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Film Veggie Tale Movie is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, Veggie Tale Movie the field of film as an art Veggie Tale Movie form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by Veggie Tale Movie creating images Veggie Tale Movie Hokus Pokus Movie using animation techniques or Veggie Tale Movie special Veggie Tale Movie effects. Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, Veggie Tale Movie and, in turn, affect them. Film is considered to be an important art Veggie Tale Movie form, a source of popular entertainment and a powerful method for educating � or indoctrinating � citizens. The visual elements of cinema gives Veggie Tale Movie motion pictures a universal power of communication. Some films have become popular Veggie Tale Movie worldwide attractions by using Veggie Tale Movie dubbing or subtitles that translate the dialogue. Traditional films are made up of a series of individual images called frames. When these images are shown rapidly in succession, a viewer has the illusion that motion is occurring. The viewer cannot see the Veggie Tale Movie flickering between Veggie Tale Movie frames due to an effect known as persistence of vision, whereby the eye retains a The origin of the name "film" comes from the fact that photographic film (also called film stock) had Veggie Tale Movie historically been the primary medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion picture, including picture, picture show, photo-play, flick, and most commonly, movie. Additional terms for the field in general Veggie Tale Movieinclude the big screen, the silver screen, the cinema, and the movies.In the 1860s, mechanisms for producing artificially created, two-dimensional images Veggie Tale Movie in motion 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 Veggie Tale Movie pictures to appear to be moving, a phenomenon called persistence of vision. Naturally, the images needed to be carefully designed to achieve the desired effect � and the underlying principle became the basis for the development of film animation. A frame from Roundhay Garden Scene, the world's earliest film, by Louis Le Veggie Tale Movie Prince, 1888 With the development of celluloid film for still Veggie Tale Movie photography, it became possible to directly capture objects in motion in realVeggie Tale Movietime. Early versions of the technology sometimes required a person to look Veggie Tale Movie into a viewing machine to Veggie Tale Movie see the pictures which were separate paper prints attached to a drum turned by a handcrank. The pictures were shown at aVeggie Tale Movievariable speed of about 5 to 10 pictures per second depending on how Veggie Tale Movie rapidly the crank was turned. Some of these machines were coin operated. By theVeggie Tale Movie1880s, the development of the motion picture camera allowed the individual component images Veggie Tale Movie to be Veggie Tale Movie captured and stored on a Veggie Tale Movie single Veggie Tale Movie reel, and led quickly to the development of a motion picture projector to shine Veggie Tale Movie light through the processed and printed film and magnify these "moving picture shows" onto a screen for an entire audience.Veggie Tale MovieThese reels, so Veggie Tale Movie exhibited, came to be known as "motion pictures". Early motion pictures were static shots thatVeggie Tale Movieshowed an event or action with no editing or other cinematic techniques. Ignoring Dickson's early sound experiments (1894), Veggie Tale Movie commercial motion pictures were purely visual art through the late 19th century, but these innovative silent films had gained a hold on the public imagination. Around the turn of the twentieth century, films began developing a narrative structure by stringing scenes together to tell narratives. The scenes were later broken up into multiple shots of Veggie Tale Movie varying sizes and angles. Other techniques such Veggie Tale Movie as camera movement were realized as effective ways to portray a story on film. Rather than leave the audience in silence, theater owners would hire a pianistVeggie Tale Movieor organist or a full Veggie Tale Movie orchestra to play music fittingVeggie Tale Moviethe mood of the film at any given moment. By the early Veggie Tale Movie 1920s, most films came with a prepared list of sheet music for this Veggie Tale Movie purpose, with complete film scores being composed for major productions. A shot from Georges Melies Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip Veggie Tale Movie to the Moon) (1902), an early narrative film. The rise