Film The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie world with cameras, or by creating images using animation The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie techniques or special effects.
Films are cultural The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them. Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment and a The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie powerful method for educating The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie � or indoctrinating � citizens. The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie The visual elements of cinema gives motion pictures The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie a universal power of communication. The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles that translate The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie the dialogue.
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The origin of the name "film" comes from The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie the fact that photographic film (also called film stock) had The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie historically been the primary medium for recording and displaying motion The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie 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 The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie in general include the big screen, the silver screen, the The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie cinema, and the movies.In the 1860s, mechanisms for producing artificially created, two-dimensional images in motion were demonstrated with The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie devices such as The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie the zoetrope and the praxinoscope. These machines were outgrowths of simple optical devices (such as magic lanterns) and would display sequences of still pictures at sufficient speed for the images The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie on the pictures to The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie appear to be moving, a phenomenon called persistence of vision. The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie Naturally, the images needed to be The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie carefully The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie designed to achieve the desired effect � and the underlying principle The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie became the basis The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie 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 possible to directly capture objects in motion in real time. Early versions of the technology sometimes 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 The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie at a variable speed of about 5 to 10 pictures per second The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie depending on how rapidly the crank was turned. Some of The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie these machines were coin operated. By the 1880s, the The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie development of the motion picture camera allowed the individual The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie component images to be captured and stored The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie on a The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie 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 The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie "moving picture The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie shows" The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie onto a screen The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie for an entire audience. The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie These reels, so exhibited, came to be known as "motion pictures". Early motion pictures were static shots that showed an event or action with no editing or other cinematic techniques.
Ignoring Dickson's early sound experiments (1894), The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie commercial motion pictures were purely visual art through the late 19th century, but The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie these innovative silent films had gained a hold on the public The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie imagination. Around the turn The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie of the twentieth The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie century, films began developing a narrative structure by stringing scenes The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie together to tell narratives. The scenes were later broken up into multiple shots The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie of varying sizes and angles. Other The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie techniques such as camera movement were realized as effective ways to portray a story on film. Rather than leave the audience in silence, theater owners would hire a pianist or organist or a full orchestra to The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie play music fitting the mood of the film The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie at any given moment. Invisible Movie By the early 1920s, most films came with a prepared list of sheet music for this purpose, with complete film scores The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie being The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie composed for major productions.
A shot from Georges Melies Le Voyage dans la The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie Lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902), an early narrative film.
The rise of European cinema was interrupted by the The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie breakout of World War I while the film industry in United States flourished with the rise of Hollywood. However in the 1920s, European filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, F. W. Murnau, and Fritz Lang, along with American innovator D. W. Griffith and the contributions of Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and others, continued to advance the medium. In The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie the 1920s, The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie new technology allowed filmmakers to attach to each film a soundtrack of speech, music and sound effects synchronized with the action on the screen. These sound films were The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie initially distinguished by The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie calling them "talking pictures", The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie or talkies.
The next The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie major step in the development of The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie cinema was the introduction of so-called "natural" color. The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie 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 The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie was The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie relatively indifferent to color photography as opposed to black-and-white,[citation needed] but as color processes improved and became The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie as affordable as black-and-white film, more and more movies were filmed in color after the end of World War II, as the industry in America came to view The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie color as essential to attracting audiences in its competition with television, which remained a black-and-white medium until the mid-1960s. By the end of the 1960s, col
Since the The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie decline The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie of the studio system in the 1960s, The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie the succeeding decades saw changes in the production and style of film. The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie New Hollywood, French New The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie Wave and the rise of film school educated independent filmmakers were all part of the changes the medium experienced in the latter half of The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie the 20th The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie century. Digital technology has The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie been the driving force in change throughout the 1990s and into the 21st The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie century.
Theory
Main article: Film theory
Film theory seeks to develop concise and systematic concepts that apply to the study of film as art. It was started by Ricciotto Canudo's The Birth of the Sixth Art. Formalist film theory, led by Rudolf Arnheim, Bela Balazs, and The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie Siegfried Kracauer, emphasized how film differed from reality, and thus could be considered The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie a valid fine art. Andre Bazin reacted against this theory The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie by arguing that film's artistic essence The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie lay in its Plump Movie Galleries ability to mechanically The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie reproduce reality not in its differences from The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie reality, and this The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie gave rise to realist theory. More recent analysis spurred by Lacan's psychoanalysis and Ferdinand de Saussure's semiotics among other things has given rise to psychoanalytical film theory, structuralist film theory, feminist film theory and others.
