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A sports film is a film genre that uses sport as the theme of a film. Often sports fans are not the target demographic in such movies, but...

Blockbuster, as applied to film, theatre, and sometimes also video games, denotes a very popular or successful production. The entertainm...

Reductions in cost of technology have allowed noise control technology to be used not only in performance facilities and recording studios...

Lac du Bourget (Lake Bourget), also locally known as Lac Gris (Grey Lake) or Lac d'Aix, is a lake at the southernmost end of the Jura ...

Prior to its creation as the Territory of the Saar Basin by the League of Nations after World War I, the Saarland (or simply "the Saa...

Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour . These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amu...

A home is generally a place that is close to the heart of the owner, and can become a prized possession. It has been argued that psycholog...

  Visual effects (abbreviated VFX) is the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live action shot in fi...

Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, with its ele...

Compared to back projection, the front projection process used less studio space, and generally produced sharper and more saturated image...

Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries.Greenpeace states its goal is to "e...

A fairy tale, wonder tale, magic tale, or Märchen is a folklore genre that takes the form of a short story. Such stories typically feature...

The Cinema of Italy comprises the films made within Italy or by Italian directors. Since the development of the Italian film industry in t...

A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or re...

Here are the lyrics: Copying is not theft. Stealing a thing leaves one less left Copying it makes one thing more; that's what co...

Spotting takes place after the director "locks" the film, an act which signifies their decision that no more shot changes wil...

While some films criticize armed conflicts in a general sense, others focus on acts within a specific war, such as the use of poison gas ...

The New Wave (French: La Nouvelle Vague) is a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s....

The world's top bodyguard gets a new client, a hit man who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their dif...

A supercut is a compilation of short video clips of the same type of action, a "fast-paced montage of short video clips that obsess...

A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sove...

A music video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes.Modern music videos are primar...

On its most fundamental level, film editing is the art, technique, and practice of assembling shots into a coherent sequence. The job of a...

Despite the advent of a regular television service in the Federal Republic in 1952, cinema attendances continued to grow through much of ...

A LANDSCAPE : THE VERCORS The Regional Natural Park of the Vercors could fill a book on its own. Most hikers know this 1 000 to 2 300 me...

The Dutch angle, also known as Dutch tilt, canted angle, oblique angle or German angle, is a type of camera shot where the camera is set a...

Aix-en-Provence is situated in a plain overlooking the Arc, about a mile from the right bank of the river. The city slopes gently from nor...

Almost immediately after the 1986 whaling ban came into effect, Japan launched its scientific whaling programme, widely recognised as a c...

Before the camera stabilizing system, a director had two choices for moving (or "tracking") shots: The camera could be mounted...

Development In this stage, the project producer selects a story, which may come from a book, play, another film, true story, video game, ...

The cathedral was built on the site of a temple to Apollo, so the legend goes, between the 5th to the 18th century. The variety of its a...

The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting on stage or in motion pictures or television, but also to an ...

Between 3,000 and 5,000 refugees (estimates vary and the fluid population is hard to count), live in this lawless, pestilent slum.   What...

   In virtual reality (VR), the users' perception of reality is completely based on virtual information. In augmented reality (AR) the u...

While some films criticize armed conflicts in a general sense, others focus on acts within a specific war, such as the use of poison gas ...

William Kentridge (born 28 April 1955) is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. These are constr...

The iPad has several uses in the classroom, and has been praised as a valuable tool for homeschooling. Soon after the iPad was released, ...

Salon was a Gallo-Roman oppidum well positioned on the salt trade routes between Adriatic, Atlantic and Mediterranean seas, hence its name...

Stop motion is an animation technique that physically manipulates an object so that it appears to move on its own. The object is moved in ...

The term Carnival is traditionally used in areas with a large Catholic presence. However, the Philippines, a predominantly Roman Catholic ...

The technological boundaries between home-movie-making and professional movie-making are becoming increasingly blurred as prosumer equipme...

In chronological order, here are 75 films from 1940 onwards which make superb and atmospheric use of black and white photography. Taking t...

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...

Shrimp and prawn are common names without the formal definition that scientific terms provide. They are terms of convenience with little c...

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. The silent film era lasted from 1894 to 1...

Early silent films had stated frame rates anywhere from 16 to 24 FPS, but since the cameras were hand-cranked, the rate often changed dur...

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

Dappermarkt in Amsterdam A marketplace, which in 2007 has been judged the Best Market of the Netherlands. It is located along one street ...