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Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating American Movie Channle images using animation techniques or special effects. Films American Movie Channle are cultural artifacts created by American Movie Channle specific American Movie Channle cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them. Film is considered

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to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment and a powerful method for educating � or indoctrinating � citizens. The visual elements American Movie Channle of cinema gives motion pictures a universal power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or American Movie Channle subtitles that translate the American Movie Channle dialogue. Traditional films are made up of a series of individual images called frames. American Movie Channle When these images are American Movie Channle shown rapidly in succession, a viewer has the illusion that motion is occurring. The viewer cannot see the flickering between frames American Movie Channle due to an effect known as persistence of vision, whereby the Wav Movie Sound Bites eye retains a American Movie Channle The origin American Movie Channle of the name "film" comes from the San Francisco Ca Movie Star Sighting fact American Movie Channle that photographic film (also called film stock) had historically been the primary medium for recording and displaying American Movie Channle motion

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pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion picture, including American Movie Channle picture, picture show, photo-play, flick, and most commonly, movie. American Movie Channle Additional terms for the field in general include the big screen, the silver screen, the American Movie Channle cinema, and the movies.In the 1860s, mechanisms for producing artificially created, two-dimensional images in motion were demonstrated with devices such as the zoetrope and American Movie Channle the praxinoscope. These machines were outgrowths of simple optical devices (such as magic lanterns) and would display sequences of still pictures at sufficient American Movie Channle speed for the images on the pictures to appear to be moving, a phenomenon called persistence of vision. Naturally, the images needed to American Movie Channle be carefully designed to achieve the desired effect � and the underlying principle became the basis for the development of American Movie Channle film American Movie Channle animation. A frame from Roundhay Garden Scene, the American Movie Channle world's earliest film, American Movie Channle by Louis Le Prince, 1888 With 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 look into a viewing machine to see the pictures which were separate paper prints attached to a drum American Movie Channle turned by a handcrank. The pictures were shown at a variable speed of about 5 to 10 pictures per American Movie Channle second depending on how rapidly the crank was turned. Some of these machines were American Movie Channle coin operated. By American Movie Channle the 1880s, the development of the motion picture camera allowed the individual component American Movie Channle images to be captured and stored on a single reel, and led American Movie Channle quickly to the development of a motion picture projector to shine light through the processed and American Movie Channle printed film American Movie Channle and magnify these American Movie Channle "moving picture shows" onto a screen for an entire audience. These reels, so exhibited, came to be known as American Movie Channle "motion pictures". Early motion pictures were static shots American Movie Channle that showed an event or action

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other cinematic American Movie Channle techniques. Ignoring Dickson's early sound experiments (1894), commercial motion pictures were purely visual art through the late 19th century, but these innovative silent American Movie Channle films had gained American Movie Channle a hold on the public imagination. Around the turn of the twentieth century, American Movie Channle films began developing a narrative American Movie Channle structure by stringing scenes together to tell narratives. The scenes were later broken up into multiple shots of varying American Movie Channle sizes and American Movie Channle angles. Other techniques such as camera movement were realized as effective ways to American Movie Channle portray a story on American Movie Channle film. Rather than leave the American Movie Channle audience in silence, theater American Movie Channle owners would hire American Movie Channle a pianist or organist American Movie Channle or a American Movie Channle full orchestra to play music fitting the mood of the film at any given moment. By the early 1920s, most films came with a prepared list of sheet music for this purpose, with American Movie Channle complete film American Movie Channle scores being composed for major productions. A shot from Georges Melies Le Voyage dans la American Movie Channle Lune (A American Movie Channle Trip to American Movie Channle the Moon) (1902), an early narrative film. The rise of European cinema was interrupted by the breakout of World War I American Movie Channle while the film industry in United States flourished with the rise American Movie Channle of Hollywood. However in the 1920s, European filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, F. W. Murnau, and Fritz Lang, along with American innovator D. W. Griffith and the contributions of Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and others, continued to American Movie Channle advance the medium. In the 1920s, new technology allowed filmmakers to attach to each film a soundtrack of speech, music and sound effects synchronized with the American Movie Channle action on the screen. These sound American Movie Channle films were initially distinguished by calling American Movie Channle them "talking pictures", or talkies. The next major step in the development of cinema was the American Movie Channle introduction of so-called "natural" color. While the addition of sound quickly