Criticism
Main article: Film criticism
Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie of films. In The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie general, these works can be divided into two categories: academic criticism by film scholars and journalistic film The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie criticism The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie that appears regularly in newspapers and other media.
Film critics working for newspapers, magazines, and broadcast The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie media mainly review new releases. Normally they only see any given film once and have only a day or two to formulate opinions. Despite The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie this, The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie critics have an important impact on films, especially those of certain genres. Mass The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie marketed action, horror, and comedy films tend not The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie to be greatly affected by a critic's overall The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie judgment The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie of a film. The plot summary and description of a film that makes up the majority of any film review can still have an important The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie impact on whether The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie people decide to see a film. For prestige films such as most The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie dramas, the influence of reviews is extremely important. Poor reviews will often doom a film to obscurity and The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie financial loss.
The impact of The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie a reviewer The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie on a given film's box office performance is a matter of debate. Some claim that movie marketing is now so intense and well financed The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie that reviewers cannot make an impact against The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie it. However, the cataclysmic failure The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie of some heavily-promoted movies which were harshly reviewed, as well as the unexpected success of critically praised independent movies indicates that The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie extreme critical reactions can have considerable influence. Others note that positive The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie film reviews have been shown to spark interest in little-known films. Conversely, there have The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie been several The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie films in which film companies have so little confidence that they The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie refuse to give reviewers an advanced viewing to avoid widespread panning of the film. However, this usually backfires as reviewers are The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie wise to the tactic and warn the public that the film may not be worth The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie seeing and the films often do poorly as a result.
It is argued that journalist film critics should only be known as The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie film reviewers, The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie 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 The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie to understand how film and filming techniques work, and what effect they have on people. Rather than having their works published in The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie newspapers or appear on television, their articles are published in scholarly journals, or sometimes in up-market The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie magazines. They also tend The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie to be affiliated with colleges or universities.
Industry
Main article: Film industry
The making and showing of motion 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, the Lumieres quickly set about touring the Continent to exhibit the first films privately to royalty and publicly The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie to the masses. In each country, they would normally add new, The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie local scenes to their catalogue and, quickly enough, found local The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie entrepreneurs in the various countries of Europe to buy their equipment and photograph, export, import and screen additional The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie product commercially. The 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 The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie theaters and companies formed specifically to produce and distribute films, while motion picture actors became major celebrities and commanded The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie huge The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie fees for The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie their performances. Already by 1917, Charlie Chaplin had a contract that called for an annual salary of one million dollars.
In The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie the United States today, much of the film industry is centered around Hollywood. Other regional centers exist in many parts The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie of the world, such as The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie Mumbai-centered Bollywood, the Indian film The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie industry's Hindi cinema which produces the largest number of films in the world.[1] Whether the ten thousand-plus feature length The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie films a year produced by the Valley pornographic film industry should qualify for this title is the source of some The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie debate.[citation needed] Though the expense involved in making The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie movies has led The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie 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 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 Nightmare Before Christmas Movie The Academy Awards (also known as "the Oscars") are the most prominent film awards in the United States, providing recognition each year to The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie films, ostensibly based on their artistic merits.
There is also a large The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie 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 to a The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie select audience, usually for the purposes of corporate promotions, before the public film premiere itself. Previews are sometimes used to judge audience reaction, which The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie if unexpectedly negative, may result The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie in recutting or even refilming certain sections. (cf Audience response.)
Trailer
Main article: Trailer (film)
Trailers or previews The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie are film advertisements for films that will be exhibited in The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie the The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie future at a cinema, on The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie whose screen they are shown. The term "trailer" comes from their having originally been shown at The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie the The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie end of a film programme. That practice did not last long, because patrons tended to leave the theater after The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie the films ended, but the name has stuck. Trailers are now shown before the film (or the A movie in a double The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie feature program) begins.
The nature of the film The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie determines The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie the size and type of crew required during filmmaking. Many The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie Hollywood The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie adventure films need computer generated imagery (CGI), created by dozens of 3D modellers, animators, The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie rotoscopers and The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie compositors. However, a The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie low-budget, independent film may be made The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie with a skeleton crew, The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie often paid very little. Also, an The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie open source film may be produced through open, The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie collaborative processes. Filmmaking The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie takes place all over the world using different technologies, styles of acting and genre, and is produced in a variety of The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie economic contexts that range from state-sponsored documentary in China to profit-oriented movie The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie making The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie within the American studio system.
