Film is a term that encompasses Sid And Nancy Movie individual motion pictures, the field of Sid And Nancy Movie film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special Sid And Nancy Movie effects.
Films are cultural artifacts created Sid And Nancy Movie by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them. Film is considered to be Loew S Movie Theater an important art form, a source Sid And Nancy Movie of popular entertainment and a powerful method for educating � or indoctrinating � citizens. The visual elements of cinema gives motion pictures a universal power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles that Sid And Nancy Movie translate the dialogue.
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The origin of Sid And Nancy Movie the name Sid And Nancy Movie "film" comes from Sid And Nancy Movie the Sid And Nancy Movie fact that photographic film (also called film stock) had historically been the primary medium for recording and displaying motion Sid And Nancy Movie pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion picture, Sid And Nancy Movie including picture, picture show, photo-play, flick, and most commonly, movie. Additional terms for the field in general include the big screen, Sid And Nancy Movie the silver Sid And Nancy Movie screen, the cinema, and the movies.In the Sid And Nancy Movie 1860s, mechanisms for producing artificially created, two-dimensional images in motion were demonstrated with devices such as the zoetrope and the praxinoscope. These machines Sid And Nancy Movie were outgrowths of simple optical devices (such Sid And Nancy Movie as Sid And Nancy Movie magic lanterns) and would display sequences of still pictures at sufficient speed for the images on the pictures to appear to be moving, a phenomenon called persistence of vision. Naturally, the images needed to be carefully designed to Rialto Movie Theater achieve Sid And Nancy Movie the desired effect � and Sid And Nancy Movie the underlying principle became the basis for the development of film Sid And Nancy Movie animation.
A frame from Roundhay Garden Scene, the Sid And Nancy Movie world's earliest Sid And Nancy Movie film, by Louis Le Prince, 1888
With Sid And Nancy Movie the development of celluloid film for still photography, it became possible to directly capture objects in motion in real time. Early versions of the technology sometimes required a person to Sid And Nancy Movie look into a viewing machine to see the pictures which were separate paper prints attached to a drum turned by a handcrank. The pictures were shown at a variable speed of about 5 to 10 pictures per second depending on how rapidly the Sid And Nancy Movie crank was turned. Some of these machines were coin operated. By the 1880s, the development of the Sid And Nancy Movie motion picture camera allowed the individual component images to be captured and stored on a single reel, and led quickly Sid And Nancy Movie to the Sid And Nancy Movie development Home Theater Movie Screen of a motion picture projector to shine light through the processed and printed film and magnify these "moving picture shows" onto a screen Sid And Nancy Movie for an Sid And Nancy Movie entire audience. These Sid And Nancy Movie reels, so exhibited, came to be known as "motion pictures". Early motion pictures were static shots that showed an event or action with no Sid And Nancy Movie editing or other Sid And Nancy Movie cinematic techniques.
Ignoring Dickson's early sound Sid And Nancy Movie experiments (1894), commercial motion pictures were purely visual art through the late 19th century, but these innovative Sid And Nancy Movie silent films had gained a hold on the public imagination. Around the turn of the twentieth century, films began developing a narrative Sid And Nancy Movie structure by stringing scenes Sid And Nancy Movie together to tell narratives. The scenes were later broken up into multiple Sid And Nancy Movie shots of varying sizes and angles. Other techniques such as camera movement were realized as Sid And Nancy Movie effective ways to portray a story on film. Rather than leave the audience in silence, theater owners would hire a pianist or organist Sid And Nancy Movie or a full orchestra Sid And Nancy Movie to Sid And Nancy Movie play music fitting the mood of Sid And Nancy Movie the film at any Sid And Nancy Movie given moment. By the early Sid And Nancy Movie 1920s, most films came with a prepared list of sheet music for this purpose, with complete film scores Sid And Nancy Movie being composed for major productions.
A shot from Georges Melies Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902), an early narrative film.
