Film is a Fallen The Movie term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field Fallen The Movie of film as an art form, Fallen The Movie and the motion picture industry. Films are Fallen The Movie produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by Fallen The Movie creating images using animation techniques or special effects.
Films are cultural 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 powerful method for educating � Fallen The Movie or indoctrinating � citizens. The visual elements of Fallen The Movie cinema gives motion pictures a universal power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing Fallen The Movie or subtitles that translate the dialogue.
Traditional films are made Fallen The Movie up of Fallen The Movie a series of individual images called frames. When these images are shown rapidly in succession, a viewer has the illusion that motion is occurring. The viewer cannot see the flickering between frames due to Fallen The Movie an effect known as persistence Fallen The Movie of vision, whereby the eye retains a
The origin of the name Fallen The Movie "film" comes from the fact that photographic film (also called film stock) Fallen The Movie had historically been the primary medium for recording and Fallen The Movie displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion picture, including Fallen The Movie picture, picture show, photo-play, flick, and most commonly, movie. Additional terms for the field in general include the big screen, the silver screen, the cinema, and the movies.In the 1860s, mechanisms for producing artificially created, two-dimensional images in Fallen The Movie motion were demonstrated with devices such as the zoetrope and the praxinoscope. These machines were outgrowths of Fallen The Movie simple optical devices (such as magic lanterns) and would display Fallen The Movie sequences of still pictures at sufficient speed for the images on the pictures to appear Fallen The Movie to Fallen The Movie be moving, a phenomenon called persistence of vision. Naturally, the images needed to Fallen The Movie be carefully Fallen The Movie designed to achieve the desired effect � Fallen The Movie and the underlying Fallen The Movie principle became the basis for the Fallen The Movie development of Fallen The Movie film animation.
A frame from Roundhay Garden Scene, the world's Fallen The Movie earliest film, by Louis Le Prince, 1888
With Fallen The Movie the Fallen The Movie development of celluloid Fallen The Movie film for Fallen The Movie still Fallen The Movie photography, Fallen The Movie it became Fallen The Movie possible to directly Fallen The Movie 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 at a variable Fallen The Movie speed of about 5 Fallen The Movie to 10 pictures per second Fallen The Movie depending on how rapidly the crank was turned. Some of these machines were coin Fallen The Movie operated. By the 1880s, the development of the motion picture camera allowed the individual component images Fallen The Movie to be captured and stored on a Fallen The Movie single reel, and led quickly Fallen The Movie to the Fallen The Movie development Fallen The Movie of Fallen The Movie a motion picture projector Fallen The Movie to shine light through the processed and printed film and magnify these Fallen The Movie "moving picture shows" onto a screen for an entire audience. These reels, Fallen The Movie so exhibited, came Fallen The Movie to be known as "motion Fallen The Movie pictures". Early motion pictures were static shots that showed an event or action Fallen The Movie with no editing or 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 had gained a hold on Fallen The Movie the public imagination. Around the turn of the twentieth century, films began developing a Fallen The Movie narrative structure by stringing scenes together to tell narratives. The Fallen The Movie scenes were later broken up Fallen The Movie into multiple shots of varying sizes and angles. Other techniques such as camera movement were realized as effective ways to portray a Fallen The Movie story on film. Rather than leave the audience in silence, theater owners would hire a pianist or organist or a full orchestra to play music fitting the mood of the film at any given moment. By the early 1920s, most films came with a prepared list 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 rise of European cinema was interrupted Fallen The Movie by the breakout of World War I while the Fallen The Movie 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 Fallen The Movie with American innovator Fallen The Movie D. W. Fallen The Movie Griffith and the contributions of Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton Fallen The Movie and others, continued Movie Projectors to advance the medium. Fallen The Movie In the 1920s, new technology allowed filmmakers to attach to Fallen The Movie each film a Fallen The Movie soundtrack of speech, music and sound effects synchronized with the action on the screen. These sound films were initially distinguished Fallen The Movie by calling them "talking Fallen The Movie pictures", or talkies.