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eclipsed American Movie Channle silent film and theater musicians, color was adopted more gradually as methods American Movie Channle evolved making it more practical and cost effective to produce "natural color" films. The public was relatively indifferent to color photography as opposed American Movie Channle to black-and-white,[citation needed] but as color processes improved and became American Movie Channle as affordable as black-and-white film, more and more movies were American Movie Channle filmed in color after the end of World War American Movie Channle II, as the American Movie Channle industry in America came to view color as essential to attracting audiences in its competition American Movie Channle with television, which remained a black-and-white medium until American Movie Channle the mid-1960s. By the end of the 1960s, col Since the decline of the American Movie Channle studio system in the 1960s, American Movie Channle the succeeding decades saw changes in the production and style of film. New Hollywood, French New Wave and the rise of film school educated independent filmmakers were all part of the changes the medium experienced in the latter half of the 20th century. Digital technology has American Movie Channle been the American Movie Channle driving force in change American Movie Channle throughout the 1990s American Movie Channle and into the 21st century. Theory Main article: Film theory Film theory

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seeks to develop concise and systematic concepts that apply to the American Movie Channle 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 American Movie Channle art. Andre Bazin reacted against this theory by American Movie Channle arguing that film's artistic American Movie Channle essence lay in its ability to mechanically reproduce

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reality not in its differences from American Movie Channle reality, and this gave rise to realist theory. More recent analysis spurred by Lacan's psychoanalysis and Ferdinand de Saussure's semiotics among American Movie Channle other things has given rise to psychoanalytical film American Movie Channle theory, structuralist film theory, feminist film theory and others. Criticism Main article: Film criticism Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films. American Movie Channle In general, these works can American Movie Channle be divided into two categories: academic criticism by film scholars and journalistic film criticism that appears regularly in newspapers and other media. Film critics working for newspapers, magazines, American Movie Channle and broadcast American Movie Channle media mainly review new American Movie Channle releases. Normally they only see any given film once and have only a day or two American Movie Channle to formulate opinions. Despite this, critics have American Movie Channle an important impact on films, especially those of certain genres. Mass marketed action, horror, and comedy films tend

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not to be greatly affected by a critic's overall judgment of a film. The American Movie Channle plot summary and description of a film that makes up the majority of any film review can still have an American Movie Channle important impact on whether people decide to see a film. American Movie Channle For prestige films such as most dramas, the influence of reviews is extremely important. Poor reviews will often doom a film to obscurity and financial loss. The impact of a reviewer on a given film's box American Movie Channle office performance is a matter of debate. Some claim that movie marketing is now so intense and well financed that reviewers cannot make an impact against it. However, the cataclysmic failure of some heavily-promoted movies The Movie The Story Of O which were harshly reviewed, American Movie Channle as well as the unexpected success of critically praised independent movies indicates that extreme critical reactions can American Movie Channle 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 American Movie Channle so little confidence that they American Movie Channle refuse to give reviewers an advanced American Movie Channle viewing to avoid widespread panning of American Movie Channle the film. However, this usually American Movie Channle backfires as reviewers American Movie Channle are wise to the tactic and warn the public that the film may not be worth seeing and the films often do poorly as a result. It American Movie Channle is argued that journalist film critics should only be known as film reviewers, and American Movie Channle true film American Movie Channle critics are those who take a American Movie Channle more academic approach to films. This line of work is more often known as film theory or film studies. American Movie Channle These film critics attempt to come to understand how film and

