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There are also many films and photographs from the EYE collection available online. At present, the website covers the introduction of fil...

Saint Petersburg was founded by the Tsar Peter the Great on May 27 [O.S. 16] 1703. From 1713 to 1728 and from 1732 to 1918, Saint Petersbu...

Info: A historical, cultural and culinary landmark, the Grand Hotel Europe has played an important role in the life of St. Petersburg for...

Trevi (Latin: Trebiae) is an ancient town and comune in Umbria, Italy, on the lower flank of Monte Serano overlooking the wide plain of th...

The Golden Bear is the highest prize awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival. The bear is the heraldic animal o...

A tapeless camcorder is a camcorder that does not use video tape for the digital recording of video productions as 20th century ones did. ...

Liseberg is an amusement park located in Gothenburg, Sweden, that opened in 1923. It is one of the most visited amusement parks in Scandina...

Works modeled on, or inspired by, the Pantheon The Rotunda designed by Thomas Jefferson at the University of Virginia. As the best-pres...

  The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague or FAMU is one of the oldest film schools in the world. Located in Prag...

Film title design is (and always has been) an essential part of any motion picture. It was originally a motionless piece of artwork calle...

Fictional film or narrative film is a film that tells a fictional or fictionalized story, event or narrative. In this style of film, belie...

Hollywood on the Tiber In the late 1940s, Hollywood studios began to shift production abroad to Europe. Italy was, along with Britain,...

a>Over 250 international and Russian movies were filmed in Saint Petersburg. Well over a thousand feature films about tsars, revolution,...

By the end of the 15th century, the city developed rapidly. After the Spaniards conquered Antwerp, many rich Jews fled to Amsterdam. The mo...

Bergen International Film Festival is organised in various sections: Checkpoints, the main program at BIFF, hosted with the Rafto Fou...

A drive-in theater is a form of cinema structure consisting of a large outdoor movie screen, a projection booth, a concession stand and a ...

A bird's-eye view is an elevated view of an object from above, with a perspective as though the observer were a bird, often used in t...

Barrandov Studios is a famous set of film studios in Prague, Czech Republic. It is the largest film studio in the country and one of the l...

  Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation , now a division ...

The Basque Country: Euskadi is an autonomous community of northern Spain. The Basque Country or Basque Autonomous Community was granted t...

Super 8 mm film (often simply called Super 8) is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement of the ol...

Keep your audience interested The most important job of any storyteller is to keep the audience interested, and avoid disorienting them in...

A match is a small stick of wood or strip of cardboard with a solidified mixture of flammable chemicals deposited on one end. When that en...

The Western genre sometimes portrays the conquest of the wilderness and the subordination of nature in the name of civilization or the conf...

Users nowadays create their own content. There is no longer one truth provided by one source, but instead thereâs an system of truths provi...

In the performing arts, a scenario  from Italian: that which is pinned to the scenery; pronounced  is a synoptical collage of an event or s...

Alsace is one of the great, under-appreciated treasures of the wine world. This pretty enclave of fairytale villages in the lee of the for...

Many compact digital cameras can perform both an optical and a digital zoom. A camera performs an optical zoom by moving the zoom lens so...

Blogging has also introduced opportunities for a new wave of amateur film critics to have their opinions heard. These review blogs may foc...

Although camera movements are often implemented to add excitement to shots, their best use is when new information is revealed. At the beg...

A disaster film or disaster movie is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster as its subject and primary plot device. Such d...

In the all night cafe At a quarter past eleven, Same old man is sitting there on his own Looking at the world Over the rim of his tea-cup,...

A Zoom lens allows a camera operator to change their focal length within a shot or quickly between setups for shots. As prime lenses offe...

  Transitions In film or video scene consists of a sequence of shots. Each shot is made from a different perspective and then they are joi...

"Walhalla" means "hall of the dead". "German - Germanic" personalities may be considered for a place in this...

The style blends a modern Art Nouveau style but mirrors some of the architectural influences of nearby buildings such as the Gothic Llotja...

The Black Canyon of the Colorado is the canyon on the Colorado River where Hoover Dam was built. The canyon is located on the Colorado Ri...

Movie posters are like trailers and websites: you don’t realize how important they are until you realize how hard it is to make a good on...

Shooting Permits Film and television recordings on public streets, routes and squares as well as in city buildings and areas require au...

A web film is a film made with the medium of the Internet and its distribution constraints in mind. This term aims to differentiate conten...

The Pena National Palace (Portuguese: Palácio Nacional da Pena) is a Romanticist palace in São Pedro de Penaferrim, municipality of Sintra,...

Although camera movements are often implemented to add excitement to shots, their best use is when new information is revealed. At the beg...

Trier lies in a valley between low vine-covered hills of red sandstone in the west of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, near the border w...

Kitsch ( loanword from German, also called cheesiness and tackiness) is a low-brow style of mass-produced art or design using popular or ...

BRAND FIVE James Sinclair, 1960s, Super 8, color, silent, 7:57 Location: Germany [?] Shown at Home Movie Day Raleigh, North Carolin...

A film release refers to the authorization by the owner of a completed film to a public exhibition of the film. The exhibition may be in t...

  Subjective camera: The camera is used in such a way as to suggest the point of view of a particular character. High- or low-angle shot...

A film school is any educational institution dedicated to teaching aspects of filmmaking, including such subjects as film production, film...

The Walt Disney Studios is an American film studio, one of the five major businesses of The Walt Disney Company and the main component of ...