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produced by recording images from the The Golden Compass Movie Times world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects. Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, The Golden Compass Movie Times affect them. Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment and a powerful method for educating � The Golden Compass Movie Times or indoctrinating � citizens. The visual elements of cinema The Golden Compass Movie Times gives motion pictures a universal power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles that The Golden Compass Movie Times translate the dialogue. Traditional films are made up of a series of The Golden Compass Movie Times individual images called frames. When these images are shown rapidly in succession, a viewer has the The Golden Compass Movie Times illusion The Golden Compass Movie Times that motion is occurring. The viewer cannot see the flickering between Jesus Christ Superstar Movie Memorabilia frames due to an effect known as persistence of vision, whereby the eye retains a The The Golden Compass Movie Times origin The Golden Compass Movie Times of the name The Golden Compass Movie Times "film" comes from the fact that photographic film (also called film stock) had historically The Golden Compass Movie Times been the primary medium for recording and displaying The Golden Compass Movie Times motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an

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individual motion The Golden Compass Movie Times picture, including picture, picture show, The Golden Compass Movie Times photo-play, flick, and most commonly, The Golden Compass Movie Times movie. Additional The Golden Compass Movie Times terms The Golden Compass Movie Times for The Golden Compass Movie Times the field in general include the big screen, The Golden Compass Movie Times the silver screen, The Golden Compass Movie Times the cinema, and the movies.In the 1860s, The Golden Compass Movie Times mechanisms for producing artificially created, two-dimensional The Golden Compass Movie Times images in motion The Golden Compass Movie Times were demonstrated with devices such as the zoetrope and the praxinoscope. These machines were outgrowths of simple optical devices (such as 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 Golden Compass Movie Times the images needed to be carefully designed to achieve the desired effect � and the underlying principle became the basis The Golden Compass Movie Times for the The Golden Compass Movie Times development of film animation. A frame from Roundhay Garden Scene, the world's earliest film, by The Golden Compass Movie Times Louis Le Prince, 1888 With The Golden Compass Movie Times the development of celluloid film for still The Golden Compass Movie Times photography, it became possible to directly capture objects in motion in real

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time. Early versions of the technology sometimes The Golden Compass Movie Times required a person to look into a viewing machine to see the pictures which were separate paper prints attached to a The Golden Compass Movie Times drum turned by a handcrank. The The Golden Compass Movie Times pictures were shown at a variable speed of about 5 to 10 pictures per second depending on The Golden Compass Movie Times how rapidly the crank was turned. Some of these machines were coin The Golden Compass Movie Times operated. By the 1880s, the development of the motion picture The Golden Compass Movie Times camera allowed the individual The Golden Compass Movie Times component images to be captured and The Golden Compass Movie Times stored on a single reel, and led quickly to the development of a motion picture projector to shine light through the processed and printed film and magnify these "moving picture The Golden Compass Movie Times shows" onto a screen for The Golden Compass Movie Times an entire audience. These The Golden Compass Movie Times reels, so exhibited, came to be The Golden Compass Movie Times known as The Golden Compass Movie Times "motion pictures". Early motion pictures were The Golden Compass Movie Times static shots The Golden Compass Movie Times that The Golden Compass Movie Times showed an event or action with no editing or other cinematic techniques. Ignoring Dickson's early sound experiments (1894), commercial motion pictures were purely visual art through the late 19th The Golden Compass Movie Times century, The Golden Compass Movie Times but these The Golden Compass Movie Times innovative silent films had The Golden Compass Movie Times gained a hold on the The Golden Compass Movie Times public imagination. Around the turn of The Golden Compass Movie Times the twentieth century, The Golden Compass Movie Times films began developing a narrative structure by stringing scenes together to tell narratives. The scenes were The Golden Compass Movie Times later broken up into multiple shots of varying sizes and angles. Other techniques such as camera movement The Golden Compass Movie Times were realized as effective ways to portray a story on film. Rather than leave the audience The Golden Compass Movie Times in silence, theater owners would

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hire a pianist or organist or a full orchestra to play music fitting the mood of the film at any given moment. By the early 1920s, most The Golden Compass Movie Times films came with a prepared list of sheet music for this purpose, The Golden Compass Movie Times with complete film The Golden Compass Movie Times scores The Golden Compass Movie Times being composed for major productions. A shot from The Golden Compass Movie Times Georges Melies Le Voyage dans The Golden Compass Movie Times la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902), an early narrative film. The rise of European cinema was interrupted by the breakout of World War I while the film industry in United States flourished with the