The next major step in the development Fallen The Movie of cinema was the introduction of Fallen The Movie so-called "natural" color. While the addition of sound quickly eclipsed silent film and theater musicians, color was Fallen The Movie adopted more gradually as methods evolved making Fallen The Movie it Fallen The Movie more practical Fallen The Movie and cost effective to produce "natural Fallen The Movie color" films. The public was relatively indifferent to color photography as opposed to black-and-white,[citation needed] but as color processes improved and became as affordable Fallen The Movie as black-and-white film, more Fallen The Movie and more movies were filmed in color after the Fallen The Movie end Fallen The Movie of World War II, as the industry in Fallen The Movie America came to view color as essential to attracting audiences in its Fallen The Movie competition with television, which remained a black-and-white medium until the mid-1960s. By the Fallen The Movie end of the 1960s, col
Since the decline of the studio system Fallen The Movie in the 1960s, the succeeding decades saw Fallen The Movie changes in the production and style of film. Fallen The Movie New Hollywood, French New Fallen The Movie Wave and the rise of film Fallen The Movie school educated independent filmmakers Fallen The Movie were all part of the changes the medium Fallen The Movie experienced in the latter half of the Fallen The Movie 20th century. Digital technology has been the driving force in change throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century.
Theory
Main article: Fallen The Movie Film theory
Film theory Fallen The Movie seeks to develop concise and systematic concepts that apply to the study of film as art. It was Fallen The Movie started by Fallen The Movie Ricciotto Canudo's The Fallen The Movie Birth of the Fallen The Movie Sixth Fallen The Movie Art. Formalist film theory, led by Rudolf Arnheim, Bela Balazs, Fallen The Movie and Siegfried Kracauer, emphasized how film differed Fallen The Movie from reality, and thus could be Fallen The Movie considered a valid fine art. Andre Bazin reacted against this theory by arguing that film's artistic essence lay in its ability to mechanically Fallen The Movie reproduce reality not in its Fallen The Movie differences from reality, and this gave rise to realist theory. More recent analysis spurred by Lacan's Fallen The Movie 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 of films. In general, these works can Fallen The Movie be divided Fallen The Movie into two categories: academic criticism by film scholars and journalistic film criticism that appears regularly in newspapers and other media.
Film critics working for newspapers, Fallen The Movie magazines, and broadcast media mainly Fallen The Movie review new releases. Normally they only see any given film once Fallen The Movie and have only a day or Free Dvd Movie Software two to formulate opinions. Fallen The Movie Despite this, critics have an important impact on films, especially those of certain genres. Mass marketed action, horror, and comedy films tend not to be greatly affected by a critic's Fallen The Movie overall judgment of a film. The plot summary and description of a Fallen The Movie film that makes up Fallen The Movie the majority of any film review can Fallen The Movie still have an important impact Fallen The Movie on whether people decide to see a film. For prestige films such as most dramas, the influence of reviews is extremely important. Poor reviews will often doom a film to obscurity and financial loss.
The impact of a reviewer Movie Passwords 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 that reviewers cannot make an impact against it. However, the Fallen The Movie cataclysmic failure of Fallen The Movie some heavily-promoted movies which were harshly reviewed, as well as the unexpected success of Fallen The Movie critically praised independent movies indicates that extreme critical reactions Fallen The Movie can have 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 that they refuse to give reviewers an Fallen The Movie advanced viewing to avoid widespread panning of the film. However, this usually backfires Fallen The Movie as reviewers Fallen The Movie are Fallen The Movie wise to the tactic and warn the public that the Fallen The Movie film Fallen The Movie may not be worth seeing Fallen The Movie and the films often do poorly as Fallen The Movie a result.
