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The movie industry was born in Paris when Auguste and Louis Lumière projected the first motion picture for a paying audience at the Grand ...

Marburg remains a relatively unspoilt, spire-dominated, castle-crowned Gothic/Renaissance city on a hill partly because it was isolated b...

Romance films (or romance movies) are romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theaters and on cinema that focus on...

  The NCJF archive exclusively owns an estimated 10,000 cans of film (35 mm, 16 mm, 8 mm, super 8) and thousands of master videotapes. This...

Deze opnamen zijn gemaakt door P.H. Mullaard en gevonden als losse film op een rol. Het zijn mogelijk proef-opnamen en het is vooralsnog...

  A "time loop" or "temporal loop" is a plot device in which periods of time are repeated and re-experienced by the char...

According to 2014 data based on the 2011 census, 62.3 percent of the population speaks German (Standard German in the written norm and an ...

Shoemaking is a traditional handicraft profession, which has now been largely superseded by industrial manufacture of footwear. Shoemakers...

The identity of the British industry, and its relationship with the Cinema of the United States, has been the subject of debate. The histo...

Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the Metropolitan City of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tu...

The narrator is, within any story, the fictional or non-fictional, personal or impersonal entity who tells the story to the audience. When...

Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, and produced by Camero...

  There are many different types of video production. The most common include film and TV production, television commercials, internet com...

A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or re...

France is the birthplace of cinema and was responsible for many of its significant contributions to the art form and the film-making proce...

Sports films have been made since the era of silent films, such as the 1915 film The Champion starring Charlie Chaplin. Films in this genr...

Amsterdam Chinatown Found right beside the bustling market square of Nieuwmarkt and the ever popular Red Light District, the Amsterdam C...

Pure Goddess, whose silver covers These sacred ancient plants, we turn to your lovely face unclouded and without veil...  Temper, oh ...

A super8 mm film. Animal training refers to teaching animals specific responses to specific conditions or stimuli. Training may be for ...

The first films seen in the Russian Empire were brought in by the Lumière brothers, who exhibited films in Moscow and St. Petersburg in Ma...

Dresden has a long history as the capital and royal residence for the Electors and Kings of Saxony, who for centuries furnished the city w...

Originally, in general film-making usage, the "money shot" was simply the scene that cost the most money to produce. In general,...

The development of home movie-making has depended critically on availability of equipment and media formats (film stock, video tape, etc.)...

Film promotion is the practice of promotion specifically in the film industry, and usually occurs in coordination with the process of film...

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. The silent film era lasted from 1895 to 1...

A feature film is a film (also called a movie or motion picture) with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole fi...

  The Cinema of Italy comprises the films made within Italy, or by Italian directors. Since the development of the Italian film industry in...

A truly mind-blowing confection of some of Europe's most awesome architecture, the City of Arts and Science in Valencia is fast becomi...

The Water Music is a collection of orchestral movements, often published as three suites, composed by George Frideric Handel. It premiered...

The Cloppenburg Museum Village and Lower Saxon Open-Air Museum (German: Museumsdorf Cloppenburg – Niedersächsisches Freilichtmuseum) locat...

A houseboat (different from boathouse, which is a shed for storing boats) is a boat that has been designed or modified to be used primar...

In motion pictures, an overture is a piece of music setting the mood for the film before the opening credits start

A part of a documentary i made a reconstruction of the bombing of this German city. It is widely considered that the bombing of Dresden w...

("Enchanted City") lies in a 20 sq. km. nature reserve, 36 km. north of Cuenca in the Jucar valley, southeast of Madrid, and res...

The 1953 North Sea flood was a major flood caused by a heavy storm, that occurred on the night of Saturday, 31 January 1953 and morning o...

In this setup, each of the various shots and camera angles are taken using the same camera, which is moved and reset to get each shot or n...

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe is a landscape park in Kassel, Germany. The area of the park is 2.4 square kilometres (590 acres), making it the lar...

Prague specifics * Zizkov - ex-working class district of Prague. It's the contemporary Czech center of Prague in the sense that the Old...

Josefov is an area of central Prague, today Czech Republic, formerly the Jewish ghetto of the town. The quarter is often represented by th...

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated on the Vltava river in central Bohemia, it is home to approximately ...

Video editing is the process of editing segments of motion video production footage, special effects and sound recordings in the post-produ...

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dia...

  T his video is 3.30 minutes (25mb)Zaragoza is the capital city of the autonomous region and former kingdom of Aragon in Spain, and is loca...

  A Book Town is a small rural town or village in which second-hand and antiquarian bookshops are concentrated. Most Book Towns have develop...

      A tracking shot is any shot where the camera follows backward, forward or moves alongside the subject being recorded. In cinematograph...

 Home movies are motion pictures made by amateurs, often for viewing by family and friends. When the hobby began, home movies were produc...

; A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. Flashbacks are often use...

What is a video transition?Transitions are the mechanism used to change from one shot to the next in a video production. There are a vast ...