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rise of Hollywood. However in The Golden Compass Movie Times the 1920s, European filmmakers such as Sergei The Golden Compass Movie Times Eisenstein, F. W. Murnau, and Fritz Lang, along with American innovator D. The Golden Compass Movie Times W. Griffith The Golden Compass Movie Times and the contributions of Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton The Golden Compass Movie Times and others, continued to advance the medium. In the The Golden Compass Movie Times 1920s, new technology allowed filmmakers to attach to The Golden Compass Movie Times each film The Golden Compass Movie Times a soundtrack of speech, music and sound effects synchronized with the action on the screen. These sound films were The Golden Compass Movie Times initially distinguished by calling them "talking pictures", or talkies. The next major step in the development of cinema was the introduction of so-called "natural" color. The Golden Compass Movie Times While the addition of sound quickly eclipsed silent film and theater musicians, color was adopted more gradually as methods The Golden Compass Movie Times evolved making it more practical and cost effective The Golden Compass Movie Times to produce "natural

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color" films. The public was relatively indifferent to color photography as The Golden Compass Movie Times opposed The Golden Compass Movie Times to black-and-white,[citation needed] but The Golden Compass Movie Times as color processes improved and became as affordable as black-and-white film, more and more movies were filmed in color after the end of The Golden Compass Movie Times World War II, The Golden Compass Movie Times as The Golden Compass Movie Times the industry in America came to view The Golden Compass Movie Times color as essential to attracting audiences in its competition The Golden Compass Movie Times with television, which remained a black-and-white medium until the mid-1960s. The Golden Compass Movie Times By Review Movie Elizabeth the end of the 1960s, col Since the decline of the studio system in the 1960s, the succeeding decades saw The Golden Compass Movie Times changes in the production

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and style of film. New Hollywood, The Golden Compass Movie Times French New Wave and the Blow Movie Posters Htm rise of film school educated independent filmmakers were all part of the changes the medium experienced in the The Golden Compass Movie Times latter The Golden Compass Movie Times half of the 20th century. Digital The Golden Compass Movie Times technology has been the driving force in change throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century. Theory Main article: Film theory Film theory seeks to develop concise and systematic concepts that apply to the study of film as art. It was started by 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 could be considered a valid fine art. Andre Bazin reacted against this theory by arguing that film's artistic essence lay in its ability to mechanically reproduce reality The Golden Compass Movie Times 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 The Golden Compass Movie Times psychoanalytical film theory, structuralist film theory, feminist film theory and others. Criticism Main article: Film criticism Film criticism is the The Golden Compass Movie Times analysis and evaluation of films. In general, these works can be divided into two categories: The Golden Compass Movie Times academic criticism by The Golden Compass Movie Times film scholars and journalistic film criticism that 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 The Golden Compass Movie Times impact on films, especially those of certain genres. Mass marketed action, horror, and comedy The Golden Compass Movie Times films tend not to be greatly affected by a critic's overall judgment of a film. The plot summary and description of a film that makes up the The Golden Compass Movie Times majority of any film review can The Golden Compass Movie Times still have an important impact on whether people decide to see a film. For prestige films such as most dramas, the influence of reviews is extremely important. Poor reviews will often doom a film to The Golden Compass Movie Times obscurity The Golden Compass Movie Times and financial loss. The impact of a reviewer on a given film's box office performance is a matter of debate. Some claim that movie marketing is The Golden Compass Movie Times now so intense and well financed that reviewers cannot Hokus Pokus Movie make an impact against it. However, the cataclysmic failure of some heavily-promoted movies The Golden Compass Movie Times which were harshly reviewed, as well as The Golden Compass Movie Times the unexpected success The Golden Compass Movie Times of The Golden Compass Movie Times critically The Golden Compass Movie Times praised independent movies indicates that extreme critical reactions can have considerable influence. Others note