The rise of European cinema Sid And Nancy Movie was interrupted by the breakout Sid And Nancy Movie of World War I while the film industry in United States flourished with the rise of Hollywood. However in the 1920s, European filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, F. Sid And Nancy Movie W. Murnau, and Sid And Nancy Movie Fritz Lang, along with American innovator D. W. Griffith and the contributions of Charles Chaplin, Buster Sid And Nancy Movie Keaton and others, continued to advance the medium. In the 1920s, Sid And Nancy Movie new technology allowed filmmakers to attach to each film a soundtrack of Sid And Nancy Movie speech, Sid And Nancy Movie music Sid And Nancy Movie and sound effects synchronized with the action on the screen. These sound films were initially distinguished by calling them "talking pictures", or talkies.
The next Sid And Nancy Movie major step in the development of Sid And Nancy Movie cinema was the introduction Sid And Nancy Movie of Sid And Nancy Movie so-called "natural" color. While the Sid And Nancy Movie addition of sound quickly eclipsed silent film and theater musicians, color was adopted more gradually as methods evolved making it more practical and cost effective to produce "natural color" films. The public was relatively indifferent to color photography as Sid And Nancy Movie opposed to black-and-white,[citation needed] but as color processes improved Sid And Nancy Movie and became as Sid And Nancy Movie affordable as black-and-white film, more and more movies were filmed in color after Sid And Nancy Movie the Sid And Nancy Movie end of World War II, as the industry in America came to view color as Sid And Nancy Movie essential to attracting audiences in its competition with television, which remained a black-and-white medium until the mid-1960s. By Sid And Nancy Movie the end of the 1960s, col
Since the decline of the studio system in the 1960s, the succeeding decades saw changes in the production and style of film. New Hollywood, French New Wave and the Sid And Nancy Movie rise Sid And Nancy Movie of film school educated Sid And Nancy Movie independent filmmakers were all part of the changes the medium experienced in the latter half of the 20th century. Sid And Nancy Movie Digital technology Sid And Nancy Movie has been the driving force in change Sid And Nancy Movie throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century.
Theory
Main Sid And Nancy Movie article: Film theory
Film theory seeks to develop concise and systematic concepts that apply to the study of film Sid And Nancy Movie as art. It was started by Sid And Nancy Movie Ricciotto Canudo's The Birth of the Sixth Art. Formalist film theory, led by Rudolf Arnheim, Bela Balazs, and Siegfried Kracauer, emphasized how film differed from reality, and thus Sid And Nancy Movie could be considered Sid And Nancy Movie a valid fine art. Sid And Nancy Movie Andre Bazin reacted against this theory Sid And Nancy Movie by arguing that film's artistic essence Sid And Nancy Movie lay in its ability to mechanically Sid And Nancy Movie reproduce reality not in its differences from reality, and this gave rise to realist theory. More recent analysis spurred by Lacan's psychoanalysis and Ferdinand de Saussure's semiotics among other things has given rise to psychoanalytical film Sid And Nancy Movie theory, structuralist film theory, feminist film Sid And Nancy Movie theory and others.
Criticism
Main article: Film Sid And Nancy Movie criticism
Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of Sid And Nancy Movie films. In general, these works can be divided into two categories: academic criticism by film scholars and journalistic film criticism that Sid And Nancy Movie appears regularly in newspapers and other media.
Film critics working for newspapers, magazines, and broadcast media mainly review new releases. Normally they only see any given film once and have only a day or two to formulate opinions. Despite this, critics have an important impact on films, especially those of certain genres. Sid And Nancy Movie Mass marketed action, horror, and comedy Sid And Nancy Movie films tend not to be greatly Sid And Nancy Movie affected by a critic's overall judgment of a film. Sid And Nancy Movie The plot summary and description Sid And Nancy Movie of a film that Sid And Nancy Movie makes up the majority of any film review can still have an important impact on whether people decide to see a film. For prestige films such as most dramas, Sid And Nancy Movie the influence of reviews is extremely important. Aaa Movie Tickets Poor reviews will often Sid And Nancy Movie doom a film to obscurity and financial loss.
