copyright. Like independent filmmaking, open source filmmaking takes place outside of Hollywood, or other major studio systems. Fan film Main article: Fan Antique Movie Posters film A fan film Antique Movie Posters is Antique Movie Posters 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 been amateurs, but some of the more notable Antique Movie Posters films have actually been produced by professional Antique Movie Posters filmmakers as film school Antique Movie Posters class projects or as demonstration reels. Fan films vary tremendously in length, from short faux-teaser trailers 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 Antique Movie Posters as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model unit (see claymation and stop Antique Movie Posters motion), Antique Movie Posters and Antique Movie Posters then photographing the result with a special animation camera. When the frames are strung Antique Movie Posters together and the resulting film is viewed at a speed of 16 or more frames per second, there is an illusion of continuous Antique Movie Posters movement (due to the persistence of vision). Generating such a film is very labour intensive and tedious, though the development of computer animation has greatly sped up the process. File formats like GIF, QuickTime, Shockwave and Antique Movie Posters Flash allow animation to be viewed on Antique Movie Posters a computer or Antique Movie Posters over the Internet. Because animation is very time-consuming and often very expensive to produce, the majority of animation for TV and movies comes

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from professional animation studios. However, Antique Movie Posters the field Antique Movie Posters of independent animation has existed at least since the 1950s, with animation being produced by Antique Movie Posters independent studios (and sometimes by a single person). Several independent animation Antique Movie Posters producers have gone on to enter Antique Movie Posters the professional animation industry. Limited animation is a way of increasing production and decreasing Antique Movie Posters costs of animation by using "short cuts" in Antique Movie Posters the animation process. This method Antique Movie Posters was pioneered by UPA and popularized by Hanna-Barbera, and Antique Movie Posters adapted by other Antique Movie Posters studios as cartoons moved from movie theaters to television.[3] Although most animation studios are Antique Movie Posters now using digital technologies in their productions, there is a specific style of animation that depends on Antique Movie Posters 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 Antique Movie Posters projector. Venues When it Antique Movie Posters is initially produced, a feature film Antique Movie Posters is often shown to audiences in a Antique Movie Posters movie theater or cinema. The Antique Movie Posters first theater designed exclusively for cinema Antique Movie Posters opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1905.[4] Thousands of such theaters were built or converted from existing facilities within a few years.[5] In Antique Movie Posters the United States, Antique Movie Posters these theaters came to be known as nickelodeons, because admission typically cost a nickel (five cents). Typically, one film is the featured presentation (or feature film). Before the 1970s, there were "double features"; typically, a high quality

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"A picture" rented by an independent Free Hardcore Movie Thumbs theater for a lump sum, and a "B picture" of lower quality rented for a percentage of the gross receipts. Today, the bulk of the Antique Movie Posters material shown before the feature film consists of Antique Movie Posters previews Antique Movie Posters for upcoming movies and paid advertisements (also known as trailers or "The Twenty"). Historically, all mass marketed feature films were made to be shown in movie theaters. The development Antique Movie Posters of television Shemale Movie Clips has allowed films to be broadcast to larger Antique Movie Posters audiences, usually after Antique Movie Posters the film is no longer being Antique Movie Posters shown in theaters. Recording technology has also enabled consumers to rent or buy copies of films on VHS or DVD (and the older Antique Movie Posters formats of laserdisc, VCD and SelectaVision � see also videodisc), and Internet Antique Movie Posters downloads may be available and have started to become revenue Antique Movie Posters sources for the film companies. Some films are now made

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specifically for Antique Movie Posters these other venues, being released as made-for-TV movies Antique Movie Posters or direct-to-video movies. The production values on these films are often considered to be of inferior quality compared to theatrical releases in Antique Movie Posters similar Antique Movie Posters genres, and indeed, some films that are rejected by their own studios upon completion Antique Movie Posters 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 a number higher Movie Contain Nudity than that, and decreases as the duration of a film's showing continues, Antique Movie Posters as an Antique Movie Posters incentive Antique Movie Posters to theaters to keep movies in the theater longer. However, Antique Movie Posters today's barrage of highly marketed movies ensures that most movies are shown in Antique Movie Posters first-run theaters for Antique Movie Posters less than 8 weeks. There are a few movies Antique Movie Posters every year that Antique Movie Posters defy this rule, often limited-release movies that start in only Antique Movie Posters a Antique Movie Posters few theaters and actually grow their Antique Movie Posters theater count through good word-of-mouth and reviews. Antique Movie Posters According to a 2000 study by ABN AMRO, about 26% of Hollywood movie studios' worldwide income came from box office ticket sales; Antique Movie Posters 46% came from VHS and DVD sales to consumers; and

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28% Antique Movie Posters 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 Antique Movie Posters is still a relative newcomer in the pantheon of fine arts. In the 1950s, when television Antique Movie Posters became widely available, industry analysts predicted the demise of local movie theaters. Despite competition from television's Antique Movie Posters increasing technological sophistication over Antique Movie Posters the 1960s and 1970s, such as the development of color television and large screens, motion picture cinemas continued. In the 1980s, when the widespread availability of inexpensive videocassette recorders enabled people to select Antique Movie Posters films for home viewing, industry analysts again wrongly predicted the death of the local cinemas. In the 1990s and 2000s the development of digital DVD players, home theater amplification systems with Antique Movie Posters surround sound and subwoofers,

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and large Antique Movie Posters LCD Antique Movie Posters or plasma screens enabled people to select and view films at home with greatly improved audio and visual reproduction. These new technologies 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 Antique Movie Posters full-range, high-quality multi-speaker sound system. Once again industry analysts predicted the demise of the local cinema. Local cinemas will

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be changing in the 2000s and moving towards digital Antique Movie Posters screens, a new approach which will allow for easier and quicker distribution of films (via satellite or hard disks), a development which Scooby Doo The Movie may give local theaters a reprieve from Antique Movie Posters their predicted demise. The Antique Movie Posters 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 Antique Movie Posters at near cinema quality. Video Antique Movie Posters formats are gradually catching up with the resolutions and quality that Antique Movie Posters film offers, 1080p in Blu-ray offers a pixel resolution of 1920?1080 a Antique Movie Posters leap from the Antique Movie Posters DVD offering of 720?480 and the paltry 330?480 offered by the first home video standard VHS. The maximum resolutions that film currently offers are 2485?2970 or 1420?3390, UHD, a future digital video format, will offer a massive resolution of 7680?4320, surpassing all current film resolutions. The only viable competitor to these new Antique Movie Posters innovations is IMAX which can play film content at an extreme 10000?7000 resolution. Despite the rise of all new technologies, the development of the home video market and a surge of online piracy, 2007 was Antique Movie Posters a record year in film that showed the highest ever box-office grosses. Many expected film to suffer

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