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that positive film reviews have been The Golden Compass Movie Times shown The Golden Compass Movie Times to spark interest in little-known films. Conversely, there have been several films in which film companies The Golden Compass Movie Times have so little confidence that they refuse 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 The Golden Compass Movie Times warn the public that the film may not be The Golden Compass Movie Times worth seeing and the films often do poorly as a result. It is argued that journalist film critics should only The Golden Compass Movie Times be known as film reviewers, and true film The Golden Compass Movie Times critics are those who take a more academic approach to films. This line of work The Golden Compass Movie Times is more The Golden Compass Movie Times often known as film theory or film studies. These film critics attempt to The Golden Compass Movie Times come to understand how film and filming techniques work, The Golden Compass Movie Times and what effect they have on people. Rather than having their The Golden Compass Movie Times works published in newspapers or appear on The Golden Compass Movie Times television, their articles are published in scholarly journals, or sometimes in up-market magazines. They also The Golden Compass Movie Times tend The Golden Compass Movie Times to be affiliated with colleges or universities. Industry Main The Golden Compass Movie Times article: Film industry The making and showing The Golden Compass Movie Times of motion pictures became a source of profit almost as soon as the process was invented. Upon seeing how successful their The Golden Compass Movie Times new invention, and its product, was in their native France, the Lumieres quickly The Golden Compass Movie Times set about touring the Continent to exhibit the first films privately to royalty and publicly The Golden Compass Movie Times to the masses. The Golden Compass Movie Times In each country, they would normally add new, local scenes to their catalogue and, quickly The Golden Compass Movie Times enough, found local entrepreneurs in the various countries of Europe to buy their equipment and The Golden Compass Movie Times photograph, export, import and screen additional product commercially. The Oberammergau Passion Play of

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1898[citation needed] was The Golden Compass Movie Times the first commercial motion picture ever produced. Other pictures soon followed, and motion pictures became a separate industry The Golden Compass Movie Times that overshadowed the vaudeville world. Dedicated theaters and companies formed specifically to produce and distribute films, while motion picture actors became major celebrities The Golden Compass Movie Times and commanded huge fees The Golden Compass Movie Times for their performances. Already by 1917, Charlie Chaplin had a contract that The Golden Compass Movie Times called for an annual salary of one million dollars. In the United States The Golden Compass Movie Times today, The Golden Compass Movie Times much

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of The Golden Compass Movie Times 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 Medusa Movie industry's Hindi cinema which produces the largest number of films in the world.[1] Whether the ten thousand-plus feature length films a year produced by the Valley pornographic film industry should qualify for this title is the The Golden Compass Movie Times source of some debate.[citation needed] Though the expense involved in making movies has led cinema production to concentrate under the auspices of movie studios, recent The Golden Compass Movie Times advances in affordable film making equipment have allowed independent film productions to flourish. Profit is a key force in the industry, due to the costly and risky nature of filmmaking; The Golden Compass Movie Times many Sweeny Todd Depp Movie films have

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large The Golden Compass Movie Times cost overruns, a notorious example being Kevin Costner's Waterworld. Yet many filmmakers strive to create works of lasting social significance. The Golden Compass Movie Times The Academy Awards (also known as "the Oscars") are the most prominent film awards in the United States, providing recognition each year to films, ostensibly based on their artistic merits. There is also a large industry for educational and instructional films made in lieu of or Myspace Wife Boob Cheating Movie in addition to lectures The Golden Compass Movie Times and texts. Preview A preview performance refers to a showing of The Golden Compass Movie Times The Movie The Exorcist a movie to a select audience, The Golden Compass Movie Times usually for the purposes of corporate promotions, before the public The Golden Compass Movie Times film premiere itself. Previews are sometimes used to judge audience reaction, which The Golden Compass Movie Times 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 for films that will be exhibited The Golden Compass Movie Times 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 programme. That The Golden Compass Movie Times practice did not last long, because patrons tended to leave the theater after the films ended, but the name has stuck. Trailers are now shown before the film (or the A The Golden Compass Movie Times movie in a double feature program) begins. The nature of the film determines the The Golden Compass Movie Times size and type of crew required The Golden Compass Movie Times during filmmaking. Many Hollywood adventure films need computer generated imagery (CGI), created by dozens of 3D modellers, animators, rotoscopers and compositors. However, a low-budget, independent film may be made with a skeleton crew, often paid very little. The Golden Compass Movie Times Also, an open source film may be produced through open, collaborative processes. Filmmaking The Golden Compass Movie Times takes place all over the world using different The Golden Compass Movie Times technologies, styles of acting The Golden Compass Movie Times and 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 The Golden Compass Movie Times system. This production cycle typically takes three years. The first year is taken up with development. The second year comprises The Golden Compass Movie Times preproduction and production. The The Golden Compass Movie Times third year, post-production and The Golden Compass Movie Times distribution. Crew Main article: Film crew A film crew is a group of people hired by a film company, employed during The Golden Compass Movie Times the "production" or The Golden Compass Movie Times "photography" phase, for the purpose of producing a film or motion picture. Crew are distinguished from cast, the actors who appear in front of the camera or The Golden Compass Movie Times provide voices for characters in the film. The crew interacts with but is also distinct from the production staff, consisting of producers, managers, company representatives, their assistants, and those whose primary responsibility falls The Golden Compass Movie Times in pre-production or The Golden Compass Movie Times post-production phases, The Golden Compass Movie Times such as writers and editors. Communication between production and crew The Golden Compass Movie Times generally passes through the director and his/her staff of assistants. The Golden Compass Movie Times Medium-to-large crews are generally divided into departments with well defined hierarchies and standards for interaction and cooperation between The Golden Compass Movie Times the departments. Other The Golden Compass Movie Times than acting, the crew handles everything in the photography phase: The Golden Compass Movie Times props and costumes, shooting, The Golden Compass Movie Times sound, electrics (i.e., lights), sets, and production special effects. Caterers (known in

