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Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures. They reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them. Film is considered to ...

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...

The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (‘Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid’) is a cultural-historical organization of natio...

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

Filmmaking involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, through scriptwriting, casting, shooting...

A three-dimensional stereoscopic film (also known as three-dimensional film, 3D film or S3D film) is a motion picture that enhances the il...

In the Netherlands, "Dutch children put out a clog filled with hay and a carrot for Saint Nicholas' horse. On Saint Nicholas' ...

Around 50 light artists have created light installations, sculptures, projections and performanced. These all offer the visitor of GLOW a s...

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

    9.5 mm film is an amateur film format introduced by Pathé in 1922 as part of the Pathé Baby amateur film system. It was conceived initia...

Happy 50th Birthday Super 8! We’re celebrating a very special birthday this year – Super 8 is turning 50! Fifty years ago, Kodak introd...

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 platf...

Blue Movie (1971) In 1971 in the Dutch film world the sex wave also eruptedl. Both Mira and what I see, but particularly in Blue Movie, nu...

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...