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filming techniques work, and what effect they have on people. Rather than having their works published in newspapers or American Movie Channle appear on American Movie Channle 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: Film American Movie Channle industry The making and showing of motion pictures became a source of profit almost as soon as 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 to exhibit the American Movie Channle first films privately to royalty and publicly to the American Movie Channle masses. In each country, they would normally add new, American Movie Channle local scenes to their catalogue American Movie Channle and, quickly American Movie Channle 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 American Movie Channle Passion Play of 1898[citation needed] was the first commercial motion picture ever produced. Other pictures soon followed, and motion pictures became a separate industry American Movie Channle that overshadowed the vaudeville world. Dedicated theaters and companies formed specifically to produce and distribute films, while motion picture actors became major celebrities and commanded huge fees for their performances. American Movie Channle Already by 1917, Charlie Chaplin had a contract that called for an annual salary of one million dollars. In the United States today, much of the film industry is American Movie Channle centered around

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Hollywood. Other regional centers exist in many parts of the world, such as Mumbai-centered Bollywood, the American Movie Channle Indian film American Movie Channle industry's Hindi cinema which produces Projector Map Movie In 3d Max the largest number of films in the world.[1] Whether the ten thousand-plus feature length films American Movie Channle a year produced by the Valley pornographic film industry should qualify for this title is the source of some debate.[citation needed] Though the American Movie Channle expense involved in making movies has led cinema production to concentrate under the auspices of movie studios, recent advances in affordable

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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; many films have large cost American Movie Channle overruns, a notorious example being Kevin American Movie Channle Costner's Waterworld. Yet many filmmakers strive to create works of lasting social significance. The Academy American Movie Channle 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 American Movie Channle educational and instructional films made in lieu of or American Movie Channle in addition to lectures and texts. Preview A preview performance refers to a showing of a movie American Movie Channle to a select audience, usually American Movie Channle for the purposes of corporate promotions, before the public film American Movie Channle premiere itself. Previews are sometimes used to judge audience reaction, which if unexpectedly negative, may result in recutting or even refilming certain sections. (cf American Movie Channle Audience response.) Trailer Main article: Trailer (film) Trailers or previews are film advertisements for films that will American Movie Channle be exhibited in the future at a cinema, on whose American Movie Channle screen they are shown. The term "trailer" comes from their having originally been shown at the end of a film programme. That practice did not last long, because patrons tended American Movie Channle to leave the theater after the films ended, but the name has stuck. Trailers are now American Movie Channle shown before the film (or the A movie in a double American Movie Channle feature program) begins. The nature of American Movie Channle the film determines the size and type of crew required during filmmaking. Many Hollywood adventure films need computer generated imagery (CGI), created American Movie Channle by dozens of 3D modellers, animators, rotoscopers and compositors. American Movie Channle However, a low-budget, independent film may be made with a skeleton crew, often paid

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very little. Also, an open source film may be produced through open, collaborative processes. Filmmaking takes place all over the world using different technologies, styles of acting and genre, and is produced in a variety of economic contexts that American Movie Channle range from state-sponsored documentary in China to profit-oriented movie making within the American American Movie Channle studio system. This production cycle typically takes three years. The first year is taken up with development. American Movie Channle The second year comprises preproduction and production. American Movie Channle The third year, post-production and American Movie Channle distribution. Crew Main article: Film crew A film crew is a American Movie Channle group of people hired by a film company, employed during the "production" or "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 provide voices for characters in American Movie Channle the American Movie Channle film. The crew interacts with but is American Movie Channle also distinct from the production staff, consisting of producers, managers, American Movie Channle company representatives, their assistants, and those whose primary responsibility American Movie Channle falls in pre-production or post-production phases, such as writers and editors. Communication between American Movie Channle production and crew generally passes through the director and his/her American Movie Channle staff of assistants. Medium-to-large crews are American Movie Channle generally divided into departments with well defined hierarchies and standards for interaction and cooperation between the departments. Other than acting, the American Movie Channle crew handles everything American Movie Channle in the American Movie Channle photography phase: props and costumes, shooting, sound, electrics (i.e., lights), sets, and production special effects. American Movie Channle Caterers (known American Movie Channle in the film American Movie Channle industry as "craft services") are usually not considered part of the crew. Technology Film stock consists of transparent celluloid, acetate, or American Movie Channle polyester base coated with an emulsion American Movie Channle containing light-sensitive chemicals. Cellulose nitrate was the first type of film base used to record motion pictures, but American Movie Channle due to its flammability was eventually replaced American Movie Channle by safer materials. Stock widths and the film format for images on the reel have had a rich history, though most large commercial films are still shot on (and distributed to theaters) as 35 mm prints. Originally moving picture film was shot and projected at various speeds using hand-cranked cameras and projectors; though 1000 frames American Movie Channle per minute (16? frame/s) is American Movie Channle generally cited as a standard silent speed, research indicates most films were shot between 16 frame/s and 23 frame/s American Movie Channle and projected American Movie Channle from 18 frame/s on 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 because it was the American Movie Channle slowest (and thus cheapest) speed which allowed for sufficient sound quality. Improvements since the late 19th century include American Movie Channle the mechanization of cameras � allowing them to record American Movie Channle at a consistent speed, quiet camera design American Movie Channle � allowing sound recorded on-set to American Movie Channle be usable without requiring large "blimps"