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the film industry as "craft services") are usually not considered part of the crew. Technology Film stock consists of transparent celluloid, acetate, or polyester base coated with an emulsion containing light-sensitive chemicals. Cellulose nitrate was the first type of film base The Golden Compass Movie Times used to record motion pictures, but due to its flammability was eventually The Golden Compass Movie Times replaced by safer The Golden Compass Movie Times materials. Stock widths and the film format for images on the reel have had Homemade Cumshot Movie a rich history, though most large commercial

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films are still shot on (and distributed to theaters) as 35 mm

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prints. Originally moving picture film was shot and projected at various speeds using hand-cranked cameras and projectors; though Veggie Tale Movie 1000 frames per minute (16? frame/s) is generally cited as a standard silent speed, research indicates most films were The Golden Compass Movie Times shot between 16 frame/s and 23 frame/s and projected from 18 frame/s on up (often The Golden Compass Movie Times reels included instructions on The Golden Compass Movie Times how The Golden Compass Movie Times fast each scene should The Golden Compass Movie Times 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 because it was the slowest (and thus The Golden Compass Movie Times cheapest) The Golden Compass Movie Times speed which allowed for sufficient sound quality. The Golden Compass Movie Times Improvements since the late 19th century include the mechanization of cameras � allowing them to record at a consistent speed, The Golden Compass Movie Times quiet camera design The Golden Compass Movie Times � allowing sound recorded on-set to be usable without requiring large "blimps" to encase the camera, the invention of more sophisticated filmstocks and lenses, allowing The Golden Compass Movie Times directors to film

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in increasingly dim conditions, and the development of synchronized sound, allowing sound to be recorded at exactly the same speed as its corresponding action. The soundtrack can be recorded separately from shooting the film, but for live-action pictures many parts of

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the soundtrack are usually recorded simultaneously. As a medium,

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film is not limited to motion pictures, since the technology developed as the basis for photography. It can be used to present a progressive sequence of still images in the form of a slideshow. Film has also been incorporated into multimedia presentations, and

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often has importance as primary historical documentation. However, historic films have problems in terms of preservation and storage, and the motion picture