The impact of a reviewer on a given film's box office Sid And Nancy Movie performance is a matter of debate. Some claim that movie marketing is now so intense and well financed Sid And Nancy Movie that reviewers cannot make an impact against it. However, the cataclysmic failure of some Sid And Nancy Movie heavily-promoted movies which were harshly reviewed, as well as the unexpected success of critically Sid And Nancy Movie praised independent movies indicates that extreme critical reactions Sid And Nancy Movie can Sid And Nancy Movie have considerable influence. Others note that positive film reviews have been shown to spark interest in little-known films. Conversely, there have been several films in which film companies have so little confidence that they refuse Sid And Nancy Movie to give reviewers an advanced viewing to avoid widespread panning of the film. However, this usually backfires as reviewers are wise to the tactic and warn the public that Sid And Nancy Movie the film Sid And Nancy Movie may not Sid And Nancy Movie be worth seeing and the films often do poorly as a result.
It Sid And Nancy Movie is argued that journalist Sid And Nancy Movie film critics should only be known as film reviewers, and true film critics are those who take a more academic approach to films. This line of work is more often known Sid And Nancy Movie as film theory or film studies. These film critics attempt Sid And Nancy Movie to come to understand how film and filming techniques work, and what effect they have on people. Rather than having their works published in newspapers or Sid And Nancy Movie appear on television, their articles are published in scholarly journals, or sometimes in up-market magazines. They also tend to be affiliated with colleges or universities.
Industry
Main article: Sid And Nancy Movie Film industry
The making and showing of motion pictures became a source of profit almost as soon as Sid And Nancy Movie the process was invented. Upon seeing how successful their new invention, and its product, was in their native France, the Lumieres quickly set about touring the Continent Sid And Nancy Movie to exhibit Sid And Nancy Movie the first Sid And Nancy Movie films privately to royalty and publicly to Sid And Nancy Movie the masses. In each country, they would normally add Sid And Nancy Movie new, local scenes to their catalogue and, quickly enough, found local entrepreneurs in the various countries of Europe to buy their equipment and photograph, export, import and screen additional product commercially. The Oberammergau Passion Play of 1898[citation needed] was the first commercial motion picture ever produced. Other pictures soon followed, and motion Sid And Nancy Movie pictures became a separate industry that overshadowed the vaudeville world. Dedicated theaters and Sid And Nancy Movie companies formed specifically to produce and distribute Sid And Nancy Movie films, while motion picture actors became Sid And Nancy Movie major celebrities and commanded huge fees for their Sid And Nancy Movie performances. Already by 1917, Charlie Chaplin had a contract that Sid And Nancy Movie called for an annual salary of one million dollars.
In the United States today, much of the film industry is centered around Hollywood. Other regional centers exist in many parts of the world, such as Mumbai-centered Bollywood, the Indian film industry's Hindi cinema which produces the largest Sid And Nancy Movie number of films in the world.[1] Whether the ten thousand-plus feature length films a year Sid And Nancy Movie produced by the Valley pornographic film industry should qualify Sid And Nancy Movie for Sid And Nancy Movie this Sid And Nancy Movie title is the source of some debate.[citation needed] Though Sid And Nancy Movie the expense involved in making movies has led cinema production to concentrate under the auspices of movie studios, recent advances in affordable film Sid And Nancy Movie making equipment have allowed independent film productions to flourish.
Profit is a key force in Sid And Nancy Movie the industry, due to Sid And Nancy Movie the costly Sid And Nancy Movie and risky nature of filmmaking; many films have large cost overruns, a notorious example being Kevin Costner's Waterworld. Yet many filmmakers strive to create works of lasting social significance. The Academy Awards (also known as "the Oscars") are the Sid And Nancy Movie most prominent film awards Sid And Nancy Movie in the United States, providing recognition each year to films, Sid And Nancy Movie ostensibly based on their Sid And Nancy Movie artistic merits.
