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which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them. Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of Loew S Movie Theater popular entertainment and a powerful method for educating � or indoctrinating � citizens.

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The visual elements of cinema gives Loew S Movie Theater motion pictures a universal power of Loew S Movie Theater communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or Loew S Movie Theater subtitles that translate the dialogue. Traditional films are made up of a series of individual images called frames. Loew S Movie Theater When Loew S Movie Theater these images are shown Loew S Movie Theater rapidly in succession, a viewer Loew S Movie Theater has the illusion that motion is occurring. The Loew S Movie Theater viewer cannot see the flickering between frames due to an effect known as persistence of vision, Loew S Movie Theater whereby the eye retains a The origin of the name Loew S Movie Theater "film" comes Loew S Movie Theater from the Loew S Movie Theater fact Loew S Movie Theater that photographic film (also Loew S Movie Theater called film stock) had historically been the primary medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for Loew S Movie Theater an individual motion picture, including picture, picture show, photo-play, flick, and most commonly, movie. Additional terms for the field in general include the big screen, the silver screen, the cinema, and the movies.In the 1860s, mechanisms for producing artificially created, two-dimensional images in motion were demonstrated with devices such as Loew S Movie Theater the zoetrope and the praxinoscope. These machines were outgrowths of simple optical devices (such as magic lanterns) and Loew S Movie Theater would display sequences of still pictures at sufficient speed for Loew S Movie Theater the images on Loew S Movie Theater the pictures to appear to be moving, a phenomenon called persistence of vision. Naturally, the images needed to be carefully designed to achieve the

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desired effect Loew S Movie Theater � and the underlying principle became the basis Loew S Movie Theater for the development of film animation. A frame from Roundhay Garden Loew S Movie Theater Scene, the world's earliest film, 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 Loew S Movie Theater time. Early versions of Loew S Movie Theater the technology sometimes required a person to look into a viewing machine to see Loew S Movie Theater the pictures which were separate paper prints attached to a drum turned by a handcrank. The pictures were shown at a variable Loew S Movie Theater speed of about 5 to 10 pictures per second depending on how rapidly the crank Loew S Movie Theater was turned. Some of these machines were coin operated. By the 1880s, the development of the motion picture Loew S Movie Theater camera allowed the individual component images to be captured and 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 shows" onto a screen for an entire audience. These reels, so exhibited, came to be known as "motion pictures". Early motion pictures were static shots that 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 Loew S Movie Theater the late 19th century, but these innovative silent films had gained a hold on the public imagination. Around the turn of the twentieth Loew S Movie Theater century, films began developing a narrative structure by stringing scenes Loew S Movie Theater together to tell narratives. The scenes were later broken up into multiple shots of varying sizes and angles. Other techniques such as camera movement were realized as effective ways to portray a story on film. Rather than leave the audience in silence, theater owners would Loew S Movie Theater hire a pianist or organist or a full orchestra to Loew S Movie Theater play Loew S Movie Theater music fitting the mood of Loew S Movie Theater the film at any given moment. By the early 1920s, most films came with Loew S Movie Theater a prepared list Loew S Movie Theater of sheet music for this Loew S Movie Theater purpose, with complete Loew S Movie Theater film scores being composed for major productions. A Loew S Movie Theater shot from Georges Melies

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Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to Loew S Movie Theater the Moon) (1902), an early narrative film. The rise of European cinema was interrupted Loew S Movie Theater by the Loew S Movie Theater breakout of Loew S Movie Theater World War I while the film industry in United States flourished with the rise of Hollywood. Loew S Movie Theater However in the 1920s, Loew S Movie Theater European filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, Loew S Movie Theater F. W. Murnau, and Loew S Movie Theater Fritz Loew S Movie Theater Lang, along with American innovator D. W. Griffith and the contributions of Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and others, continued to 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 action on the screen. These sound films were initially distinguished by calling them "talking pictures", or talkies. The next major step in the development of Loew S Movie Theater cinema was the introduction of so-called "natural" Loew S Movie Theater color. While the addition of sound quickly eclipsed silent film and theater musicians, color was adopted Loew S Movie Theater more gradually as methods evolved making Loew S Movie Theater it more practical and cost effective to produce "natural color" films. The public was relatively indifferent to color photography as opposed to black-and-white,[citation needed] but as color processes improved and became as affordable as black-and-white Loew S Movie Theater film, more and more movies were filmed in color after the end of World War II, as the industry in America Loew S Movie Theater came to view color as essential to attracting audiences in its Loew S Movie Theater competition with television, which remained a black-and-white medium until the mid-1960s. By the end of the 1960s, col Since the decline of the Loew S Movie Theater studio system in the 1960s, the succeeding decades saw changes in the production and style Loew S Movie Theater of film. New Hollywood, French New Wave and the rise of film school educated independent filmmakers were all part of the changes the medium Loew S Movie Theater experienced in the latter half