of European cinema was interrupted by the breakout of World Veggie Tale Movie War I while the film industry in United Veggie Tale Movie States flourished with the rise of Hollywood. However in the 1920s, European filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, F. W. Murnau, and Fritz Lang, along with Veggie Tale Movie American innovator D. W. Griffith and the contributions of Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and others, continued to advance the medium. In Veggie Tale Movie the 1920s, new technology allowed filmmakers to attach to each film a soundtrack of speech, music and sound effects synchronized with the action on the screen. These sound films were initially distinguished by calling them "talking pictures", orVeggie Tale Movietalkies. The next Veggie Tale Movie major step in the Veggie Tale Movie development of cinema was the introduction of so-called "natural" color. While the addition of sound quickly eclipsed silent film Veggie Tale Movie and theater musicians, color was adopted more gradually as methods evolved Veggie Tale Movie making it more practical and cost Veggie Tale Movie effective to produce "natural color" films. The Veggie Tale Movie public was relatively indifferent to color photography as opposed Veggie Tale Movie to black-and-white,[citation Veggie Tale Movie needed] but as color processes improved and became as affordable as Veggie Tale Movie black-and-white film, more and more movies were Veggie Tale Movie filmed in Veggie Tale Movie color after the end of World War II, as the industry in Veggie Tale Movie America came to view color as essential to attracting audiences in its competition with television, which remained a black-and-white medium until the mid-1960s. By Veggie Tale Movie the end of the 1960s, col Since the Veggie Tale Movie decline of the studio system in the 1960s, the succeeding decades saw changes in the production and style of film. Veggie Tale Movie New Hollywood, French New Wave and Veggie Tale Movie the rise of film school educated independent filmmakers were all part of the changes the medium experienced in the latter half of Veggie Tale Movie the 20th century. Veggie Tale Movie Digital technology has been the driving force in change throughout the 1990s and into Veggie Tale Movie the 21st century. Theory Main article: FilmVeggie Tale Movietheory Film theory seeks to develop concise Veggie Tale Movie and systematic concepts that apply to theVeggie Tale Moviestudy of film as art.Veggie Tale MovieIt was started by Ricciotto Canudo's The Birth of the Veggie Tale Movie Sixth Art. Formalist Veggie Tale Movie film theory, led by Rudolf Arnheim, Bela Balazs, and Veggie Tale Movie Siegfried Veggie Tale Movie Kracauer, emphasized how film differed from reality, and thus could Veggie Tale Movie be considered Veggie Tale Movie a valid fine art. Andre Bazin reacted against this theory by arguing that film's artistic essence Veggie Tale Movie lay in its ability to mechanically reproduce reality not in Veggie Tale Movie its differences from Veggie Tale Movie reality, and this gave rise Veggie Tale Movie to realist theory. More recent analysis spurred by Lacan's psychoanalysis and Ferdinand de Saussure's Veggie Tale Movie semiotics among other things has given rise to psychoanalytical film theory, structuralist film theory, feminist filmVeggie Tale Movietheory and others. Criticism Main article: Film criticism Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films. In general, these works can be divided into two categories: academic criticism by film scholars and journalistic film criticism that appears regularly in Medusa Movie 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 Veggie Tale Movie day or two to formulate opinions. Despite this, critics have an important impact on films, especially those of certain genres. Mass marketed action, horror, and comedy films tend not to be greatly affected by Veggie Tale Movie a critic's overall Veggie Tale Movie judgment of a film. The plot summary and description of a film that makes up the majority of Veggie Tale Movie any film review can still have an important Veggie Tale Movie impact on whetherVeggie Tale Moviepeople decide to see a film. For prestige films such as most dramas, the influence of Veggie Tale Movie 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 Veggie Tale Movie box office performance is a matter of debate. Some claim that movie marketing is now Veggie Tale Movie so intense and well financed that reviewers cannot make an impact against it. However, the cataclysmic failure Veggie Tale Movie of some Veggie Tale Movie heavily-promoted movies which were