There is also a Sid And Nancy Movie large industry for educational and Sid And Nancy Movie instructional films made Sid And Nancy Movie in Sid And Nancy Movie lieu of or Sid And Nancy Movie in addition to lectures and texts.
Preview
A preview Sid And Nancy Movie performance refers to a Sid And Nancy Movie showing of a movie to a select Sid And Nancy Movie audience, usually for the purposes of Hoyts Movie Times corporate promotions, before the public film premiere itself. Previews are sometimes used to judge audience reaction, which if unexpectedly negative, may result in recutting or even refilming certain sections. (cf Audience response.)
Trailer
Main article: Trailer (film)
Trailers or previews are film advertisements Sid And Nancy Movie for Sid And Nancy Movie films that will be Sid And Nancy Movie exhibited in the future at a cinema, on whose screen they are shown. The term "trailer" comes from their having originally been shown at the end of a film Sid And Nancy Movie programme. That practice did not last long, because patrons tended Sid And Nancy Movie to leave the theater after Sid And Nancy Movie the films ended, but the name has stuck. Trailers are now shown before the film (or the Sid And Nancy Movie A movie in a double feature program) begins.
The nature of the film determines the size and type of crew required during filmmaking. Many Hollywood Sid And Nancy Movie adventure films need computer generated imagery (CGI), created Sid And Nancy Movie by dozens of 3D modellers, animators, rotoscopers and compositors. However, a Sid And Nancy Movie low-budget, independent film may be made with Sid And Nancy Movie a skeleton crew, often paid very little. Also, an open source film may be Sid And Nancy Movie produced through open, collaborative processes. Filmmaking takes place all over the world using different technologies, styles of acting and Sid And Nancy Movie genre, and is produced in a variety of economic contexts that range from state-sponsored documentary in China to profit-oriented movie making within the American studio system.
This production cycle typically takes three years. The first year is taken up with development. The second year comprises preproduction and production. The third year, post-production and distribution.
Crew
Main article: Film crew
A film crew is a group of people hired by a Sid And Nancy Movie film company, employed during the "production" Sid And Nancy Movie or Sid And Nancy Movie "photography" phase, for the Sid And Nancy Movie purpose of Sid And Nancy Movie producing a film or motion picture. Crew are Sid And Nancy Movie distinguished from cast, the actors who appear in front of the camera or provide voices for Sid And Nancy Movie characters in the film. The crew interacts with but is also distinct Sid And Nancy Movie from the production Sid And Nancy Movie staff, consisting of producers, managers, company representatives, their assistants, and those whose primary responsibility falls in pre-production or post-production phases, such as writers and editors. Communication between production and crew generally passes through Sid And Nancy Movie the director and his/her staff of assistants. Medium-to-large crews are generally divided into departments with well defined hierarchies and standards for interaction and cooperation between the departments. Other than acting, the crew handles Sid And Nancy Movie everything in the photography phase: props and costumes, shooting, sound, electrics (i.e., lights), sets, and production special effects. Caterers (known in the film industry as "craft services") are usually not considered part of the crew.
Technology
Film stock consists of transparent Sid And Nancy Movie celluloid, acetate, or polyester base coated with Sid And Nancy Movie an emulsion containing light-sensitive chemicals. Cellulose nitrate was the first type of film base used to record motion pictures, but due to its flammability was Sid And Nancy Movie eventually replaced Sid And Nancy Movie by safer materials. Stock widths and the Sid And Nancy Movie film format for images on the reel have had a Sid And Nancy Movie rich history, though most large commercial films are Sid And Nancy Movie still shot on (and distributed to theaters) as 35 mm prints.