It is argued that journalist Fallen The Movie film critics should only be known as film reviewers, and true film critics are those who take a more academic Fallen The Movie 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 film Fallen The Movie and filming techniques work, and what effect they Fallen The Movie have on people. Rather than having their works published in newspapers or appear on television, their articles are Fallen The Movie published in scholarly journals, or Fallen The Movie 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 motion pictures became a source of profit almost as soon as the process was invented. Upon Fallen The Movie seeing how successful their new invention, and its product, was in their native Fallen The Movie France, the Lumieres quickly set about touring Fallen The Movie the Continent to exhibit the first Fallen The Movie films privately to royalty and publicly to Fallen The Movie the masses. In Fallen The Movie each country, they would normally add new, local scenes to their Fallen The Movie catalogue and, quickly enough, found local entrepreneurs in the various countries of Europe to buy their equipment and photograph, export, import Fallen The Movie and screen additional product commercially. The Oberammergau Passion Play of 1898[citation needed] was Fallen The Movie the first commercial motion picture ever produced. Other pictures soon followed, Fallen The Movie 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 commanded huge fees Fallen The Movie for their performances. Already by 1917, Charlie Chaplin had a contract that called for an annual salary of one million dollars.
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In the United States today, much of the film industry is centered around Hollywood. Other regional Fallen The Movie centers Fallen The Movie exist in many Fallen The Movie parts of the world, Fallen The Movie such as Fallen The Movie Mumbai-centered Bollywood, the Indian film industry's Hindi cinema which produces Fallen The Movie the largest Fallen The Movie number of films Fallen The Movie in the world.[1] Whether the ten thousand-plus feature length films a year produced by the Valley pornographic film industry should qualify for this 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 Fallen The Movie making equipment have allowed independent Fallen The Movie film productions Fallen The Movie to flourish.
Profit is a key force in the industry, due Fallen The Movie to Fallen The Movie 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 Fallen The Movie to create works of lasting social significance. The Academy Awards (also known as "the Oscars") are the most prominent Fallen The Movie film awards in the United States, providing Fallen The Movie recognition each year to films, ostensibly based on their Fallen The Movie artistic merits.
There is also a Fallen The Movie large industry for educational and instructional films made Fallen The Movie in lieu of or in addition to lectures and texts.
Preview
A preview Fallen The Movie performance refers to a Fallen The Movie showing of a Fallen The Movie movie to a select audience, usually for Fallen The Movie the purposes of corporate promotions, before the public film premiere itself. Previews Fallen The Movie are sometimes used to judge audience reaction, Fallen The Movie which if unexpectedly negative, Fallen The Movie may result Movie Free Download in recutting or even refilming Fallen The Movie 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 shown. The term "trailer" comes from their having Eragon Movie Sequel originally Fallen The Movie been shown at the end of a film programme. That practice did not last long, because patrons tended to leave Fallen The Movie the theater Fallen The Movie after the films ended, but the name has stuck. Trailers are now shown before the film Fallen The Movie (or the A movie in a double feature program) begins.
The Fallen The Movie nature of the Fallen The Movie film determines the size Fallen The Movie and type of crew required during filmmaking. Many Fallen The Movie Hollywood adventure Veggietales Movie films need computer generated imagery (CGI), created by dozens of 3D modellers, animators, rotoscopers and compositors. However, a low-budget, independent film may be made with a skeleton crew, often paid very little. Also, an open source film Fallen The Movie may be Fallen The Movie produced through open, collaborative processes. Filmmaking Fallen The Movie takes place all over the world using different technologies, styles of acting and genre, and is produced in a variety of economic Fallen The Movie contexts that range from state-sponsored Fallen The Movie documentary in China to profit-oriented movie making within the American studio Fallen The Movie system.
This production cycle typically takes three years. The first year is taken up with development. The second year comprises preproduction and production. The third year, post-production and distribution.
Crew
Main article: Film crew
A film crew is a group of Fallen The Movie people hired by a film company, employed during the "production" or "photography" phase, for the Fallen The Movie purpose of producing a Fallen The Movie film or Fallen The Movie motion picture. Crew are distinguished from cast, Fallen The Movie the actors who appear in front of the camera or provide voices for characters Fallen The Movie in the film. The crew interacts with but is also distinct from the production staff, consisting of producers, Fallen The Movie managers, company representatives, their assistants, Fallen The Movie and those whose primary responsibility falls in pre-production or post-production phases, such as writers and editors. Communication between production Fallen The Movie and crew generally passes through Fallen The Movie the director Fallen The Movie and his/her staff of assistants. Medium-to-large crews are generally divided Fallen The Movie into departments with well defined hierarchies and standards for interaction and cooperation between the departments. Other than acting, the crew handles everything in the Fallen The Movie photography phase: props and costumes, shooting, Fallen The Movie sound, electrics (i.e., lights), sets, and production special effects. Caterers (known in Fallen The Movie the film Fallen The Movie industry as "craft services") are usually not considered part of the crew.