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to encase the American Movie Channle camera, the invention of more sophisticated filmstocks and lenses, allowing directors American Movie Channle to film in increasingly dim conditions, and the development American Movie Channle of synchronized sound, allowing sound to be

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recorded at American Movie Channle exactly the same speed as American Movie Channle its corresponding action. The soundtrack can be recorded separately from shooting the film, but for live-action pictures many parts of the soundtrack are American Movie Channle usually recorded simultaneously. As American Movie Channle a medium, film is American Movie Channle not limited to motion pictures, since the technology American Movie Channle developed as American Movie Channle the basis for photography. It can be used to present a American Movie Channle progressive sequence of American Movie Channle still American Movie Channle images in American Movie Channle the form of a slideshow. Film has also been American Movie Channle incorporated into multimedia presentations, and often has importance as primary historical documentation. However, historic films have problems in terms of preservation and storage, and

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the motion picture industry is exploring many alternatives. Most movies on cellulose nitrate base have been copied onto modern safety films. Some studios save color films through the use of separation masters � three B&W negatives each exposed through red, green, or blue filters American Movie Channle (essentially a reverse of the Technicolor process). Digital methods 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 of concern to both film historians and archivists, and to companies American Movie Channle interested in preserving their existing products American Movie Channle in

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order to make them available to future generations (and thereby increase revenue). Preservation is generally a higher-concern for nitrate and single-strip color films, due to their high decay rates; black and white films on safety bases and color American Movie Channle films preserved on Technicolor imbibition prints tend to keep American Movie Channle up much Movie Bumper Stickers better, assuming proper handling and storage. Some films in 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 extremely beneficial to moviemakers, especially because footage can American Movie Channle be evaluated 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 The Lumiere Brothers Independent filmmaking often takes place outside of Hollywood, or other major American Movie Channle studio systems. An independent American Movie Channle film (or indie film) is American Movie Channle a American Movie Channle film initially produced without American Movie Channle financing or distribution from a major movie studio. Creative, business, and technological reasons have all American Movie Channle contributed to the growth of the indie film scene in the late 20th and early 21st century. On the business side, the costs American Movie Channle of American Movie Channle big-budget studio films also American Movie Channle leads to conservative choices in cast and crew. There is a trend in Hollywood towards co-financing (over two-thirds of the American Movie Channle films put out by Warner Bros. in 2000 were joint ventures, up from 10% in 1987).[2] A hopeful director American Movie Channle is almost never given the opportunity to get a job on a big-budget studio

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film unless he or she has significant industry experience in film or television. Also, the studios rarely produce films with unknown actors, particularly in lead roles. Before the advent of digital alternatives, the cost of professional film equipment and stock was also a hurdle to being able to produce, direct, or star American Movie Channle in a traditional studio film. The cost American Movie Channle of 35 mm film is outpacing inflation: in American Movie Channle 2002 alone, film negative costs were up 23%, according to Variety.[2]. But the advent American Movie Channle of consumer camcorders in 1985, and more importantly, the arrival of high-resolution digital video in the early