Originally moving picture film was shot and projected at Sid And Nancy Movie various Sid And Nancy Movie speeds using hand-cranked Sid And Nancy Movie cameras and projectors; though 1000 frames per minute (16? frame/s) is generally cited as a standard Sid And Nancy Movie silent speed, research indicates most films Rialto Movie Theater Coutenay Bc were shot between 16 frame/s and Sid And Nancy Movie 23 frame/s and Sid And Nancy Movie projected from 18 Sid And Nancy Movie frame/s on Sid And Nancy Movie up (often reels included instructions on how fast each scene should be shown) [1]. When sound film was introduced in the late 1920s, a constant speed was required for the sound head. 24 frames per second was chosen Sid And Nancy Movie because it was the Sid And Nancy Movie slowest (and thus cheapest) speed which Sid And Nancy Movie allowed for sufficient sound quality. Improvements since the late 19th century include the mechanization Sid And Nancy Movie of cameras Sid And Nancy Movie � allowing them to record at a consistent speed, quiet camera design � allowing sound recorded on-set to be usable without Sid And Nancy Movie requiring large "blimps" to encase the Sid And Nancy Movie camera, Sid And Nancy Movie the invention of more Sid And Nancy Movie sophisticated filmstocks and lenses, allowing Sid And Nancy Movie directors to Sid And Nancy Movie film in increasingly dim conditions, and the development Sid And Nancy Movie of synchronized sound, allowing sound to be recorded at exactly the same Sid And Nancy Movie speed as its corresponding Sid And Nancy Movie action. The soundtrack can be recorded separately from shooting the film, Sid And Nancy Movie but for live-action pictures many parts of the soundtrack are usually recorded simultaneously.
As a Sid And Nancy Movie medium, film is Sid And Nancy Movie not limited Sid And Nancy Movie to Sid And Nancy Movie motion pictures, since the technology developed as Sid And Nancy Movie the basis for photography. It can be used to present a progressive sequence of Sid And Nancy Movie still images in the form Sid And Nancy Movie of a slideshow. Film has also been incorporated into multimedia presentations, and often has importance as primary historical documentation. However, historic films have problems in terms of preservation and storage, and the motion picture industry Sid And Nancy Movie is exploring many alternatives. Most Sid And Nancy Movie movies on cellulose nitrate base have been copied onto modern safety films. Some studios save color films through the use Sid And Nancy Movie of separation masters � three B&W negatives each exposed through red, Sid And Nancy Movie green, or blue filters (essentially a reverse of the Technicolor process). Digital methods have also been used to restore films, although their continued obsolescence cycle makes them Sid And Nancy Movie (as of 2006) a poor choice Sid And Nancy Movie for long-term preservation. Film preservation of decaying film stock is a matter of concern to both film historians and archivists, and to companies interested in preserving their existing products in order to make them available to future generations (and thereby Sid And Nancy Movie increase revenue). Preservation is generally Sid And Nancy Movie a Sid And Nancy Movie higher-concern for nitrate and single-strip color films, due to their high decay Sid And Nancy Movie rates; black and white Sid And Nancy Movie films Sid And Nancy Movie on safety bases and color Sid And Nancy Movie films preserved Sid And Nancy Movie on Technicolor imbibition prints tend to Sid And Nancy Movie keep up much better, assuming proper handling and storage.
Some films in Sid And Nancy Movie recent decades have been recorded using analog video technology similar to that used in television production. Modern digital video cameras and digital projectors are gaining ground as well. These approaches are Sid And Nancy Movie extremely beneficial to moviemakers, Sid And Nancy Movie especially because footage can be evaluated Sid And Nancy Movie and edited without waiting for the film stock to be processed. Yet the migration is gradual, and as of 2005 most major motion pictures are still recorded on film.
