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Enhancing images In computer graphics, the process of improving the quality of a digitally stored image by manipulating the image with s...

The old factories of Philips in Eindhoven  The first film, which was shot with the cinématographe was La sortie des usines Lumière. ...

Chinese people in the Netherlands form one of the largest overseas Chinese populations in continental Europe. As of 2012, official st...

Montage is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and informatio...

Viewing content online inevitably works differently from TV or the cinema. Arguably, the online viewer is more interested in control and ...

A parody also called spoof, send-up or lampoon, in use, is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work, its sub...

A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture, often containing audio narration. The...

Web archiving is the process of collecting portions of the World Wide Web and ensuring the collection is preserved in an archive, such as ...

Guerrilla filmmaking refers to a form of independent filmmaking characterized by low budgets, skeleton crews, and simple props using what...

The mass media is a diversified collection of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication. The technologies thro...

Skating involves any sports or recreational activity which consists of traveling on surfaces or on ice using skates. Ice skating, movin...

There is very little definite information about this saint. His earliest biographies (two in Latin and two in German), did not appear until...

Film scores encompass an enormous variety of styles of music, depending on the nature of the films they accompany. The majority of scores...

This is the story of the machinist who did not like Dutch “foreigners” to celebrate carnival in his home-town : Bergen op Zoom also know a...

. Germany has a long tradition of cooperation with the European-based film industry, which started as early as during the 1960s. Since 19...

In motion picture terminology, the term tracking shot may refer to a shot in which the camera is mounted on a camera dolly, a wheeled plat...

The University of Oxford (informally Oxford University or simply Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England. ...

The German Wine Gate (Deutsches Weintor) in Schweigen-Rechtenbach on the French border adjacent to Wissembourg (Weißenburg) in France mar...

TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is a series of trade negotiations being carried out between the EU and US. The bi...

In music, a serenade (or sometimes serenata, from the Italian word) is a musical composition, and/or performance, in someone's honor. ...

Saarlouis is a city in the Saarland, Germany, capital of the district of Saarlouis. In 2006, the town had a population of 38,327. Saarloui...

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction...

Swedish filmmaking rose to international prominence when Svenska Biografteatern moved from Kristianstad to Lidingö in 1911. During the ...

Just over a year ago, we became fascinated by the idea of discovering the world through someone else’s eyes. What if you could see through...

Stream quality Stream quality refers to the quality of the image and audio transferred from the servers of the distributor to the user...

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

\ In photography, reversal film is a type of photographic film that produces a positive image on a transparent base. The film is processed ...

The advent of photography, from the Ancient Greek words , together meaning "drawing with light" or "representation by means ...

  Stock footage, and similarly, archive footage, library pictures and file footage is film or video footage that can be used in other f...

What type of thing is film? Film can be described as all of the following: Art – aesthetic expression for presentation or performance,...

F ilmmaking, can be a truly inspiring, rewarding and enjoyable ride, yet as any other craft it takes a lot of hard work, time and effort...

A puppet is an inanimate object animated or manipulated by a puppeteer. It is used in puppetry, which is a very ancient form of theatre. ...

Clay animation or claymation is one of many forms of stop motion animation. Each animated piece, either character or background, is "...

A good, sturdy tripod will let you get smooth pan or tilt movements, but for any other movements you could benefit from a home-made type o...

Battle of Rocroi, (May 19, 1643), a military engagement of the Thirty Years’ War in which a French army of 22,000 men, under the Duke d’En...

Traditionally, the race is held primarily in the month of July. While the route changes each year, the format of the race stays the same w...

Cinema of Belgium refers to the film industry based in Belgium. Belgium is essentially a bi-lingual country divided into the Flemish (Dut...

Imaginary worlds, characters, items, etc. have been described in stories and tales since the dawn of humanity. In the philosophic discours...

The Tropenmuseum is a museum about people, housed in an impressive listed building overlooking Amsterdam’s Oosterpark. The extensive per...

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

The tour, almost 200 km in length, follows a route along frozen canals, rivers and lakes visiting the eleven historic Frisian cities: Leeu...

Amsterdam is known for its art history and in recent years the city's major institutions have stepped up to the historical mark with ...

A film essay (or "cinematic essay") consists of the evolution of a theme or an idea rather than a plot per se, or the film liter...

A remix is a piece of media which has been altered from its original state by adding, removing, and/or changing pieces of the item. A song...

Typical training tasks for companion birds include perching, non-aggression, halting feather-picking, controlling excessive vocalizations,...

In both the United States and Europe, the idea of children's films began to gain relative prominence in the 1930s. According to Bazalg...

A Gouda pipe is a ceramic tobacco pipe, which many men smoked in the 18th century. In 1606, English mercenaries arrived in the Netherland...

The first book about Miffy was published 60 years ago, in 1955. Dick Bruna told his oldest son a story about a bunny hopping around the g...

In cinema special attention must be paid to continuity because films are rarely shot in the order in which they are presented: that is, a ...