harshly reviewed, as Veggie Tale Movie well as the unexpected success of critically praised independent Veggie Tale Movie movies indicates that extreme critical reactions can have considerable influence. Sweeny Todd Depp Movie 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 Veggie Tale Movie companies have so little confidence Veggie Tale Movie that they refuse to give reviewers an advanced viewing to avoid widespread panning of the film. Veggie Tale Movie However, this usually backfires Veggie Tale Movie as reviewers are wise to the tactic and warnVeggie Tale Moviethe public that the film may not be Veggie Tale Movie worth seeing and the films Veggie Tale Movie often do poorly as a result. It is Veggie Tale Movie argued that journalist film critics should only be known as film reviewers, and true film Veggie Tale Movie critics are those who take Veggie Tale Movie a Veggie Tale Movie more academic approach Veggie Tale Movie to Veggie Tale Movie films. This line of work is more often known as Veggie Tale Movie film theory or film studies. These film critics attemptVeggie Tale Movieto come to understand how film and filming techniques work, Veggie Tale Movie and what effect they have on people. Rather than Veggie Tale Movie having their works Veggie Tale Movie published in newspapers or 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: Film industry The Veggie Tale Movie making and showing of motion pictures became a source of profit almost Veggie Tale Movie as soon as the process was invented. Upon seeing how successful Veggie Tale Movie their new invention, and its product, was in their Veggie Tale Movie native France, the Lumieres quickly set about touring Veggie Tale Movie the Continent to exhibit the first films privately to Veggie Tale Movie royalty and publicly to the masses. In each country, they would normally add new, local scenes to their catalogue and, quickly enough, found local entrepreneurs Veggie Tale Movie in the various countries Veggie Tale Movie of Veggie Tale Movie Europe to buy their Veggie Tale Movie equipment and photograph, Veggie Tale Movie export, import and screen additional product commercially. The Oberammergau Passion Play of 1898[citation needed] was the first commercial motion pictureVeggie Tale Movieever Veggie Tale Movie produced. Other Veggie Tale Movie pictures soon followed, and motion pictures became Veggie Tale Movie a separate industry that overshadowed the vaudeville world. Dedicated theaters and companies formed specifically to produce and distribute films, while motion picture actors Veggie Tale Movie became major celebrities and commanded huge fees for their performances. Already by 1917, Charlie Chaplin had a Veggie Tale Movie contract that called for an Veggie Tale Movie annual salary of one million dollars. In the United States today, much of Veggie Tale Movie the film industry is centered around Hollywood. Other regional centers exist in many parts of the world,Veggie Tale Moviesuch as Mumbai-centered Bollywood, the Indian film Veggie Tale Movie industry's Hindi cinema whichVeggie Tale Movieproduces the largest number of films Veggie Tale Movie in the world.[1] Whether the Veggie Tale Movie ten thousand-plus feature length films a year produced by the Valley Veggie Tale Movie pornographic Veggie Tale Movie film industry should qualify for this title is the source of some debate.[citation Veggie Tale Movie needed] Though the expense involved in making movies has led cinema production to concentrate under the auspices of movie studios, recent advances in affordable film making equipment have allowed independentVeggie Tale Moviefilm productions to flourish. Profit is a key force in the industry, due to Veggie Tale Movie the costly and risky natureVeggie Tale Movieof filmmaking; many films have large cost overruns, a notorious example being Kevin Costner's Waterworld. Yet many filmmakers Veggie Tale Movie strive Veggie Tale Movie to create works of Veggie Tale Movie lasting social significance. The Academy Awards Veggie Tale Movie (also known as "the Veggie Tale Movie Oscars") are the most prominent film awards in the United States, providing Myspace Wife Boob Cheating Movie 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 in addition The Movie The Exorcist to Veggie Tale Movie lectures and texts. Preview A preview performance refers to a showing of a Veggie Tale Movie movie to a select audience, usually for the Veggie Tale Movie purposes of corporate promotions, before the public film premiere itself. Previews are sometimes used Veggie Tale Movie to judge audience reaction, which if unexpectedly negative, may result in