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1990s, have lowered American Movie Channle the technology barrier to American Movie Channle movie production significantly. Both production and post-production costs have been significantly lowered; today, the hardware and software for post-production can be installed in American Movie Channle a commodity-based personal computer. Technologies such American Movie Channle as DVDs, FireWire connections and non-linear editing system pro-level software like Adobe Premiere American Movie Channle Pro, Sony Vegas and Apple's Final Cut Pro, and consumer level software such as Apple's Final Cut Express and iMovie make movie-making relatively inexpensive. Since American Movie Channle the introduction of DV technology, the means of production have become more American Movie Channle 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 traditional system. American Movie Channle Most independent filmmakers rely on film festivals to get their films noticed and sold for distribution. The arrival of

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internet-based video outlets such as YouTube and American Movie Channle 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, American Movie Channle but it is produced through open collaborations; its American Movie Channle source material is available under American Movie Channle a license which is permissive enough to allow

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other parties to create fan fiction or derivative works, than a traditional copyright. Like independent filmmaking, open source filmmaking takes place outside of Hollywood, or other major studio systems. Fan film Main article: Fan film A fan film is a film American Movie Channle or video inspired by a film, television program, American Movie Channle comic book or a similar source, created by fans American Movie Channle rather American Movie Channle than by the American Movie Channle source's copyright holders American Movie Channle or creators. Fan filmmakers have traditionally been amateurs, but some of the more notable films have actually been produced by professional filmmakers as American Movie Channle film school American Movie Channle class projects or as demonstration reels. Fan films vary tremendously in length, from short faux-teaser trailers for non-existent motion American Movie Channle pictures to American Movie Channle rarer full-length motion pictures Animation American Movie Channle is American Movie Channle the technique American Movie Channle in American Movie Channle which each frame of a film is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, American Movie Channle or by photographing a drawn American Movie Channle image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model unit (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result with a special animation camera. When American Movie Channle the frames American Movie Channle 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 of vision). Generating such a film is very American Movie Channle labour intensive and tedious, though the development of computer animation has greatly sped up the process. File American Movie Channle formats like GIF, QuickTime, Shockwave American Movie Channle and Flash allow animation to be viewed on a computer or over the American Movie Channle Internet. Because animation is very time-consuming and often American Movie Channle very expensive to produce, the majority of animation for TV and movies comes from professional animation studios. However, the American Movie Channle field of

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independent animation has American Movie Channle existed Even Stevens The Movie at least since the 1950s, with animation being produced American Movie Channle by independent studios (and sometimes American Movie Channle by a single person). Several independent animation producers have gone on to enter the professional animation industry. Limited animation is a way of increasing production and American Movie Channle decreasing costs of animation by using "short cuts" in the animation process. This method was pioneered by UPA and American Movie Channle popularized by Hanna-Barbera, and adapted by American Movie Channle other studios as cartoons moved from movie American Movie Channle theaters American Movie Channle to television.[3] Although most animation studios are now American Movie Channle using digital technologies in their American Movie Channle productions, there is a specific style of American Movie Channle animation that depends on film. American Movie Channle Cameraless animation, made famous by moviemakers like Norman McLaren, Len Lye and Stan Brakhage,

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is painted and drawn directly onto pieces of film, and then run through a projector. Venues When it is initially American Movie Channle produced, a feature film is often shown American Movie Channle to audiences in

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a movie theater or cinema. The first theater designed exclusively for cinema

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opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1905.[4] Thousands of such theaters were built or converted from existing facilities within a few years.[5] American Movie Channle In the United States, these theaters came to be known American Movie Channle as nickelodeons, because admission typically cost a nickel (five cents). Typically, one film is the featured presentation American Movie Channle (or feature film). Before the 1970s, there were "double features"; typically, American Movie Channle a high quality "A picture" rented by an independent theater for a lump sum, and a American Movie Channle "B picture" of lower quality rented