Technology
Film stock consists of transparent celluloid, acetate, or polyester base coated with an emulsion containing light-sensitive chemicals. Cellulose nitrate was the Fallen The Movie first type of film base used to record motion pictures, but Fallen The Movie due to its flammability was eventually replaced by safer materials. Stock widths and Fallen The Movie the film format for images on the reel have had a rich history, Fallen The Movie though Fallen The Movie 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 1000 frames per minute Fallen The Movie (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 should be shown) Fallen The Movie [1]. When sound film was introduced in the late 1920s, a constant speed was required for the sound head. Fallen The Movie 24 frames per second was chosen Fallen The Movie because it Fallen The Movie was the slowest (and thus cheapest) speed which allowed for sufficient sound quality. Fallen The Movie Improvements since the late 19th century include the mechanization of cameras � allowing them to record at a consistent speed, quiet Fallen The Movie camera design � allowing sound recorded on-set to be usable without requiring large "blimps" to encase the camera, the invention of more sophisticated filmstocks and lenses, allowing directors to film in increasingly dim conditions, and the development of synchronized sound, allowing sound to be recorded at exactly Fallen The Movie the same speed as its corresponding action. The soundtrack can be recorded separately from shooting Fallen The Movie the film, but for live-action pictures Fallen The Movie many parts of the soundtrack are usually Fallen The Movie recorded simultaneously.
As a medium, film is not limited to motion pictures, since the technology developed as the Fallen The Movie basis for photography. It can be used Fallen The Movie to present a progressive sequence of Fallen The Movie still images in Fallen The Movie the form Fallen The Movie of a slideshow. Film has also been incorporated into multimedia presentations, and often has importance Fallen The Movie as primary historical documentation. However, historic films have problems in terms of preservation and storage, and the Fallen The Movie 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 red, green, or blue filters (essentially a reverse of Fallen The Movie the Technicolor process). Digital methods have also been used to restore films, although their continued obsolescence cycle makes them (as Fallen The Movie of 2006) a poor choice for Fallen The Movie long-term 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 products in order to make them available to future generations (and thereby increase revenue). Fallen The Movie 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 Fallen The Movie and color films preserved on Technicolor Fallen The Movie imbibition prints tend to keep Fallen The Movie up much Fallen The Movie better, assuming proper handling and storage.
Some films in recent decades have been recorded using analog Fallen The Movie video technology similar Fallen The Movie to that used in television production. Fallen The Movie Modern digital video cameras and digital projectors are gaining ground as well. These approaches are extremely beneficial 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 of 2005 most major motion pictures are still recorded on film.
Independent
Main article: Independent film
The Lumiere Brothers
Independent filmmaking often takes place outside of Hollywood, or other major studio Fallen The Movie systems. An independent film (or indie film) is a film initially produced without financing or distribution from a major movie studio. Creative, business, and technological reasons have all contributed to the growth of the indie film scene in the late 20th and early 21st century.
On the business side, the costs of big-budget studio films also leads to conservative choices in cast Fallen The Movie and Fallen The Movie crew. There is a trend in Hollywood towards co-financing (over Fallen The Movie two-thirds of the films put out by Warner Bros. in 2000 were joint ventures, 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 Fallen The Movie he or she has significant Fallen The Movie industry experience in film or television. Also, the studios rarely Fallen The Movie 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 Fallen The Movie produce, direct, or star in a traditional studio film. The cost of 35 mm film is outpacing inflation: in Fallen The Movie 2002 Fallen The Movie alone, film negative costs were Fallen The Movie up Fallen The Movie 23%, according Fallen The Movie to Variety.[2].