recutting Veggie Tale Movie 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 in the future Veggie Tale Movie at a Veggie Tale Movie cinema, on whose screen they are shown. The term "trailer" comes from their having originally been shown at the Veggie Tale Movie end of Veggie Tale Movie a film programme. That practice did not last long, because patrons tended to leave the theater after the films ended, but the name has Veggie Tale Movie stuck. Trailers are now shown before the film (or the A movie in a double feature program) begins. The nature Veggie Tale Movie of the film determines the size and type of crew required during filmmaking. Many Hollywood adventure films need computer generated imagery (CGI), created by dozens of 3D modellers, Veggie Tale Movie animators, rotoscopers and Veggie Tale Movie compositors. However, a low-budget, independent film may be made with a skeleton Veggie Tale Movie crew, often paid very little. Also, an open source film may be produced through open, collaborative processes. Filmmaking takes place Veggie Tale Movie all over the world using different technologies, styles of acting and genre, and is produced in a variety of economic contexts that range from state-sponsored documentary in Veggie Tale Movie China to profit-oriented movie making within the American studio system. This production cycle typically takes Veggie Tale Movie three years. The first year is taken up with development. The Veggie Tale Movie 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 film company, employed during the "production" or "photography" phase, for Veggie Tale Movie the purpose of producing a film or motion picture. Crew are distinguished from cast, Veggie Tale Movie the actors who appear in front of Veggie Tale Movie the camera or provide voices for characters in the film. The crew Veggie Tale Movie interacts with but is also distinct from the production staff, consisting of producers, managers, company representatives, their assistants, and those whose primary responsibility Veggie Tale Movie falls in Veggie Tale Movie pre-production or post-production phases, such as writers and editors. Communication between production and crewVeggie Tale Moviegenerally passes through the Homemade Cumshot Movie director and his/herVeggie Tale Moviestaff 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 everything in the photography phase: props and costumes, shooting, sound, electrics (i.e., lights), sets, Veggie Tale Movie 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 celluloid, acetate, or Veggie Tale Movie polyester baseVeggie Tale Moviecoated with an emulsion containing light-sensitive chemicals. Cellulose nitrate Veggie Tale Movie was the first type of film base used to record motion pictures, but due to its Veggie Tale Movie flammability was eventually replaced by safer materials. Veggie Tale Movie Stock widths and the Veggie Tale Movie film format for images on the reel have Veggie Tale Movie had a rich Veggie Tale Movie history, though most large commercial films Veggie Tale Movie are still shot Veggie Tale Movie on (and distributed to Veggie Tale Movie theaters) as 35 Veggie Tale Movie mm prints. Originally moving picture film was shot and projected at various speeds using hand-cranked cameras and projectors; though 1000 frames per minute (16? frame/s) Veggie Tale Movie is generally cited as a standard silent speed, research indicates most films were shot between 16 frame/s and 23 frame/s andVeggie Tale Movieprojected from 18 frame/s on up (often reels Veggie Tale Movie included instructions on how fast each scene should be shown) [1]. Veggie Tale Movie When sound film was introduced in the late 1920s, a constant speed was required for the sound head. 24 frames per Veggie Tale Movie second was chosen because it was the slowest Veggie Tale Movie (and thus cheapest) speed which Veggie Tale Movie allowed for Veggie Tale Movie sufficient sound quality. Improvements Veggie Tale Movie since the late 19th century include the mechanization of cameras � allowing them to record Veggie Tale Movie at a consistent speed, quiet camera design � allowing sound recorded on-set to Veggie Tale Movie be Veggie Tale Movie usable without Veggie Tale Movie requiring large "blimps" to Veggie Tale Movie encase the camera, the invention of more sophisticated filmstocks and lenses, allowing directors to film in increasingly dim conditions, and the development of synchronized sound, allowing sound to be recorded at exactly the Veggie Tale Movie same speed as its corresponding Veggie Tale Movie action. The soundtrack can be recorded separately from Veggie Tale Movie shooting the