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Gerolsteiner Brunnen GmbH & Co. KG (Gerolsteiner) is a leading German mineral water firm with its seat in Gerolstein in the Eifel moun...

A natural history film or wildlife film is a documentary film about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures, usually concentra...

Sound is used extensively in filmmaking to enhance presentation, and is distinguished into diegetic ("actual sound"), and non-d...

A background light is used to illuminate the background area of a set. The background light will also provide separation between the subjec...

Marching Band is an activity consisting of instrumental musicians performing outdoors for the purpose of entertainment, exercise, and some...

Pure cinema is complementary pieces of film put together, like notes of music make a melody. There are two primary uses of cutting or mont...

They call themselves “orphanistas”: archivists, historians, students, filmmakers and film buffs who assemble every two years to view what t...

In the late 19th century, during the early years of cinema, France produced several important pioneers. Auguste and Louis Lumiere invented ...

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider. Its verb for...

A natural history film or wildlife film is a documentary film about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures, usually concentr...

The Welsh people (Welsh: Cymry) are an ethnic group and nation indigenous to Wales and associated with the Welsh language. The Welsh lang...

Fantasy films are films with fantastic themes, usually involving magic, supernatural events, make-believe creatures, or exotic fantasy wor...

Early documentary filmmakers, bolstered by Soviet montage theory and the French Impressionist cinema principle of photogenie, appropriated...

International Workers' Day is a celebration of the international labour movement that occurs on May Day, May 1, a traditional Spring h...

A dance film is a film in which dance is a central theme of the story. In such films, the creation of choreography typically exists only ...

Palace Of The Czar   The dominant natural feature of Peterhof is a sixteen-metre-high bluff lying less than a hundred metres from the shor...

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 shots i...

A propaganda film is a film that involves some form of propaganda. Propaganda films may be packaged in numerous ways, but are most often do...

International Workers' Day is a celebration of the international labour movement that occurs on May Day, May 1, a traditional Spring ...

A travel documentary is a documentary film, television program or online series that describes travel in general or tourist attractions wit...

An important element of "putting in the scene" is set design—the setting of a scene and the objects (props) visible in a scene. ...

As with much Soviet art during the 1920s, films addressed major social and political events of the time. Probably the single most important...

Costume design is the fabrication of clothing for the overall appearance of a character or performer. Costume is specific in the style ...

Der Vulkaneifel Remix culture has been a hot topic lately in the media creation world. Essentially, “remix culture” refers to the ever...

Super-8 Filmmaking has experienced a resurgence. Super-8 film enthusiasts can purchase Super-8 Cameras from around the World via eBay and ...

Although Dinky Toys were not known as widely for producing television related models as Corgi Toys, they still made a number of vehicles...

Entre-deux-mers (literally, between two seas) is a dry white wine made in Bordeaux. The appellation is one of the largest in the Bordeaux ...

Optical theory An article published in 2004, by Margaret S. Livingstone, professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, suggests th...

  Movies filmed in Scotland On top of the works created by Scottish directors, there have been many successful non-Scottish films shot in...

The 30° rule is a basic film editing guideline that states the camera should move at least 30° between shots of the same subject. This chan...

  A sports film is a film genre in which any particular sport plays a prominent role in the film's plot or acts as its central theme. It...

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...

The film editor works with the raw footage, selecting shots and combining them into sequences to create a finished motion picture. Film ed...

The 1922 discovery by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon of Tutankhamun's nearly intact tomb received worldwide press coverage. It spark...

An open content film is much like an independent film, but it is produced through open collaborations; its source material is available und...

A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Acad...

Slide shows originally consisted of a series of individual photographic slides projected onto a screen with a slide projector. When referr...

Huesca celebrates its most important annual festival in August: the festival (or fiesta) of San Lorenzo (Saint Lawrence), a native of Huesc...

Video8 had one major advantage over the full-size competition. Thanks to their compact-form factor, Video8 camcorders were small enough to ...

St. Vitus Cathedral (Czech: Katedrála svatého Víta) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Prague, and the seat of the Archbishop of Prague. The...

CUTAWAYS In a cutaway, you simply leave the main action for a brief scene to film something else that's related to your movie. In the...

On the banks of the Neva . The Neva is the main waterway of Petersburg and the town is situated along its banks and across the islands of...

Foot Of The Pyrenees 70 mm film (or 65 mm film) is a wide high-resolution film gauge for still and motion picture photography, with high...

A hidden camera is a still or video camera used to film people without their knowledge. The camera is "hidden" because it is eit...

     In 1965, Super-8 film was released and was quickly adopted by the amateur film-maker. It featured a better quality image, and was easie...

Chinese Graveyard The Cinema of China is one of three distinct historical threads of Chinese-language cinema together with the Cinema ...

Historical records of events have been made for thousands of years in one form or another. Amongst the earliest are cave painting, runic al...

Romulus and Remus are the twin brothers and central characters of Rome's foundation myth. Romulus wants to found the new city on the ...

The monastery grounds contain two baroque churches, designed by father and son Trezzini and built in 1717–22 and 1742–50, respectively; a...