But the advent of Fallen The Movie consumer camcorders in 1985, and more importantly, the Fallen The Movie arrival of high-resolution digital Fallen The Movie video in Fallen The Movie the early 1990s, have lowered the technology barrier to Fallen The Movie movie production significantly. Fallen The Movie Both production and post-production Fallen The Movie costs have been significantly lowered; today, the hardware Fallen The Movie and software for post-production can be installed Fallen The Movie in a commodity-based personal computer. Technologies such as DVDs, FireWire connections and non-linear Fallen The Movie editing system pro-level Fallen The Movie software like Adobe Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas and Apple's Fallen The Movie Final Cut Pro, Fallen The Movie and consumer level software Avena Lee Movie Reviews such as Apple's Final Cut Express and iMovie make movie-making relatively inexpensive.
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Since the introduction of DV technology, the means of Fallen The Movie production have become more democratized. Filmmakers can conceivably shoot and edit Fallen The Movie a 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 remain difficult to accomplish outside the traditional system. Most independent filmmakers rely on film festivals to get Fallen The Movie their Fallen The Movie films noticed and sold for distribution. The arrival of internet-based Fallen The Movie video outlets such as YouTube and Veoh has further changed the film making landscape Fallen The Movie in ways that are still to be determined.
Open content Fallen The Movie 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 under a license which is permissive enough to allow other parties Fallen The Movie to create 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 film
A Fallen The Movie fan film is The Movie Teeth 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 films have actually been Fallen The Movie produced by professional filmmakers as film school 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 Fallen The Movie in which each Fallen The Movie frame of a film is produced individually, whether Fallen The Movie generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model unit (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result with a special animation Fallen The Movie camera. When the frames are strung together and the resulting film is viewed Fallen The Movie at a speed of 16 or more frames per second, there is an illusion of continuous movement (due to the persistence Fallen The Movie of Fallen The Movie vision). Fallen The Movie 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 Fallen The Movie GIF, QuickTime, Shockwave and Flash allow animation to be viewed on a computer or over the Internet.
Because Fallen The Movie animation is very time-consuming and often very expensive to produce, the majority of animation for TV and movies comes from Fallen The Movie professional Fallen The Movie animation studios. However, Fallen The Movie the field of independent animation has existed at least since the 1950s, with animation being produced by independent studios (and sometimes Fallen The Movie by a single person). Fallen The Movie Several independent animation producers have gone on to enter Fallen The Movie the professional animation industry.
Limited animation is a way of increasing production and decreasing costs of animation by using "short cuts" in the animation process. This method was pioneered by UPA and popularized by Hanna-Barbera, and adapted by Fallen The Movie other studios as cartoons moved from movie theaters to television.[3]
Although most animation studios Fallen The Movie are now Fallen The Movie using digital technologies in their productions, there is a specific style of animation that Fallen The Movie depends Fallen The Movie on film. Cameraless animation, made famous by moviemakers Fallen The Movie like Norman McLaren, Len Lye and Stan Brakhage, is painted Fallen The Movie and drawn directly onto pieces of film, Fallen The Movie and then run through Fallen The Movie a projector.
Venues
When it is initially produced, a feature film is often shown to audiences in a movie theater or cinema. The first theater designed exclusively for cinema opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in Fallen The Movie 1905.[4] Thousands of such theaters were built or converted from existing facilities within a few years.[5] Fallen The Movie In the United States, these theaters Fallen The Movie came to be known Fallen The Movie as Fallen The Movie nickelodeons, because admission typically cost a Fallen The Movie nickel (five Fallen The Movie cents).
Typically, one film is the featured presentation (or Fallen The Movie feature film). Before the 1970s, there were "double features"; typically, a high quality "A picture" rented by an independent theater for a Fallen The Movie lump sum, and a "B picture" of lower quality rented for a percentage Fallen The Movie of the gross receipts. Today, the bulk of the material shown before the feature film consists of previews Fallen The Movie for upcoming movies and paid advertisements (also known as trailers or "The Twenty").
