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 'Le Mystère Picasso' is a remarkable documentary film made by French director, Henri-Georges Clouzot, in which stop-action and ...

A newsreel is a form of short documentary film, containing news stories and items of topical interest, that was prevalent between the 1910...

A positive image is a normal image. A negative image is a total inversion, in which light areas appear dark and vice versa. A negative col...

In social animals (including humans), silence can be a sign of danger. Many social animals produce seemingly haphazard sounds which are kn...

"Mise-en-scène" also includes the composition, which consists of the positioning and movement of actors, as well as objects, in ...

Les frères Lumière released the first projection with the Cinematograph, in Paris on 28 December 1895. The French film industry in the lat...

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to be the size of a molecule deep inside a single cell? How does your DNA move and how do the ...

A scanning electron microscope ( SEM ) is a type of electron microscope that produces images of a sample by scanning the surface with ...

After the 2nd World war, films of the acclaimed documentary film directors Bert Haanstra and Herman van der Horst dominated Dutch cinema. ...

Sound City Studios is a recording studio opened in 1969 in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It was the subject of ...

  Found footage is a cinematic technique in which all or a substantial part of the work is presented as if it were film or video recordi...

Graphic design is the process of visual communication and problem-solving through the use of typography, photography, iconography and illu...

Film is used for a range of goals, including education and propaganda. When the purpose is primarily educational, a film is called an ...

During the 1620s Jan Pieterszoon Coen in particular insisted that families and orphans be sent from Holland to populate the colonies. As a...

An art film is typically a serious, independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. It is "intended to...

A comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amuse...

  In filmmaking, a long take (also called continuous take or continuous shot) is a shot lasting much longer than the conventional editing ...

A propaganda film is a film that involves some form of propaganda. Propaganda films may be packaged in numerous ways, but are most often ...

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

A film format is a technical definition of a set of standard characteristics regarding image capture on photographic film, for either stil...

A fan film is a film or video inspired by a film, television program, comic book, book, or video game created by fans rather than by the...

  Chroma key compositing (or chroma keying) is a technique for compositing (layering) two images together. A color range in the top layer...

An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 American concert/documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President A...

While Wuhan has been a traditional manufacturing hub for decades, it is also one of the areas promoting modern industrial changes in China...

History is one of the three main genres in Western theatre alongside tragedy and comedy, although it originated, in its modern form, thous...

The Dutch angle, also known as Dutch tilt, canted angle, or oblique angle, is a type of camera shot which involves setting the camera at a...

Does she turn towards you or away from you? They disagree. She is the mysterious person in the 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' by Dut...

Eye Filmmuseum is a film archive and museum in Amsterdam that preserves and presents both Dutch and foreign films screened in the Netherla...

A fan film is a film or video inspired by a film, television program, comic book or a similar source, created by fans rather than by the s...

Fine-art photography is photography created in line with the vision of the photographer as artist, using photography as a medium for creat...

The Gallery of Honour is an extended corridor directed towards a clear focal point: the Night Watch Gallery. On view in the side alcoves a...

The only museum of microbes, in the centre of Amsterdam. You can’t see them, but they’re here. They are on you. In you. And you’ve got ...

Close-ups are used in many ways and for many reasons. They are often employed as cutaways from a more distant shot to show detail, such as...

"Where they are not, nothing is happening" was the motto of the cameramen of Polygoon who traveled through the Dutch country to...

Montage is the technique by which separate pieces of film are selected, edited, and then pieced together to make a new section of film. A ...

Film narrative does not have the luxury of having a textual narrator that guides its audience towards a formative narrative; nor does it h...

Outdoor exhibition In this exhibition the public gets to know groups of women from Amsterdam New West. From residents who have been livi...

 Alÿs films in cities and villages, but also in places dominated by conflict and tension – such as Afghanistan or a Yazidi refugee camp i...

  Medieval fasting was a serious business and there were many rules to be followed. Generally, a fast day meant that no meat could be ea...

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

  Documentary films were originally called actuality films, and were one minute, or less, in length. Over time, documentaries have evolved...

Filters modify the images recorded. Sometimes they are used to make only subtle changes to images; other times the image would simply no...

Film teasers are usually made for big-budget and popularly themed movies. Their purpose is less to tell the audience about a movie's c...

The 30-degree rule is a basic film editing guideline that states the camera should move at least 30 degrees relative to the subject betwee...

 A scene could show a man going into battle, with flashbacks to his youth and to his home-life and with added special effects, placed into...

Carnival in the Netherlands (Dutch: Carnaval; also called "vastenavond" – eve of the fasting) is a festival held mainly in the S...

Filmmaking – process of making a film. Filmmaking involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, th...

2D animation figures are created or edited on the computer using 2D bitmap graphics and 2D vector graphics. This includes automated compu...

A great movie is the one with the best quality sound. That is the sole intention of having this iMovie sound effects to differentiate bet...