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Initially, the Gauls settled an oppidum at the site of what is now the Puy St Clair because it was a site surrounded by cliffs and so easy...

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

The Ardèche is a 125 km long river in south-central France, a right-bank tributary of the River Rhône. Its source is in the Massif Central...

 Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev) The film was the first of Eisenstein's dramatic films to use sound. (The earlier Bezhin Meadow, had al...

  Nordiska museet is Sweden’s largest museum of cultural history. It is home to over one and a half million exhibits, including exclusive it...

Ever since the first sound movie, The Jazz Singer was made in 1929 on Stage 5 of the Warner Bros. lot in Hollywood the movie going public h...

The Filmmuseum is Holland's museum for cinematography. The museum's collection of films covers the whole of the history of cinema ...

The problem with letterboxing is that it shrinks the viewing area of the television screen, which, if you have a small set to begin with, ...

Swedish cinema is known as producing many critically acclaimed movies, and during the 20th century was the most prominent of Scandinavia....

During the First World War, Arras was near the front and a series of battles were fought around the city, and nearby Vimy Ridge. A series...

   The first serious attempt to use airplanes in the Arctic occurred in 1923 when Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen--who in 1911 had been th...

Theme music is a piece that is often written specifically for a radio program, television program, video game or movie, and usually played ...

Wireless communication is the transfer of information between two or more points that are not connected by an electrical conductor. The mo...

The name "film" originates from the fact that photographic film (also called film stock) has historically been the medium for rec...

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

Whaling is the hunting of whales primarily for meat and oil. Its earliest forms date to at least 3000 BC.[1] Various coastal communities ha...

The Fyra has a poor reputation for reliability. After a month of operations more than 5% of all trains were cancelled and less than 45% of...

Opinion of Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu “I consciously did away with fade-ins and replaced them with the cut. Henceforth, I never used...

Subtitles are derived from either a transcript or screenplay of the dialog or commentary in films, television programs, video games, and t...

Llanes  is a municipality of the province of Asturias, in northern Spain. Stretching for about 30 km along the coast at the extreme east...

Russian Revolution of 1917 In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, the church was ransacked and looted, badly damaging its interior. ...

Stock footage, and similarly, archive footage, library pictures and file footage are film or video footage that is not custom shot for us...

Bad sound: Any seasoned filmmaker will tell you that having good sound is more important than having good images. So, if you're in the...

In the time of Peter the Great, the sea floor just north of the Peterhof site and to the east toward St. Petersburg was too shallow for ...

  A walk through this nice and attractive northern French city The history of AMIENS is enriched by its local traditions and its inhabitan...

  Amiens Cath edral, the tallest of the large, classic, Gothic churches of the 13th century and the largest in France of it s kind, is a Wo...

Since filming is not allowed inside I made use of found footage for the interior Found footage is a filmmaking term which describes a met...

Even Shakespeare used slang. A simple internet search reveals that. It’s a different story that his lingo influenced most of the English l...

an impression of the living conditions of a foreign student Uppsala University (Swedish: Uppsala universitet) is a research university...

A film school may be part of an existing public or private college or university, or part of a privately owned for-profit institution. Dep...

Cinéma vérité (or the closely related direct cinema) was dependent on some technical advances in order to exist: light, quiet and reliable...

Trollywood is the informal name for a film production facility in Trollhättan Municipality, Sweden. Movies shot there include Fucking Åmål...

A slide show may be a presentation of images purely for their own visual interest or artistic value, sometimes unaccompanied by descriptio...

Gaudí's work was influenced by his passions in life: architecture, nature, and religion. Gaudí considered every detail of his creation...

In Japan, Striped, Spotted, Risso's, and Bottlenose dolphins are most commonly hunted, but several other species such as the False Kil...

Park Hilaria is the biggest fun fair in Eindhoven. It takes place for 10 days in the summer every year at the JF Kennedylaan, close to whe...

In film and video, a cutaway shot is the interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else. It is usually...

;St. Petersburg is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Founded in 1703 by Emperor Peter the Great as his "window to the We...

Camera BasicsHolding: Single HandOne basic technique is holding your camera with one hand and supporting that elbow with your free hand. ...

Storytelling is the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, often with improvisation, theatrics, or embellishment. Stories or nar...

"Deze remix is gemaakt in het kader van Celluloid Remix en bevat speciaal geselecteerd materiaal uit de collectie van het Filmmuseu...

The illusions or tricks of the eye used in the film, television, theatre, video game, and simulator industries to simulate the imagined ev...

The Camino de Santiago also known by the English names Way of St. James, St. James's Way, St. James's Path, St. James's Trail...

A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. Flashbacks are oft...

The fortress was established by Peter the Great on May 16 1703 on small Hare Island by the north bank of the Neva River, the last upstream...

  Fairy tales have been enacted dramatically; records exist of this in commedia dell'arte, and later in pantomime. Unlike oral and liter...

Aerial shots are usually done with a crane or with a camera attached to a special helicopter to view large landscapes. This sort of shot...