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Cross-cutting: Cutting between different sets of action that can be occurring simultaneously or at different times, (this term is used sy...

Malta , officially the Republic of Malta, is a Southern European island country comprising an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. It lies...

The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the world's largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988...

Widescreen images are a variety of aspect ratios used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film ima...

Horror is also a genre of film and fiction that relies on horrifying images or situations to tell stories and prompt reactions in their au...

The visual arts are art forms such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, filmmaking ...

Dubbing, mixing, or re-recording is a post-production process used in filmmaking and video production in which additional or supplementar...

A predecessor to video journalism first appeared in the 1960s in the USA, when reporters had to write and shoot their own stories. Mich...

The cinema of Romania is the art of motion-picture making within the nation of Romania or by Romanian filmmakers abroad. As upon muc...

Jurassic Park is an American media franchise centering on a disastrous attempt to create a theme park of cloned dinosaurs. It began in 199...

Swedish film has long enjoyed international success, famous for auteurs such as Ingmar Bergman. A new generation of directors – such as R...

Black and white, often abbreviated B/W or B&W, and hyphenated black-and-white when used as an adjective, is any of several monochrom...

The film: Vedder has to step aside when his home, opposite the recently completed Central Station in Amsterdam, must yield for the plann...

Many Christmas stories have been adapted to movies and TV specials, and have been broadcast and repeated many times on TV. Since the popul...

. A point of view shot (also known as POV shot or a subjective camera) is a short film scene that shows what a character (the subject) is ...

Non-diegetic sound: It is sound which is represented as coming from a source outside the story space, i.e. its source is neither visible o...

In 1889 the hotel had bought five houses at the Damrak and three on the Prins Hendrikkade. Among them was the historic, dating from 1633 H...

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...