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of the 20th century. Digital technology has been the driving force in change throughout Loew S Movie Theater the 1990s and into the 21st century. Theory Main Loew S Movie Theater article: Film theory Film theory seeks to develop concise and systematic concepts that apply to the Loew S Movie Theater 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

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Siegfried Loew S Movie Theater Kracauer, emphasized how film differed from reality, and Loew S Movie Theater thus could be considered Loew S Movie Theater a valid fine art. Andre Bazin reacted against this theory Loew S Movie Theater by arguing that film's artistic essence lay in its ability to mechanically reproduce reality not in its differences from reality, and this gave rise to realist theory. More recent analysis spurred by Lacan's psychoanalysis and Loew S Movie Theater Ferdinand Loew S Movie Theater de Saussure's semiotics among other things has given rise Loew S Movie Theater to psychoanalytical film theory, structuralist film theory,

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feminist film theory and others. Criticism Main article: Film criticism Film criticism Loew S Movie Theater is the analysis and Loew S Movie Theater evaluation Loew S Movie Theater 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 newspapers and other media. Film critics working for newspapers, magazines, and Loew S Movie Theater broadcast media mainly review new releases. Normally they only see Loew S Movie Theater any given film once and have only a day or two to formulate opinions. Despite this, critics have an important impact on films, especially those of certain Loew S Movie Theater genres. Mass marketed action, horror, and comedy films tend not to be greatly affected by a critic's overall judgment of a film. The plot summary and Loew S Movie Theater description of a film that makes up Loew S Movie Theater the majority of any film review can still have an important impact on whether people decide to see a film. For prestige films Loew S Movie Theater such as Loew S Movie Theater most dramas, the influence Loew S Movie Theater of reviews is extremely important. Poor reviews will Loew S Movie Theater often doom a film to obscurity 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

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marketing is Loew S Movie Theater now so intense and well Loew S Movie Theater financed that reviewers cannot make an Loew S Movie Theater impact against it. However, the cataclysmic failure of some heavily-promoted movies which Loew S Movie Theater were harshly reviewed, as well as the unexpected success of critically praised independent movies indicates that

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extreme critical reactions can have considerable influence. Loew S Movie Theater Others note that positive film reviews have been shown to spark interest Loew S Movie Theater in little-known films. Conversely, Loew S Movie Theater there have been several films in Loew S Movie Theater which film companies

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have so little confidence that they refuse to Loew S Movie Theater give reviewers an advanced viewing to avoid widespread panning Loew S Movie Theater of the film. However, this usually backfires Loew S Movie Theater as reviewers 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 is argued that journalist film critics should only be known Loew S Movie Theater as Loew S Movie Theater film reviewers, and true film critics are those who take a more academic approach to films. This line Loew S Movie Theater of work is more often known as film theory or film studies. These film critics attempt Loew S Movie Theater to come Loew S Movie Theater to understand Loew S Movie Theater how film and filming Loew S Movie Theater techniques work, and what effect they have on Loew S Movie Theater people. Rather than having their works published in newspapers or appear on television, Loew S Movie Theater 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: Loew S Movie Theater Film industry The making and Loew S Movie Theater showing of motion pictures became a source Loew S Movie Theater of profit Loew S Movie Theater almost as Loew S Movie Theater soon as the process was invented. Upon seeing how successful their new invention, and its product, was Loew S Movie Theater in their native Loew S Movie Theater France, the Lumieres quickly set about touring the Continent to exhibit the first films privately to royalty and publicly to the masses. In each country, they Loew S Movie Theater would normally add new, local scenes to

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their catalogue and, Loew S Movie Theater quickly enough, found local entrepreneurs in the various countries of Europe to buy their equipment and photograph, export, import Loew S Movie Theater and screen additional product commercially. The Oberammergau Passion Play of 1898[citation needed] was the first commercial motion picture ever produced. Loew S Movie Theater Other pictures soon followed, and motion pictures became a separate industry Loew S Movie Theater that Loew S Movie Theater overshadowed the vaudeville world.