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industry is exploring many alternatives. Most The Golden Compass Movie Times movies on cellulose nitrate base have been copied onto modern safety films. Some studios save The Golden Compass Movie Times color The Golden Compass Movie Times films through the use of separation masters � three B&W negatives each exposed through red, green, or blue filters (essentially a reverse of the Technicolor process). Digital methods The Golden Compass Movie Times have also been used to restore films, although their continued obsolescence cycle makes them (as of 2006) a poor choice for long-term preservation. Film preservation of decaying film stock is a matter The Golden Compass Movie Times of concern The Golden Compass Movie Times to both film historians and archivists, and to companies interested in preserving their existing products in The Golden Compass Movie Times order to The Golden Compass Movie Times make them available to future generations (and thereby increase revenue). Preservation The Golden Compass Movie Times is generally a higher-concern for nitrate and single-strip color The Golden Compass Movie Times films, due to their high decay rates; black and white films on safety bases and The Golden Compass Movie Times color films preserved on Technicolor imbibition prints tend to keep up much better, assuming proper The Golden Compass Movie Times handling and storage. Some films in recent decades have been recorded using analog video technology similar to that used The Golden Compass Movie Times in television The Golden Compass Movie Times production. Modern digital video cameras and digital projectors are gaining ground as well. These approaches are The Golden Compass Movie Times extremely beneficial to moviemakers, especially The Golden Compass Movie Times because footage can be evaluated and edited without waiting for the film stock to The Golden Compass Movie Times be processed. Yet the migration is The Golden Compass Movie Times gradual, and as The Golden Compass Movie Times of 2005 most The Golden Compass Movie Times major motion pictures are The Golden Compass Movie Times still recorded on film. Independent Main article: Independent The Golden Compass Movie Times film The Lumiere Brothers Independent filmmaking often takes place outside of The Golden Compass Movie Times Hollywood, or other major studio systems. An The Golden Compass Movie Times independent film (or indie film) is a film initially produced without financing or distribution The Golden Compass Movie Times from a major movie studio. Creative, business, and technological reasons have all The Golden Compass Movie Times contributed to The Golden Compass Movie Times the growth of The Golden Compass Movie Times the indie film scene in the late 20th and early 21st century. On the business side, the costs of big-budget studio films also leads to conservative choices in cast and crew. There is a trend in Hollywood towards co-financing (over two-thirds of the films put out by Warner Bros. in 2000 The Golden Compass Movie Times were joint ventures, up from 10% in The Golden Compass Movie Times 1987).[2] A hopeful director is almost The Golden Compass Movie Times never The Golden Compass Movie Times given the opportunity to get The Golden Compass Movie Times a job on The Golden Compass Movie Times a big-budget studio film unless he or she has significant industry experience in film or television. Also, the The Golden Compass Movie Times studios rarely The Golden Compass Movie Times produce films with The Golden Compass Movie Times unknown actors,

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particularly in lead The Golden Compass Movie Times roles. Before the advent of digital alternatives, the The Golden Compass Movie Times cost of professional film equipment and The Golden Compass Movie Times stock was also a hurdle to being able to produce, direct, or star in a traditional The Golden Compass Movie Times studio film. The cost of 35 mm film is outpacing inflation: in 2002 The Golden Compass Movie Times alone, film negative costs were up 23%, according to Variety.[2]. But the advent of consumer camcorders in 1985, and more importantly, the The Golden Compass Movie Times arrival of high-resolution digital The Golden Compass Movie Times video in the early 1990s, have lowered the technology barrier

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to The Golden Compass Movie Times movie production significantly. Both production The Golden Compass Movie Times and The Golden Compass Movie Times post-production costs have been significantly lowered; today, the hardware and software for post-production can be installed in a commodity-based personal The Golden Compass Movie Times computer. Technologies such as DVDs, The Golden Compass Movie Times FireWire connections and non-linear editing system pro-level software like Adobe Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas and Apple's Final Cut Pro, and consumer level software such The Golden Compass Movie Times as Apple's Final Cut Express and iMovie make movie-making relatively inexpensive. Since 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

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music, and mix the final The Golden Compass Movie Times cut on a home computer. The Golden Compass Movie Times However, while the means of production may be democratized, financing, distribution, and marketing remain difficult to accomplish outside the The Golden Compass Movie Times traditional system. Most independent filmmakers rely on film festivals to get their films noticed and sold for distribution. The arrival of internet-based The Golden Compass Movie Times video outlets such as YouTube and Veoh has further changed the film making landscape in ways that are still to be determined. Open content film Main article: Open content film An open content film is much like an independent film, but it is produced through open collaborations; its source material is available under a license which is permissive enough to allow other parties to create fan fiction or derivative works, than a traditional copyright. Like independent filmmaking, open source The Golden Compass Movie Times filmmaking takes place outside of Hollywood, or other major studio The Golden Compass Movie Times systems. Fan film Main article: Fan film A fan film is a film or video inspired by a film, television program, comic book The Golden Compass Movie Times or a similar source, created by fans rather than by the source's copyright holders or creators. Fan filmmakers have traditionally been amateurs, but some of The Golden Compass Movie Times Catheter Movie Gallery the more notable films have actually been produced by professional filmmakers as film school class projects or as demonstration The Golden Compass Movie Times reels. Fan films vary tremendously in length, from The Golden Compass Movie Times short faux-teaser trailers for non-existent motion pictures The Golden Compass Movie Times to rarer full-length motion pictures Animation is the technique in which each frame of a film is produced individually, whether generated as a computer The Golden Compass Movie Times graphic, or by The Golden Compass Movie Times photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a The Golden Compass Movie Times model unit (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result with a special animation The Golden Compass Movie Times camera. When the The Golden Compass Movie Times frames are strung The Golden Compass Movie Times together and the resulting film is viewed at a speed of The Golden Compass Movie Times 16 or more frames per second, there is an illusion of continuous The Golden Compass Movie Times movement (due to the persistence of vision). Generating such a film is very labour intensive and tedious, though the development of computer animation has greatly The Golden Compass Movie Times sped up the process. File formats like GIF, QuickTime, Shockwave and Flash allow animation to be viewed on a computer or over the Internet. Because animation is The Golden Compass Movie Times very The Golden Compass Movie Times time-consuming and often very expensive to produce, the