Independent
Main article: Independent film
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Independent filmmaking often takes place outside of Hollywood, or other major studio systems. An independent film (or indie film) is a film initially produced without financing or distribution from a major movie studio. Creative, business, and technological reasons have all contributed to the growth of the indie film scene in the late 20th and early 21st century.
On the Sid And Nancy Movie business side, the costs of big-budget studio films also leads to conservative choices in cast and crew. Sid And Nancy Movie There is a trend in Hollywood Sid And Nancy Movie towards co-financing (over two-thirds of the films put out by Warner Bros. Sid And Nancy Movie in 2000 were joint ventures, up from 10% in 1987).[2] A hopeful director is almost never given the opportunity to get a job on Hentai Movie Downloads a big-budget studio film unless he or she has significant Sid And Nancy Movie industry experience in film Sid And Nancy Movie or television. Also, Sid And Nancy Movie the studios rarely Sid And Nancy Movie produce films with unknown actors, particularly in lead roles.
Before the advent of digital Sid And Nancy Movie alternatives, the cost of professional Sid And Nancy Movie film equipment and Sid And Nancy Movie stock was also a hurdle to being able to Sid And Nancy Movie produce, direct, or star in a traditional studio film. The cost of 35 mm film is outpacing inflation: in 2002 alone, film negative costs were up 23%, according to Variety.[2].
But the advent of consumer camcorders in 1985, and more importantly, the arrival of high-resolution digital video in the early 1990s, have lowered the technology barrier to Sid And Nancy Movie movie production significantly. Both production and post-production costs have been significantly lowered; today, the Sid And Nancy Movie hardware and software Sid And Nancy Movie for post-production can be installed in a commodity-based personal computer. Technologies such Sid And Nancy Movie as DVDs, FireWire connections and non-linear editing system pro-level software like Adobe Premiere Pro, Sony Sid And Nancy Movie Vegas and Apple's Final Cut Pro, and Sid And Nancy Movie consumer level software such as Apple's Sid And Nancy Movie Final Cut Express and iMovie make movie-making relatively inexpensive.
Since Sid And Nancy Movie the introduction of DV technology, the means of production have become more democratized. Filmmakers can conceivably shoot and edit a movie, create and edit the sound and music, and mix the final cut on a home computer. However, while the means of production may be democratized, financing, distribution, and marketing remain difficult to accomplish outside the Sid And Nancy Movie traditional system. Most independent filmmakers rely on film festivals to get their films noticed and sold for distribution. Sid And Nancy Movie The arrival Sid And Nancy Movie of internet-based video outlets Sid And Nancy Movie such as YouTube and Sid And Nancy Movie Veoh has further Sid And Nancy Movie changed the Sid And Nancy Movie film Sid And Nancy Movie making landscape in ways that are still to be determined.
Open content film
Main article: Open content film
An open content film is Sid And Nancy Movie much like Sid And Nancy Movie an independent film, Sid And Nancy Movie but it is produced through open collaborations; its source material is available under a Sid And Nancy Movie license which is permissive Sid And Nancy Movie enough to allow other parties to create fan fiction or derivative works, than a traditional copyright. Like independent filmmaking, open Sid And Nancy Movie source filmmaking takes place outside of Hollywood, or other major studio systems.
Fan film
Main article: Fan film
A fan film is a film or video inspired by a film, television program, comic book or a similar source, created by fans Sid And Nancy Movie rather than by the Sid And Nancy Movie source's copyright holders or creators. Fan filmmakers have traditionally been amateurs, but some of the Sid And Nancy Movie more notable films have actually been produced by professional filmmakers as film school class projects or as demonstration reels. Fan films vary tremendously in length, from short faux-teaser trailers Sid And Nancy Movie for non-existent motion Sid And Nancy Movie pictures to rarer full-length motion pictures
Animation Sid And Nancy Movie is the technique in which each frame of a film is produced Sid And Nancy Movie individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a Sid And Nancy Movie drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model unit (see Sid And Nancy Movie claymation and stop motion), and Sid And Nancy Movie then photographing the result with a special animation camera. When the frames Sid And Nancy Movie are strung together and the resulting film is viewed at a speed of 16 or more frames per second, there is an illusion of continuous movement (due to the persistence Sid And Nancy Movie of vision). Generating such a film Sid And Nancy Movie is very labour intensive Sid And Nancy Movie and tedious, though the development of computer animation has greatly sped up the process.