film, Veggie Tale Movie butVeggie Tale Moviefor live-action pictures many parts Veggie Tale Movie of the soundtrack are usually recorded Veggie Tale Movie simultaneously. As a medium, film is not limited to motion pictures, since the technology developed as the basis for photography. Veggie Tale Movie It can be used to Veggie Tale Movie present a Veggie Tale Movie progressive sequence of still images in the form of Veggie Tale Movie a slideshow. Film has also been incorporated into multimedia presentations, and often has importance as primary historical documentation. However, historic films Veggie Tale Movie have problems in terms of preservation and storage, and the motion picture industry is exploring many alternatives. Most movies on Veggie Tale Movie cellulose nitrate base have been copied onto modern safety films. SomeVeggie Tale Moviestudios save color films through the use of separation masters � three B&W negatives each exposed through red, green, or Veggie Tale Movie blue filters (essentially a Veggie Tale Movie reverse of the Technicolor process). Digital methods have also been used to restore films, although their continued obsolescence cycle makes themVeggie Tale Movie(as of 2006) Veggie Tale Movie a poorVeggie Tale Moviechoice Veggie Tale Movie for long-term preservation. Film preservation of decaying film stock is a Veggie Tale Movie matter of concern to both film historians and archivists, and to companies interested in preserving Veggie Tale Movie their existing products in order to make them available to future generations (and thereby increase revenue). Preservation is Veggie Tale Movie generally a higher-concern for nitrate and single-strip color films, due to their high decay Veggie Tale Movie rates; black and white films on safety bases and color films preserved on Technicolor imbibition prints tend to keep up much 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 Veggie Tale Movie digital video cameras and Veggie Tale Movie digital projectors are gaining ground Veggie Tale Movie as well. These approaches are extremely beneficial to moviemakers, especially because footage can be Veggie Tale Movie 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 studio systems. An independent Veggie Tale Movie film (or indie film) is a film initially produced Veggie Tale Movie without financing or distributionVeggie Tale Moviefrom a major movie studio. Creative, business, and technological reasons have all contributed to the growth of the Veggie Tale Movie indie film scene in the late 20th and early 21st century. On the business side, the costs of Veggie Tale Movie big-budget studio films also leads Veggie Tale Movie to conservative choices in cast and crew. There is a trend in Hollywood towards co-financing (over two-thirds of the films put Veggie Tale Movie out Veggie Tale Movie by Warner Bros. in 2000 were joint ventures, up from 10% in 1987).[2] Veggie Tale Movie A hopeful director is almost never given the Veggie Tale Movie opportunity to get aVeggie Tale Moviejob on a big-budget studio film Veggie Tale Movie unless he or she has significant industry experience Veggie Tale Movie in film or Veggie Tale Movie television. Also, the studios rarely produce films with unknown actors, particularly in lead roles. Before Veggie Tale Movie 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 in a traditional studio film. The cost of 35 mm film is outpacing inflation: in 2002 alone, film negative costs were up Veggie Tale Movie 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, Veggie Tale Movie have lowered the technology Veggie Tale Movie barrier Veggie Tale Movie to movie Veggie Tale Movie production significantly. Veggie Tale Movie Both production and post-production costs have been significantly lowered; today, the hardware and software for post-production can be installed in Veggie Tale Movie a commodity-based personal computer. Technologies such as DVDs, FireWire connections Veggie Tale Movie and non-linear editing system pro-level software like Adobe Premiere Veggie Tale Movie Pro, Sony Vegas and Apple's Final Cut Pro, and consumer level software such as Apple's Final Cut Express and iMovie make Veggie Tale Movie movie-making relatively inexpensive. Since the introduction of Veggie Tale Movie DV Veggie Tale Movie technology, the means of production have become more democratized. Filmmakers can conceivably shoot and edit a movie, create and edit the sound and Veggie Tale Movie music, and mix the final cut Veggie Tale Movie 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. Most independent filmmakers rely on film festivals to get their films noticed and sold