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majority of animation for TV and movies The Golden Compass Movie Times comes from professional animation studios. However, the The Golden Compass Movie Times field of independent animation has existed at least since the 1950s, with animation being produced by independent studios (and sometimes by a single person). The Golden Compass Movie Times Several independent animation producers have gone on The Golden Compass Movie Times to enter the The Golden Compass Movie Times professional animation industry. Limited animation is The Golden Compass Movie Times a way of increasing production and decreasing costs of The Golden Compass Movie Times animation by using "short cuts" in the The Golden Compass Movie Times animation process. The Golden Compass Movie Times This method Dvd Box Set Halloween Movie Region was pioneered The Golden Compass Movie Times by UPA and popularized by Hanna-Barbera, The Golden Compass Movie Times and adapted The Golden Compass Movie Times by other studios as cartoons moved from movie The Golden Compass Movie Times theaters The Golden Compass Movie Times to television.[3] Although The Golden Compass Movie Times most animation studios are now using The Golden Compass Movie Times digital technologies in their productions,

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film. Cameraless animation, made famous by moviemakers like Norman McLaren, Len Lye and Stan Brakhage, is painted and drawn directly onto pieces of film, and then

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run through a projector. Venues When it is initially produced, a feature The Golden Compass Movie Times film is often shown to audiences in a movie theater or cinema. The first theater designed exclusively for cinema opened The Golden Compass Movie Times in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1905.[4] Thousands of such theaters were built or converted from existing facilities within a few years.[5] In the The Golden Compass Movie Times United States, these theaters came to be known as nickelodeons, because admission typically cost a nickel (five cents). Typically, one film is the featured

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presentation (or feature film). Before The Golden Compass Movie Times the 1970s, there were The Golden Compass Movie Times "double The Golden Compass Movie Times features"; typically, a high quality "A picture" rented by an independent theater for a lump sum, and a "B picture" of lower The Golden Compass Movie Times quality rented for a percentage of the The Golden Compass Movie Times gross receipts. Today, the bulk The Golden Compass Movie Times of the material shown before the feature film The Golden Compass Movie Times consists of previews for upcoming movies and paid advertisements (also known as trailers or "The Twenty"). Historically, The Golden Compass Movie Times all mass marketed feature films were made to be shown in movie theaters. The development of television has allowed films to be broadcast to larger The Golden Compass Movie Times audiences, usually after the film is no longer being shown in theaters. Recording technology has also enabled consumers to rent or The Golden Compass Movie Times buy copies of films on VHS or DVD (and the older formats The Golden Compass Movie Times of laserdisc, VCD and SelectaVision � see also videodisc), and Internet

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downloads may be available and have started to become revenue sources for the film companies. Some films The Golden Compass Movie Times are now made The Golden Compass Movie Times specifically for these other venues, being released The Golden Compass Movie Times as made-for-TV movies or direct-to-video movies. The production values on these films are often considered to be of inferior quality compared to theatrical releases in similar The Golden Compass Movie Times genres, and indeed, some films that are rejected by their own studios upon completion are The Golden Compass Movie Times distributed through these markets. The movie theater pays an average of The Golden Compass Movie Times about 50-55% of its ticket sales to the movie studio, as The Golden Compass Movie Times film rental fees.[6] The actual percentage starts with a number higher than that, and decreases as the duration of a film's showing continues, as The Golden Compass Movie Times an The Golden Compass Movie Times incentive to theaters to keep movies in the theater longer. However, today's The Golden Compass Movie Times barrage of highly marketed movies ensures that most movies are shown in first-run theaters for less than 8 weeks. There are a The Golden Compass Movie Times few movies every year that defy this rule, The Golden Compass Movie Times often limited-release movies The Golden Compass Movie Times that start in only a few theaters and actually grow their theater count through good word-of-mouth and reviews. The Golden Compass Movie Times According to a 2000 study by ABN AMRO, about 26% of Hollywood movie studios' worldwide income came from box office ticket sales; 46% The Golden Compass Movie Times came from VHS and DVD sales to