File formats Watch The Movie Shortbus Online like GIF, QuickTime, Shockwave and Flash allow animation to be viewed on Sid And Nancy Movie a computer Sid And Nancy Movie or over the Internet.
Because animation is very time-consuming and often very expensive to produce, the majority of animation for TV and movies comes from professional animation studios. However, the field of independent animation has existed at least since the 1950s, with animation being produced by independent studios (and sometimes by a single Sid And Nancy Movie person). Several independent animation producers have gone on to enter the professional animation industry.
Limited animation is a way of increasing production and decreasing costs of animation by using "short cuts" in the animation process. This method was pioneered by UPA and popularized by Frankenstein Movie With Gene Wilder Hanna-Barbera, and adapted by other Sid And Nancy Movie studios as cartoons moved from movie Sid And Nancy Movie theaters to television.[3]
Although most animation studios are now using digital technologies in Sid And Nancy Movie their productions, there is a specific style of animation that depends on film. Cameraless animation, made Sid And Nancy Movie famous by moviemakers like Norman McLaren, Len Sid And Nancy Movie Lye and Stan Brakhage, is Sid And Nancy Movie painted and drawn directly Sid And Nancy Movie onto pieces of film, and then run through a projector.
Venues
When it Sid And Nancy Movie is initially produced, a feature film is Sid And Nancy Movie often Sid And Nancy Movie shown to audiences Sid And Nancy Movie in a movie theater or cinema. The first theater designed exclusively for cinema opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1905.[4] Thousands of such theaters were built or Sid And Nancy Movie converted from existing facilities within a few years.[5] In the Sid And Nancy Movie United States, Sid And Nancy Movie these theaters came to be Sid And Nancy Movie known as nickelodeons, because admission typically cost a nickel (five Sid And Nancy Movie cents).
Typically, one film is the featured presentation (or feature film). Before the 1970s, there were "double features"; typically, a high quality "A picture" rented by an independent theater for a lump sum, and a "B picture" of lower quality rented for Sid And Nancy Movie a percentage of the gross receipts. Today, the bulk of the material shown before the feature film consists Sid And Nancy Movie of previews for upcoming movies and paid advertisements (also Sid And Nancy Movie known as trailers or "The Twenty").
Historically, all mass marketed feature films were made to be shown Sid And Nancy Movie in movie theaters. The development of television has allowed films to be broadcast to larger audiences, usually after Sid And Nancy Movie the film is no longer being shown in theaters. Recording Sid And Nancy Movie technology has also Sid And Nancy Movie enabled consumers to rent or buy copies of films on VHS or DVD (and the Sid And Nancy Movie older formats of Sid And Nancy Movie laserdisc, VCD and Sid And Nancy Movie SelectaVision � see also videodisc), and Internet downloads may be available and have started to become revenue sources for the Sid And Nancy Movie film companies. Some Sid And Nancy Movie films Sid And Nancy Movie are now made specifically for these Sid And Nancy Movie other venues, Sid And Nancy Movie being released as made-for-TV movies or direct-to-video movies. The production values on these Sid And Nancy Movie films are often considered to be of inferior quality compared to theatrical releases Sid And Nancy Movie in similar genres, Sid And Nancy Movie and indeed, some films that are Sid And Nancy Movie rejected by their own studios upon completion are distributed through Sid And Nancy Movie these markets.