for distribution. The arrival of internet-based video outlets such as YouTube and Veoh has further changed the film making landscape in ways that are still to Veggie Tale Movie be determined. Open Veggie Tale Movie content film Main article: Open content film An open content film is much like Veggie Tale Movie an independent film,Veggie Tale Moviebut it is produced through open collaborations; its source material is available Veggie Tale Movie under a license which is permissive enough to allow Veggie Tale Movie other parties Veggie Tale Movie 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 Veggie Tale Movie studio systems. Fan film Main article: Fan film A fan film is a film or videoVeggie Tale Movieinspired Veggie Tale Movie by a film, television program, comic book or Veggie Tale Movie a similar Veggie Tale Movie source, created by fans rather than by Veggie Tale Movie the source's copyright holders or creators. Fan filmmakers have traditionally been amateurs, but some of Veggie Tale Movie the more notable films have actually been produced by professional Veggie Tale Movie filmmakers as film Veggie Tale Movie school class projectsVeggie Tale Movieor Veggie Tale Movie as demonstration reels. Fan films vary tremendously in length, from short faux-teaser trailers for non-existent motion pictures to rarer full-length motion pictures Animation is the technique in which each frame of a film Veggie Tale Movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing Veggie Tale Movie a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model unit (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result with Veggie Tale Movie a special animation camera. Veggie Tale Movie When the frames Veggie Tale Movie are strung together and the resulting film is Veggie Tale Movie viewed Veggie Tale Movie at a speed of 16 or more frames per second, there is an illusion of continuous Veggie Tale Movie movement (due to Veggie Tale Movie the persistence of vision). Generating such a film is very labour intensive and Veggie Tale Movie tedious, though the development of computer animation Veggie Tale Movie has Veggie Tale Movie greatly sped up the process. File Veggie Tale Movie formats like GIF, QuickTime, Shockwave and Flash allow animation to be viewed on a computer Veggie Tale Movie or over the Internet. Because animation is very Veggie Tale Movie time-consuming and often Veggie Tale Movie very expensive to produce, the Veggie Tale Movie majority Veggie Tale Movie of animation for TV and movies Veggie Tale Movie comes from professional animation studios. However, the field of Veggie Tale Movie independent animation has existed at least since the 1950s, with animation being produced by independent studios Veggie Tale Movie (and sometimes by a single person). Several independent animation producers have gone on to enter the professional animation Veggie Tale Movie industry. Limited animation is a way of increasing production and decreasing costs of animation by Veggie Tale Movie using "short cuts" in the animation process. Veggie Tale Movie This Veggie Tale Movie method Veggie Tale Movie was pioneered by UPA and popularized by Hanna-Barbera, and adapted by other studios as cartoons moved from movie theaters to television.[3] Although most animation studios are now using digital technologies in their productions, there is a specific style of animation that depends on film. Cameraless animation, made famous by moviemakers like Norman McLaren,Veggie Tale MovieLen Lye and Stan Brakhage, is painted and Veggie Tale Movie drawn directly onto pieces of film, and then run through a projector. Venues When it is initially produced, a feature Veggie Tale Movie film is Veggie Tale Movie often shown to Veggie Tale Movie audiences in Veggie Tale Movie a movie theater or cinema. The first theater designed exclusively for cinema opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1905.[4] Thousands of such Veggie Tale Movie theaters were built or converted from existing facilities within a few years.