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Triumph of the Will was released in 1935 and became a prominent example of propaganda in film history. Riefenstahl's techniques—such ...

In cinematography, the Dutch angle is one of many cinematic techniques often used to portray psychological uneasiness or tension in the s...

Image stabilization (IS) is a family of techniques used to reduce blurring associated with the motion of a camera or other imaging ...

A home movie is a short amateur film or video typically made just to preserve a visual record of family activities, a vacation, or a spec...

;The Albert Cuypmarkt is arguably the best-known and busiest outdoor market in Europe. It attracts thousands of visitors every day, and i...

Amateur films were usually shot on 16 mm film or on 8 mm film (either Double-8 or Super-8) until the advent of cheap video cameras or dig...

Camcorders are used in the production of low-budget TV shows if the production crew does not have access to more expensive equipment. Mo...

The primary difficulty in underwater camera usage is sealing the camera from water at high pressure, while maintaining the ability to ope...

Natuurmonumenten (Dutch Society for Nature Conservation) is going to restore one of the largest freshwater lakes in western Europe by cons...

Abroad, Pathé in particular was working on a colour system – Pathécolor – that made use of stencilling and/or manual colouring. This was ...

During Commemoration Day on the 4th of May, Holland grieves for the people killed in wars with two minutes of silence. The visual comp...

Virtual reality or virtual realities (VR), also known as immersive multimedia or computer-simulated reality, is a computer technology tha...

As a literary device, an allegory in its most general sense is an extended metaphor. Allegory has been used widely throughout history in a...

Virtual artifacts in digital environments Humans have expanded the existing environment to the virtual domain. Virtual artifacts can b...

Pars pro toto, Latin for "a part (taken) for the whole", is a figure of speech where the name of a portion of an object, place, ...

The economic struggles and the everyday life of a woman and mother, Mama Halosina in Huguma village, Yahukimo District, West Papua. Produ...

As a filmmaker, Chaplin is considered a pioneer and one of the most influential figures of the early twentieth century He is often credite...

Digital photography of the late twentieth century greatly simplified this assembly process, which is now known as image stitching. Such st...

A home movie is a short amateur film or video typically made just to preserve a visual record of family activities, a vacation, or a speci...

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past. Historical fiction can be an ambigu...

Soviet montage theory is an approach to understanding and creating cinema that relies heavily upon editing (montage is French for "as...

A false ending has two contexts; in literature it is a narrative device where the plot seems to be heading to its conclusion, but in reali...

The Russian Orthodox Church in Wiesbaden was built from 1847 to 1855 by Duke Adolf of Nassau on the occasion of the early death of his wi...

Motion picture images are presented to an audience at a constant speed. In the theater it is 24 frames per second, in NTSC (US) Televisio...

Imagine how our knowledge would be enriched if we had original movies of home life in the 1700s or 1850s, whatever the circumstance of the...

Rüdesheim lies at the foot of the Niederwald on the Rhine's right (east) bank on the southern approach to the Lorelei. The town belong...

Kochbrunnen The Kochbrunnen fountain on Kranzplatz is not only the symbol of Wiesbaden, but also a place often frequented by the health-...

Experimental film, experimental cinema or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions an...

Post-production Here the video/film is assembled by the video/film editor. The shot film material is edited. The production sound (dial...

The Atlantic Wall (German: Atlantikwall) was an extensive system of coastal defence and fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 ...

Extreme long shot (ELS) The subject or characters are very much to the background of the shot. Surroundings now have as much if not more ...

Thousands of films. We all have our favorites. But what is it about a movie that catches our attention, holds us in its cinematic sway? I...

Nonfiction's specific factual assertions and descriptions may or may not be accurate, and can give either a true or a false account of...

The term "digital storytelling" can also cover a range of digital narratives (web-based stories, interactive stories, hypertext...

Nomination Committee, view the 250+ entered films. After a rigorous discussion-based selection process the long list and nominations are...

The standard pattern for early film studios was provided by the studio which Georges Méliès had built in 1897. This had a glass roof and t...

In filmmaking, visual effects (abbreviated VFX) are the processes by which imagery is created and/or manipulated outside the context of a...

The novelty of realistically moving photographs was enough for a motion picture industry to blossom before the end of the century, in coun...

Celebrity is fame and public attention in the media, usually applied to a person, group of people (celebrity couple, family etc.), or occa...

Historically, video frames were represented as analog waveforms in which varying voltages represented the intensity of light in an analo...

In filmmaking, video production, and other media, live action refers to cinematography or videography that does not use animatio...

An amusement park or theme park is a group of entertainment attractions, rides, and other events in a location for the enjoyment of large ...

Magic is a performing art that entertains audiences by staging tricks or creating illusions of seemingly impossible or supernatural  feats...

Hieronymus Bosch is perceptive and critical. He takes his own environment on the grain and leaves little on the good fellow Christians. Ta...

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

Rastafari is an Abrahamic belief which developed in Jamaica in the 1930s, following the coronation of Haile Selassie I as Emperor of Ethio...

70 mm film is a wide high-resolution film gauge for still and motion picture photography, with higher resolution than the standard 35 mm ...

The term dates from around 1600 during the Thirty Years' War in the Low Countries (Belgium and the Netherlands). The Dutch fortresses...