The movie theater pays an average of about 50-55% of its ticket sales to the movie studio, as film rental fees.[6] The Sid And Nancy Movie actual percentage Sid And Nancy Movie starts with a number higher than that, and decreases as the duration of a film's Sid And Nancy Movie showing continues, Sid And Nancy Movie as an incentive to theaters to Sid And Nancy Movie keep movies in the theater longer. However, today's barrage of highly marketed Sid And Nancy Movie movies ensures that most movies Sid And Nancy Movie are shown in first-run theaters for less than 8 weeks. There are a few movies every year that Sid And Nancy Movie defy this Sid And Nancy Movie rule, often limited-release movies that start in only a few theaters and actually Sid And Nancy Movie grow their Sid And Nancy Movie theater count through good word-of-mouth and reviews. According to a 2000 study Sid And Nancy Movie by ABN AMRO, Sid And Nancy Movie about 26% of Hollywood movie studios' worldwide income came from box office Sid And Nancy Movie ticket sales; 46% came from VHS and DVD sales to consumers; and 28% came from television (broadcast, cable, and pay-per-view).[6]
Future state
While motion Sid And Nancy Movie picture films have been around for more than a century, film is still a relative newcomer Sid And Nancy Movie in the pantheon of fine arts. In the 1950s, when television became Sid And Nancy Movie widely available, industry Sid And Nancy Movie analysts predicted the demise of local movie theaters. Despite competition from television's increasing technological Sid And Nancy Movie sophistication over the 1960s and 1970s, such as the development of Sid And Nancy Movie color television and Sid And Nancy Movie large screens, motion Sid And Nancy Movie picture cinemas continued. In the 1980s, when the widespread availability of inexpensive Sid And Nancy Movie videocassette recorders enabled people to select films for home viewing, industry analysts again wrongly predicted the death of the local cinemas.
In the 1990s and 2000s the development of digital DVD players, home theater amplification systems with surround sound and subwoofers, and large LCD or Sid And Nancy Movie plasma screens enabled people to select and view films at home with Sid And Nancy Movie greatly improved audio and visual reproduction. These new technologies provided audio and visual that in the past only local Sid And Nancy Movie cinemas had been able to provide: a large, clear widescreen presentation Sid And Nancy Movie of a film with a full-range, high-quality multi-speaker sound system. Once again industry analysts Sid And Nancy Movie predicted the demise Sid And Nancy Movie of the local Sid And Nancy Movie cinema. Local cinemas will be Sid And Nancy Movie changing Sid And Nancy Movie in the 2000s and moving towards digital screens, a new approach which will allow for easier and quicker distribution of films (via satellite or hard disks), a development Sid And Nancy Movie which may give Sid And Nancy Movie local theaters a reprieve from Sid And Nancy Movie their predicted demise.
The cinema now faces a new challenge from home Sid And Nancy Movie video by the likes of a new DVD format Blu-ray, which can provide full HD 1080p video playback at near cinema quality. Video formats are gradually catching up with the resolutions and quality that film offers, 1080p in Blu-ray offers Sid And Nancy Movie a pixel resolution of 1920?1080 a leap from the DVD offering Sid And Nancy Movie of 720?480 and the paltry 330?480 offered by the first home Sid And Nancy Movie video standard VHS. The maximum resolutions that film currently Sid And Nancy Movie offers are 2485?2970 or 1420?3390, UHD, a future digital video format, will offer a massive resolution Sid And Nancy Movie of 7680?4320, surpassing all current Sid And Nancy Movie film resolutions. The only viable competitor to these new innovations is IMAX which can play film content at Sid And Nancy Movie an extreme 10000?7000 resolution.
Despite the rise of all new technologies, the development of the home video market and a surge of online piracy, 2007 was a record year in film that showed the highest ever box-office Sid And Nancy Movie grosses. Many expected film to Sid And Nancy Movie suffer as a result of the effects listed above but it has flourished, strengthening film studio expectations for the Sid And Nancy Movie future. |
