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China is the home of the largest film studio in the world, the Hengdian World Studios, and in 2010 it had the third largest film industry...

A study by an international team of researchers published in October 2010 confirmed Y. pestis was the cause of the Black Death and later e...

Viral videos are among the most common type of viral phenomena. A viral video is any clip of animation or film that is spread rapidly thro...

Mérida has been populated since prehistoric times as demonstrated by a prestigious hoard of gold jewellery that was excavated from a girl...

Rubia was an economically important source of a red pigment in many regions of Asia, Europe and Africa. The genus name Rubia derives from ...

Colorfulness, chroma, pure color and saturation are related but distinct concepts in colorimetry and color theory, referring to the percei...

Geography Fontaine-de-Vaucluse ("spring of Vaucluse") is built around a spring in a valley at the foot of the Vaucluse Mountain...

Sur le Pont d'Avignon On y danse, On y danse Sur le Pont d'Avignon On y danse tous en rond On the bridge of Avignon We all dan...

A slide is a specially mounted individual transparency intended for projection onto a screen using a slide projector. This allows the phot...

Carnival is a Western Christian festive season that occurs before the liturgical season of Lent. The main events typically occur during F...

Practical effect techniques The use of prosthetic makeup, animatronics, puppetry, or creature suits to create the appearance of living cr...

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

The Feast of Corpus Christi (Latin for Body of Christ) is a Latin Rite liturgical solemnity celebrating the belief in the body and blood o...

Rubia is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It contains around 80 species of perennial scrambling or climbing herbs and ...

Joop Geesink (The Hague, April 28, 1913 - Amsterdam, May 13, 1984) was a famous Dutch film producer. He is best known for his work with do...

    The Motion Picture Association (MPA) is an American trade association representing the five major film studios of the United States, as ...

River engineering is the process of planned human intervention in the course, characteristics, or flow of a river with the intention of pr...

The Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (1925–1991) played a key role in the rise of kinetic art in the fifties. With over a hundred machine sculpt...

An aurora, sometimes referred to as a polar light or northern light, is a natural light display in the sky, predominantly seen in the high...

Thomas Edwin Mix (born Thomas Hezikiah Mix; January 6, 1880 – October 12, 1940) was an American film actor and the star of many early West...

An ice boat (often spelled as "iceboat") is a boat or purpose-built framework similar in functional design to a sail boat but fi...

A cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the chief over the camera crews working on a film, tele...

This short film written by Argentine artist Patricio Plaza and directed by Santiago Grasso provides a strong message on work, alienation a...

Reimerswaal is a lost city in the Netherlands. The present-day municipality of Reimerswaal is named after this city, which was granted ...

A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, ...

> A filming location is a place where some or all of a film or television series is produced, in addition to or instead of using sets co...

A film treatment (or simply treatment) is a piece of prose, typically the step between scene cards (index cards) and the first draft of a ...

CRYSTAL can be experienced in Eindhoven. The permanent artwork consists out of hundreds of LED-crystals which brighten when people touch t...

A 59 year old carpenter recovering from a heart attack, befriends a single mum and her two kids as they navigate their way through the ka...

When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, taking a photo was a crime. After the regime fell from power in 2001, a fledgling free press emerged ...

  Early documentary films, originally called "actuality films", lasted one minute or less. Over time, documentaries have evolved t...

 Most 2016-era virtual realities are displayed either on a computer monitor, a projector screen, or with a virtual reality headset (also c...

Manuel is a fictional character from the BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers. Played by Andrew Sachs, he is one of the most iconic characters in Brit...

The art form of film is different from painting. Painting is one particular moment in time, frozen. Film is fluid, seeming to move through...

Dordrecht filmed from the Wijnhaven and Voorstraatshaven canal, which flows into the river Maas. In the background is the Grote Kerk visib...

EVIDENCE Evidence is an 8 minute 35mm film authored by Godfrey Reggio, during his term as director of Fabrica - a new school founded by ...

Video captured by citizens and activists can be instrumental in drawing attention to human rights abuses, calling for investigations and ...

The avant-garde are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox, with respect to art, culture, and society. It may be cha...

S top motion (hyphenated stop-motion when used as an adjective) is an animation technique that physically manipulates an object so that it ...

Each frame of an extra print of the black-and-white film to be colored was rear-projected onto a sheet of frosted glass, as in rotoscopin...

Marketing a film When a new film is made, it has to be advertised like any other new product, to let people know it exists and to encour...

Crash is a 1996 British-Canadian psychological thriller film written and directed by David Cronenberg based on J. G. Ballard's 1973 no...

Here’s how the Dutch animators behind this project explain what’s unfolding before your eyes: [We] cleared the original landscape of the...

In support of the mission of the University of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) preserves films and videos produc...

Science fiction film (or sci-fi) is a genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully acce...

Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film indu...

LED stands for light emitting diode and is a solid-state semiconductor device. Only recently, LED’s of sufficient power have become availab...