This production cycle typically takes three years. The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie The first year is taken up with development. The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie The second year comprises preproduction The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie and production. The third The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie year, post-production and distribution.
Crew
Main article: Film crew
A The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie film crew is a group of people hired by a The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie film company, employed during the "production" or "photography" The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie 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 or provide voices for characters in the film. The The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie crew interacts with but is The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie also distinct The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie from the production staff, consisting of 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 The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie and crew generally passes through the director and The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie his/her staff of assistants. The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie Medium-to-large crews are The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie generally divided into departments with well defined hierarchies The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie and standards for interaction and cooperation The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie between the departments. Other than acting, The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie the crew handles everything in the photography phase: props and costumes, shooting, The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie sound, electrics (i.e., lights), sets, and production special effects. Caterers (known in the film The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie industry as "craft services") are usually not considered part of the crew.
Technology
Film stock consists of transparent celluloid, acetate, or polyester base The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie coated with an emulsion The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie containing light-sensitive chemicals. Cellulose nitrate was the first type of film base used to record motion pictures, but due to its flammability was eventually replaced by safer materials. Stock The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie widths and the film format The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie for images on the reel have had a rich history, though most large commercial films are still shot on (and distributed The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie to theaters) as 35 mm prints.
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Originally moving picture film was shot and projected at various speeds using hand-cranked cameras and projectors; though 1000 frames per minute (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 from 18 frame/s on up (often reels included instructions on how fast each scene The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie should be shown) [1]. When sound film was introduced in the late 1920s, a constant speed was required for the Free Lesbian Erotica Movie Clips sound head. 24 frames per second was chosen because it was the slowest (and thus cheapest) speed which allowed for sufficient sound quality. Improvements since the late 19th century include the mechanization of cameras � allowing them The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie to record at a consistent speed, quiet camera design � allowing sound recorded on-set to be usable without requiring The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie large "blimps" to encase The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie the camera, the invention of more sophisticated filmstocks and lenses, allowing The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie directors to film in increasingly dim conditions, and the development Lesbian Movie Free of synchronized sound, allowing sound to be recorded at exactly the same speed as its corresponding action. The soundtrack can The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie be recorded separately from The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie shooting the film, but for live-action pictures many parts of the soundtrack are usually recorded simultaneously.
As The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie a medium, film is not limited to The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie motion pictures, since the technology developed as the basis for photography. It can The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie be used to present a progressive sequence of still images in the form of a slideshow. Film has also been incorporated into multimedia presentations, and often has importance as primary historical documentation. However, historic films have problems in terms of preservation and storage, and the motion picture industry is exploring many alternatives. Most movies on cellulose nitrate base The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie have been copied onto modern safety The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie films. Some The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie studios save color films through the use The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie of separation masters � three B&W negatives each exposed through red, green, or blue filters (essentially a reverse of the Technicolor process). Digital methods have The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie also been used to restore films, although their continued obsolescence cycle makes The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie them (as The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie of 2006) a poor choice for long-term The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie preservation. Film preservation of decaying film stock is a matter of concern to both film historians and archivists, and to companies interested in preserving their existing The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie products in order to make them available to future generations (and thereby increase revenue). Preservation is generally a higher-concern for nitrate and single-strip color films, due to their high decay rates; black and white films on safety bases and color films preserved on Technicolor imbibition prints tend to The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie keep up The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie much better, assuming proper handling and storage.
Some films in recent decades have been recorded using analog video The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie technology similar to that used in television production. Modern digital video cameras and digital projectors are gaining ground as well. These approaches are extremely beneficial to moviemakers, especially because footage The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie can be evaluated and edited without waiting for the film stock to be processed. Yet the migration is gradual, and as of 2005 most major The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie motion pictures are still recorded on film.
Independent
Main article: Independent film
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Independent filmmaking often takes place outside of Hollywood, or other major The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie studio systems. An independent film (or indie film) is a film initially The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie produced without The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie financing or distribution from a major movie studio. Creative, business, and technological reasons have all The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie contributed The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie to the growth of the indie film The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie scene in the late 20th and early 21st century.
On the business side, The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie 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 Bros. The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie in 2000 were joint ventures, up from 10% in 1987).[2] A hopeful The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie 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 rarely produce films with unknown actors, particularly in lead roles.