Historically, all Fallen The Movie mass marketed feature films were made to be shown in movie theaters. The development of television has allowed films to be broadcast to larger audiences, usually after the Fallen The Movie film is no longer being shown in theaters. Recording technology has also enabled consumers Fallen The Movie to rent or buy copies of films on VHS or DVD (and the older formats Fallen The Movie of laserdisc, VCD and SelectaVision � Fallen The Movie see Fallen The Movie also videodisc), and Internet downloads may Fallen The Movie be available and have started to become revenue sources for Fallen The Movie 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 Free Jungle Sex Movie production values on these films are often considered to be Fallen The Movie of Fallen The Movie inferior quality compared to theatrical Fallen The Movie releases in similar genres, and indeed, some films that are Fallen The Movie rejected by Fallen The Movie their own studios upon completion are distributed through these markets.
The movie Fallen The Movie theater pays an average Fallen The Movie of about 50-55% of its ticket sales to the movie studio, as film rental fees.[6] The actual percentage starts with Fallen The Movie a number higher than that, Fallen The Movie and decreases as the duration of a film's showing continues, as an incentive to theaters Fallen The Movie to keep movies in the theater longer. However, today's barrage of highly marketed movies ensures that most movies are shown in first-run theaters for less than 8 weeks. There are a few movies every year that defy this rule, often limited-release movies that start in Fallen The Movie only a few theaters and actually grow their theater count through good word-of-mouth and reviews. According to a 2000 study by Fallen The Movie ABN Fallen The Movie AMRO, about 26% of Hollywood movie studios' worldwide income came from box office ticket sales; 46% came from VHS and DVD sales to consumers; and 28% came from television (broadcast, cable, and pay-per-view).[6]
Future Fallen The Movie state
While motion picture films have been around for more Fallen The Movie than a century, film is still a relative Fallen The Movie newcomer Fallen The Movie in the pantheon of fine Fallen The Movie arts. In the 1950s, when television became widely available, industry analysts predicted the demise of local movie theaters. Despite competition from television's increasing technological sophistication over the 1960s and 1970s, such as the development of color television and large screens, motion picture Fallen The Movie cinemas continued. In the 1980s, when the widespread availability of inexpensive videocassette recorders enabled people Fallen The Movie to Fallen The Movie select 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 Fallen The Movie players, home theater amplification systems with surround sound and Fallen The Movie subwoofers, and large LCD or plasma screens enabled people to select and view films at home with greatly improved audio and visual reproduction. These new technologies Fallen The Movie provided Fallen The Movie audio and visual that in the past only local cinemas had been able to provide: a large, clear widescreen presentation of a film Fallen The Movie with a full-range, high-quality Fallen The Movie multi-speaker sound system. Once again industry analysts predicted the demise of the Fallen The Movie local cinema. Local cinemas will be changing in the 2000s and moving towards digital screens, a Fallen The Movie new approach Fallen The Movie which Fallen The Movie will allow for easier and quicker distribution of films (via satellite or hard disks), a development which may give Fallen The Movie local theaters a reprieve from their predicted demise.
The Fallen The Movie cinema now faces a new challenge from home Fallen The Movie video by the likes of a new DVD format Blu-ray, which can provide full HD 1080p video playback at near cinema quality. Video formats are gradually catching up with the Fallen The Movie resolutions Fallen The Movie and quality that film offers, 1080p in Blu-ray offers a pixel resolution of 1920?1080 a leap from the Fallen The Movie DVD offering of Fallen The Movie 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 Fallen The Movie current film resolutions. The Fallen The Movie only viable competitor to these Fallen The Movie new innovations is IMAX which can play film content at Fallen The Movie an Fallen The Movie extreme 10000?7000 resolution.
Despite the rise of Fallen The Movie all new Fallen The Movie technologies, the development of the home video market and a surge of online piracy, 2007 was a record year in film that showed Fallen The Movie the highest ever box-office grosses. Many expected film to suffer as a result of the effects listed above but it has flourished, strengthening film studio expectations for the future. |