[5] In the United States, these theaters came to be known as nickelodeons, because admission typically cost a nickel (five cents). Typically, one film isVeggie Tale Moviethe featured presentation (or feature film). Veggie Tale Movie Before the 1970s, there were "double features"; typically, a high quality "A picture" rented by an independent theater for Veggie Tale Movie a lump sum, and a "B picture" of lower quality rented Veggie Tale Movie for a percentage of the gross receipts. Today, the Veggie Tale Movie 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 feature films were made Veggie Tale Movie to be shown in movie theaters. The development of television has allowed films Veggie Tale Movie to be broadcast to larger audiences, usually after the film is no longer being shown inVeggie Tale Movietheaters. Recording technology has also enabled consumers to rent or buy copies of films Veggie Tale Movie on VHS or DVD (and the older formats of laserdisc, VCD and SelectaVision � Veggie Tale Movie see also videodisc), Veggie Tale Movie and Internet Veggie Tale Movie downloads Veggie Tale Movie may be available and have started to become Veggie Tale Movie revenue sources for the film companies. Some films are now made specifically for these other venues, being released as made-for-TV movies Veggie Tale Movie 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 genres, and indeed, some films that are rejected by their own studios upon completion are distributed through 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 Veggie Tale Movie actual percentage starts with a number higher than that, and decreases as the duration ofVeggie Tale Moviea film's showing continues, as an incentive Veggie Tale Movie to theaters to keep movies in the theater longer. However, today's barrage Veggie Tale Movie of highly marketed movies ensures that most movies are shown Veggie Tale Movie in first-run theaters for less than 8 Veggie Tale Movie weeks. Veggie Tale Movie There are a few movies Veggie Tale Movie every year that defy this rule, often limited-release movies that start in only a few theaters and actually grow their Veggie Tale Movie 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 from Veggie Tale Movie box office ticket sales; 46% came from VHS andVeggie Tale MovieDVD Veggie Tale Movie sales to consumers; and 28% came from television (broadcast, cable, and pay-per-view).[6] Future state While motion picture films have been around for more Veggie Tale Movie than a century, film is still a relative newcomer in the pantheon of Veggie Tale Movie fine arts. In the 1950s, when television became widely available, industry analysts predicted the demise of local Veggie Tale Movie movie theaters. Despite competition from television's increasing technological sophistication over the 1960s and 1970s, such as the development of color television and large screens, motion picture cinemas continued. In the 1980s, when Veggie Tale Movie the widespread availability of Veggie Tale Movie inexpensive videocassette recorders enabled people to select films for home viewing, industry analysts again wrongly Veggie Tale Movie predicted the death of the local cinemas. In the 1990s and 2000s the development of digital DVD players, home Veggie Tale Movie theater amplification systems with surround sound and subwoofers, and large LCD or plasma screens enabled people to select and view films at home with greatly improved audio and visual reproduction. These new technologies provided audio and visual that Veggie Tale Movie in the past only local cinemas had been able to provide: a large, clear widescreen presentation of a film with a full-range, high-quality multi-speaker sound system. Once again industry analysts predicted the demise of the local cinema. Local cinemas will be changing in the 2000s and moving towards digital screens, a new approach which will Veggie Tale Movie allow for easier and quicker distribution of films (via satellite or hard disks), a development which may give local theaters a reprieve from their predicted demise. The cinema now faces a new Veggie Tale Movie challenge from home video by the likes of a new DVD format Blu-ray, which can provide full HD 1080p video Veggie Tale Movie 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 leap from the DVD offering of 720?480 and the paltry Veggie Tale Movie 330?480 offered by the first home video standard VHS. The maximum resolutions that film currently offers are 2485?2970 or 1420?3390, Veggie Tale Movie UHD, a future Veggie Tale Movie digital video format, will offer a Veggie Tale Movie massive resolution of 7680?4320, surpassing all current Veggie Tale Movie film resolutions. The only viable competitor to these new innovations is IMAX which can play film content at an extreme 10000?7000 resolution. Despite the Veggie Tale Movie rise of all new technologies, theVeggie Tale Moviedevelopment of the home video market and Veggie Tale Movie a surge of online piracy, 2007 was Veggie Tale Movie a record year in film that showed Veggie Tale Movie the Veggie Tale Movie highest ever box-office grosses. Many expected film to suffer as a result of the effects listed above but it has flourished, strengthening film studio expectations for theVeggie Tale Moviefuture. |