Film | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-19

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00:03:10 1 History
00:03:19 1.1 Preceding technologies
00:06:17 1.2 First motion pictures
00:08:03 1.3 Early evolution
00:09:48 1.4 Sound
00:10:29 1.5 Colour
00:11:38 1.6 1950s: growing influence of television
00:12:55 1.7 1960s and later
00:13:42 2 Film theory
00:14:55 2.1 Language
00:16:23 2.2 Montage
00:17:14 2.3 Film criticism
00:19:56 3 Industry
00:22:39 4 Associated fields
00:23:37 5 Terminology
00:32:06 5.1 Preview
00:32:53 5.2 Trailer and teaser
00:34:35 6 Education and propaganda
00:35:30 7 Production
00:36:55 7.1 Crew
00:38:12 7.2 Technology
00:41:53 7.3 Independent
00:44:25 7.4 Open content film
00:44:57 7.5 Fan film
00:45:36 8 Distribution
00:46:34 9 Animation
00:48:26 10 See also



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A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images. (See the glossary of motion picture terms.)
This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed in rapid succession. The process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry. A film is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects.
The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art of filmmaking itself. The contemporary definition of cinema is the art of simulating experiences to communicate ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty or atmosphere by the means of recorded or programmed moving images along with other sensory stimulations.Films were originally recorded onto plastic film through a photochemical process and then shown through a movie projector onto a large screen. Contemporary films are now often fully digital through the entire process of production, distribution, and exhibition, while films recorded in a photochemical form traditionally included an analogous optical soundtrack (a graphic recording of the spoken words, music and other sounds that accompany the images which runs along a portion of the film exclusively reserved for it, and is not projected).
Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures. They reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them. Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment, and a powerful medium for educating—or indoctrinating—citizens. The visual basis of film gives it a universal power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions through the use of dubbing or subtitles to translate the dialog into other languages.
The individual images that make up a film are called frames. In the projection of traditional celluloid films, a rotating shutter causes intervals of darkness as each frame, in turn, is moved into position to be projected, but the viewer does not notice the interruptions because of an effect known as persistence of vision, whereby the eye retains a visual image for a fraction of a second after its source disappears. The perception of motion is due to a psychological effect called the phi phenomenon.
The name "film" originates from the fact that photographic film (also called film stock) has historically been the medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion-picture, including picture, picture show, moving picture, photoplay, and flick. The most common term in the United States is movie, while in Europe film is preferred. Common terms for the field in general include the big screen, the silver screen, the movies, and cinema; the last of these is commonly used, as an overarching term, in scholarly texts and critical essays. In early years, the word she ...