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In May 2006, The Economist reported that 90% of clips on YouTube came from amateurs, a few of whom are young comedians. It, in effect, als...

  In cinema, a making-of, also known as behind-the-scenes, the set or on the set is a documentary film that features the production of a...

There are two things that, if added to a camera, will immediately reduce jitter – good old fashioned weight, and a lowered center of gravi...

A parade (also called march or marchpast) is a procession of people, usually organized along a street, often in costume, and often accompa...

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by danc...

A cartoon is a type of two-dimensional illustration. While the specific definition has changed over time, modern usage refers to (a) a typ...

Surrealist cinema is a modernist approach to film theory, criticism, and production with origins in Paris in the 1920s. The movement used ...

viral All the Countries Trolling President Trump's 'America First' With Viral Parody Videos Ashley Hoffman Feb 11, 2017 ...

The British Museum is dedicated to human history, art and culture, and is located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collecti...

  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...

Lighting illuminates the performers and artists in a live theatre, dance, or musical performance, and is selected and arranged to create d...

In the visual arts, many artists, theorists, art critics, art collectors, art dealers and others mindful of the unbroken continuation of m...

The city of Tromso is located in northern Norway’s winter wilderness. Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought I’d make it to ...

A film school is any educational institution dedicated to teaching aspects of filmmaking, including such subjects as film production, film...

The word shrove is a form of the English word shrive, which means to obtain absolution for one's sins by way of Confession and doing p...

With its imposing mountains, endless plateaus and echoing valleys, Norway is a country where nature takes the lead. Using time-lapse, this...

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...