Before the The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie advent of digital alternatives, the cost of The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie professional film equipment and stock was also a The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie hurdle to The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie being able The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie to produce, The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie direct, or star in a traditional studio film. The cost of 35 mm film is outpacing inflation: in The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie 2002 The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie alone, film negative costs were up 23%, according The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie 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 The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie software for post-production can The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie be installed in a commodity-based The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie personal computer. Technologies The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie 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 Apple's Final Cut Express and iMovie make movie-making relatively The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie inexpensive.
Since the introduction of DV technology, the means of production have become more democratized. Filmmakers can conceivably shoot and edit a The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie movie, create and edit the sound and music, and mix the final cut on a home computer. However, while the means of production may be democratized, financing, distribution, and marketing The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie remain difficult to accomplish outside the traditional system. Most independent filmmakers rely on The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie film festivals to get their The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie films noticed and sold for distribution. The arrival of internet-based video outlets such as YouTube and Veoh has further changed the film making landscape in The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie ways that are still to be determined.
Open content film
Main article: Open content film
An open content film is much like an independent The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie film, but it is produced through open The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie collaborations; its source material The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie is available under a license which is permissive enough to allow The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie other parties to create fan fiction or derivative works, than a traditional The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie copyright. Like independent filmmaking, open source filmmaking takes place outside of Hollywood, or other major studio systems.
Fan film
Main article: Fan film
A fan film is a film or video The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie inspired by a The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie film, television program, The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie comic The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie book or a similar source, The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie created by fans rather than by the source's copyright holders or creators. Fan filmmakers have traditionally been amateurs, The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie but some of the more notable films have actually been produced by The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie professional filmmakers as film school class projects or The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie as The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie demonstration The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie reels. Fan films vary tremendously in length, The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie from short faux-teaser trailers for non-existent motion pictures The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie 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 photographing The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie a model unit (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result with a special animation The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie camera. The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie When the frames The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie are strung The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie together and the resulting film The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie is viewed at a speed of 16 or more frames per second, there is an illusion of continuous movement (due The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie to the persistence of vision). Generating such a film is very The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie labour intensive and tedious, though the development of computer animation has greatly sped The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie up the process.
File formats like GIF, QuickTime, Shockwave The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie and Flash allow animation to be The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie viewed on a computer or over the Internet.
Because animation is very time-consuming and The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie often The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie very expensive to produce, the majority of animation for TV and movies comes from professional animation The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie studios. However, The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie the field of independent animation has existed at least since the 1950s, with animation being produced by independent studios (and sometimes by a single person). Several independent animation producers have gone on to enter the professional animation industry.
Limited animation is a way of increasing production and decreasing costs of animation by The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie using "short cuts" in the The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie animation process. This method was pioneered by UPA and popularized by Hanna-Barbera, The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie and adapted by other studios as The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie cartoons moved from movie theaters to television.[3]
Although most The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie animation studios are now using digital technologies in their productions, there is a The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie specific style of animation that depends on film. Cameraless animation, made famous by moviemakers like Norman The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie McLaren, Len Lye and Stan Brakhage, is painted and drawn The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie directly onto pieces of film, and then run through a The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie projector.
Venues
When it is initially produced, a feature film is The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie often shown to audiences in a movie theater or cinema. The first theater The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie designed exclusively for cinema The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1905.[4] Thousands of such theaters were The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie built or converted The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie from existing facilities within The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie a The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie few years.[5] The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie In the United States, these theaters came to be known as nickelodeons, because The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie admission typically cost The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie a nickel (five cents).
Typically, one film The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie 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 The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie lump sum, and a "B picture" of lower quality rented for a percentage of the The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie gross receipts. Today, the bulk of The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie the material shown The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie before the feature film The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie consists of previews for upcoming movies and The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie paid advertisements (also known as trailers or The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie "The Twenty").
Historically, all mass marketed feature films The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie were made to The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie be shown in The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie movie The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie theaters. The development The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie of television has allowed films to be broadcast to larger audiences, usually after The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie the film is no longer being shown in theaters. Recording technology has also enabled The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie consumers to rent or buy copies of films Free Cumshot Movie Gallery on VHS or DVD (and the older formats of laserdisc, VCD and SelectaVision � The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie see also videodisc), and Internet downloads may be available and have started to become revenue sources for the film companies. Some films are now made specifically for these other venues, being released as made-for-TV movies or direct-to-video movies. The production values on The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie these films are often considered The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie to be of inferior The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie quality The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie compared to theatrical releases in similar genres, and indeed, The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie some films that are rejected The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie by their own studios upon completion are The Nightmare Before Christmas Movie distributed through these markets.
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