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Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films. It is sometimes ...

                                       § In Francis Alÿs’s video REEL-UNREEL, the action takes place along the bare cityscape of Kabul, A...

Experimental filmmakers generally begin as amateurs, and some used experimental films as a springboard into commercial film making ...

  A sound blimp is a housing attached to a camera which reduces the sound caused by the shutter click, particularly SLRs. It is primarily ...

In 2013, it was estimated that 92% of movie theatres in the United States had converted to digital, with 8% still playing film. Although...

A nature documentary or wildlife documentary is a genre of documentary film or series about animals, plants, or other non-human living cre...

Magic lantern slides brought the world to life in pictures. The first lantern slides were created in the 1600s, around 200 years before ...

  Now online education company MasterClass has made some of his knowledge easily accessible in the form of their new course "David Lync...

Filmmaking involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, through scriptwriting, casting, shootin...

A film transition is a technique used in the post-production process of film editing and video editing by which scenes or shots are combin...

Before the widespread use of digital non-linear editing systems, the initial editing of all films was done with a positive copy of the fil...

A shot in which the camera moves alongside or parallel to its subject. Traditionally tracking shots are filmed while the camera is mounted...

A web film is a film made with the medium of the Internet and its distribution constraints in mind. This term aims to differentiate c...

. In photography and cinematography, available light (also called ambient light or practical light) refers to any source of light that i...

An interview is essentially a structured conversation where one participant asks questions , and the other provides answers. In common...

The Disadvantages of Tourism. Environmental. Tourism can often cause environmental damage with risks like erosion, pollution, the loss of ...

A nature documentary or wildlife documentary is a genre of documentary film or series about animals, plants, or other non-human living cre...

Cinephilia (/ˌsɪnɪˈfɪliə/; also cinemaphilia or filmophilia) is the term used to refer to a passionate interest in films, film theory, and...

  Oil has been found in the poverty-stricken African country of Uganda. Much of the oil is located under protected natural parks that provid...

A film still (sometimes called a publicity still or a production still) is a photograph taken on or off the set of a movie or televisio...

A screenplay, or script, is a written work by screenwriters for a film, television program, or video game. These screenplays can be origin...

Super 8mm film is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement over the older "Double" or ...

A sports film is a film genre that uses sport as the theme of the film. It is a production in which a sport, sporting event, athlete (and ...

On rare occasions, 360° panoramic movies have been constructed for specially designed display spaces—typically at theme parks, world's...

  Yes, it is absolutely best to see real Viking ships and authentic Viking sites up close. But since that isn’t possible right now, why no...

Observational documentaries attempt to simply and spontaneously observe lived life with a minimum of intervention. Filmmakers who worked i...

An aftermovie is an atmosphere report of all the highlights of your event. Nice for the participants to relive your event! And the people ...

The length of shots is an important consideration that can greatly affect a film. The purpose of editing any given scene is to create a re...

Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audienc...

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

Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over footage, frame by frame, for use in live-action and animated films. O...

1 6 mm film is a historically popular and economical gauge of film. 16 mm refers to the width of the film; other common film gauges includ...

Philiwood on Strijp "At that time, the 'silent' film was rampant, with clarifiers and orchestras to provide the image with ...

While some experimental films have been distributed through mainstream channels or even made within commercial studios, the vast majority ...

 '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...