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for a percentage of the gross receipts. Today, the bulk of the material shown before the feature film consists of previews for upcoming movies and paid advertisements (also known as trailers or "The Twenty"). Historically, all mass marketed American Movie Channle feature films were made to be shown in movie theaters. The American Movie Channle development American Movie Channle of television has allowed films to

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be broadcast Young Frankenstein Movie Pictures to larger audiences, usually after the film is no longer being shown in American Movie Channle theaters. Recording technology has also enabled consumers to rent or buy copies of films on VHS or DVD (and the older formats of laserdisc, VCD and SelectaVision � see American Movie Channle also videodisc), and Internet downloads may be available and have started to become revenue sources for the film companies. Some films are American Movie Channle now made American Movie Channle specifically for these other venues, being released as made-for-TV movies or direct-to-video movies. The production values American Movie Channle on these American Movie Channle films are often considered to be of inferior quality compared to theatrical American Movie Channle releases in similar genres, American Movie Channle and indeed, some films that are rejected by their own studios upon completion are distributed American Movie Channle through these markets. The movie theater pays an American Movie Channle average of about 50-55% of its American Movie Channle ticket sales to the movie studio, as film rental American Movie Channle fees.[6] The actual percentage starts with a number higher than that, and decreases as the duration American Movie Channle of a film's showing continues, as an incentive to theaters to keep movies in the theater longer. American Movie Channle However, today's American Movie Channle barrage of American Movie Channle highly marketed American Movie Channle movies ensures that most movies are shown in first-run American Movie Channle theaters for American Movie Channle less than 8 weeks. American Movie Channle There are a few movies every year that defy this rule, often limited-release movies that American Movie Channle start American Movie Channle in American Movie Channle only a few theaters and actually grow their theater count through good word-of-mouth and reviews. According to a 2000 study by ABN AMRO, about 26% of Hollywood movie studios' worldwide income came American Movie Channle from box office 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 American Movie Channle motion picture films have been around for American Movie Channle more than a century, Grease Movie Clothing film American Movie Channle is American Movie Channle still a relative newcomer in the pantheon of fine American Movie Channle arts. In the 1950s, when television became widely available, industry analysts predicted the demise of local movie theaters. Despite

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competition from television's American Movie Channle increasing technological sophistication over the 1960s American Movie Channle and 1970s, such as the development of color American Movie Channle television and large screens, American Movie Channle motion picture cinemas continued. In the

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1980s, when the widespread availability of inexpensive 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 American Movie Channle LCD or plasma screens

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enabled people to select and view films at home with greatly improved audio American Movie Channle and visual reproduction. These new technologies provided audio and American Movie Channle visual that American Movie Channle in the past American Movie Channle only local cinemas had been able to provide: a large, clear widescreen presentation of a film with a full-range, high-quality American Movie Channle multi-speaker sound system. Once

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again industry analysts predicted the demise of the local cinema. Local cinemas will be changing in the 2000s and moving towards digital screens, American Movie Channle a new approach which will allow for easier and quicker distribution of films (via satellite or hard disks), a development American Movie Channle which may American Movie Channle give local theaters

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a reprieve from their predicted demise. The cinema now faces a new challenge American Movie Channle from home video by the American Movie Channle likes of a new DVD format Blu-ray, which American Movie Channle 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 a pixel resolution of 1920?1080 a American Movie Channle leap from American Movie Channle the DVD offering American Movie Channle of 720?480 and the paltry 330?480 offered by American Movie Channle the first home video standard VHS. The maximum resolutions that film currently offers are 2485?2970 or 1420?3390, UHD, a future digital video format, will offer American Movie Channle a massive resolution of 7680?4320, surpassing all current film resolutions. The only viable competitor to these new American Movie Channle innovations is IMAX which can play American Movie Channle film content at an extreme 10000?7000 resolution. Despite the American Movie Channle rise of all new technologies, the development

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film that American Movie Channle showed the highest ever box-office grosses. Many expected film to suffer American