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Dedicated theaters and companies formed specifically to produce and distribute films, while motion picture Loew S Movie Theater actors became major celebrities and commanded huge fees for their performances. Loew S Movie Theater Already by 1917, Charlie Chaplin had a contract Loew S Movie Theater that called for an Loew S Movie Theater annual salary of one million dollars. In the United States today, much of the film industry is centered around Hollywood. Other regional centers exist in many parts of the world, such as Mumbai-centered Bollywood, the Indian film Loew S Movie Theater 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 Loew S Movie Theater this title is the 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 Loew S Movie Theater 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; Loew S Movie Theater many films have large cost overruns, a notorious example being Kevin Costner's Waterworld. Yet many filmmakers strive to create works of Loew S Movie Theater lasting social significance. The Academy Awards (also known as "the Oscars") are Loew S Movie Theater the Loew S Movie Theater most prominent film awards in the United States, providing recognition each year to films, ostensibly based Loew S Movie Theater on their artistic merits. There is also a large industry for educational and instructional films Loew S Movie Theater made in lieu of or in addition to lectures and texts. Preview A preview performance refers to a showing of a movie to a select audience, Loew S Movie Theater usually for the purposes of corporate promotions, before the public film premiere itself. Previews are sometimes used to judge audience reaction, which if unexpectedly negative, may result in recutting or even refilming certain sections. (cf Audience response.) Trailer Main article: Trailer (film) Trailers or previews are film advertisements

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for films that

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will be exhibited in the future at a cinema, on whose screen they are shown. The term "trailer" comes from their having originally been shown Loew S Movie Theater at the end Loew S Movie Theater of a film programme. That 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 Loew S Movie Theater movie in a Loew S Movie Theater double feature program) begins. The nature of the film determines the size and type of crew required during Loew S Movie Theater filmmaking. Many Hollywood adventure films need computer generated Loew S Movie Theater imagery (CGI), created by dozens of 3D modellers, animators, rotoscopers and compositors. However, a low-budget, independent film Loew S Movie Theater may be made with a skeleton crew, often paid 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 Loew S Movie Theater of economic contexts that range from Loew S Movie Theater state-sponsored documentary in China to profit-oriented movie making within Loew S Movie Theater the American studio system. This production cycle typically takes three years. The first year is taken up Loew S Movie Theater with development. The second year comprises preproduction and production. The third year, post-production and distribution. Crew Main article: Film crew A film crew Loew S Movie Theater is a group of Loew S Movie Theater people hired by a film company, employed during the "production" or "photography" phase, for the purpose of producing a film or motion picture. Loew S Movie Theater Crew are distinguished from cast, the actors who Loew S Movie Theater appear in front of the camera or provide voices for characters in Loew S Movie Theater the film. The crew interacts with but Loew S Movie Theater is Loew S Movie Theater also distinct from Loew S Movie Theater the production staff, consisting of producers, managers, company representatives, their Loew S Movie Theater assistants, and those whose primary responsibility falls in pre-production or post-production phases, Loew S Movie Theater such as writers and editors. Loew S Movie Theater Communication between production and crew generally passes through the director and his/her staff of assistants. Medium-to-large crews are generally divided into departments with well defined hierarchies and standards for interaction and cooperation between the departments. Loew S Movie Theater Other than Loew S Movie Theater acting, the

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crew handles everything in the photography phase: props and costumes, shooting, sound, electrics (i.e., lights), sets, and production special effects.

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Caterers (known in the film industry as "craft services") are usually not considered part of the crew. Technology Film

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stock consists of transparent celluloid, acetate, or polyester base coated Loew S Movie Theater with an emulsion containing light-sensitive chemicals. Cellulose nitrate was the first type of film base used to Loew S Movie Theater record motion Loew S Movie Theater pictures, Loew S Movie Theater but due to its flammability was eventually replaced 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 Loew S Movie Theater still

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shot on (and distributed Loew S Movie Theater to theaters) as Loew S Movie Theater 35 mm prints. Originally moving picture Loew S Movie Theater film was shot and projected at various speeds using hand-cranked cameras and Loew S Movie Theater projectors; though 1000 frames per minute (16? frame/s) is generally cited as a standard silent speed, research indicates most films were shot between Loew S Movie Theater 16 frame/s and 23 frame/s and projected from 18 frame/s on up (often Loew S Movie Theater reels included Loew S Movie Theater instructions on how fast each Loew S Movie Theater scene should be shown) [1]. When sound film was introduced in the late 1920s, a constant speed was required Loew S Movie Theater for the sound head. 24 frames Loew S Movie Theater per second was chosen because it was the slowest (and thus cheapest) speed which allowed for sufficient sound quality. Improvements since the late 19th

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century include the mechanization of cameras � allowing them to record at a consistent speed, quiet camera design � allowing sound recorded on-set to be usable without requiring Loew S Movie Theater large "blimps" to Loew S Movie Theater encase the camera, the invention of more sophisticated Loew S Movie Theater filmstocks and lenses, allowing directors to film in increasingly dim conditions, and the development of synchronized sound, Loew S Movie Theater allowing sound to Loew S Movie Theater be Loew S Movie Theater recorded at Loew S Movie Theater exactly the same speed as its corresponding Loew S Movie Theater action. The soundtrack can be recorded separately from shooting Loew S Movie Theater the film, but Loew S Movie Theater for live-action pictures many parts of the soundtrack are usually recorded simultaneously. As a medium, film is not limited to motion Loew S Movie Theater pictures, Loew S Movie Theater since the Loew S Movie Theater 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 often has importance as primary historical documentation. However, historic films have problems in terms of preservation and storage,

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and the motion picture industry is exploring Loew S Movie Theater many alternatives. Most Loew S Movie Theater movies on cellulose nitrate base have been copied onto modern safety films. Some Loew S Movie Theater studios save color films through the use of separation masters � three B&W negatives Loew S Movie Theater each exposed through red, Loew S Movie Theater green, or blue filters (essentially a reverse of the Technicolor process). Digital Loew S Movie Theater methods have Loew S Movie Theater also Loew S Movie Theater been Loew S Movie Theater used Loew S Movie Theater 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, Loew S Movie Theater and to companies interested in preserving their Loew S Movie Theater existing products in 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 Loew S Movie Theater films Loew S Movie Theater preserved Loew S Movie Theater on Technicolor imbibition prints tend Loew S Movie Theater to keep up much better, assuming proper handling and storage. Some films Loew S Movie Theater in recent decades have

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in television

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production. Modern digital video cameras and Loew S Movie Theater digital projectors are gaining ground as well. These approaches are extremely beneficial to moviemakers, especially because footage can be evaluated and edited without waiting for the film stock to be processed. Yet the migration is gradual, and as of 2005 most Loew S Movie Theater 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. Loew S Movie Theater An independent film (or indie film) is a film initially produced without financing or distribution from a major movie studio. Creative, business, and technological reasons have all contributed to the growth of the indie film Loew S Movie Theater scene in the late 20th and early 21st century. On Loew S Movie Theater the business side, the costs of big-budget studio films also Loew S Movie Theater leads to Loew S Movie Theater conservative choices in cast and crew. There is a trend in Hollywood towards co-financing (over two-thirds of the films Loew S Movie Theater put out Loew S Movie Theater by Warner Bros. in 2000 were joint ventures, up from 10% in 1987).[2] A hopeful director is almost never given the opportunity to get a job on a big-budget studio film unless he or she has significant industry experience in film or television. Also, the studios rarely produce films with unknown actors, particularly in Loew S Movie Theater lead roles. Before the advent of digital alternatives, the cost of professional Loew S Movie Theater film equipment

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and stock was also a hurdle to being able to produce, direct, or Loew S Movie Theater star in a traditional studio Loew S Movie Theater film. The cost of 35 mm film is outpacing inflation: in 2002 alone, film negative

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costs were up 23%, according to Variety.[2]. But the advent of consumer camcorders in 1985, and more importantly, the arrival of high-resolution digital video in the early 1990s, Loew S Movie Theater have lowered the technology barrier to movie production significantly. Both production and

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post-production costs have been significantly lowered; today, the hardware and software for post-production Loew S Movie Theater can be installed in a commodity-based personal computer. Technologies such as DVDs, FireWire connections and non-linear Loew S Movie Theater editing system pro-level software like Adobe Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas and Apple's Final Cut Pro, and

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consumer level software such as Apple's Final Cut Express and iMovie make movie-making relatively inexpensive. Since the introduction of DV technology, the means Loew S Movie Theater of production have become Loew S Movie Theater more democratized. Filmmakers can conceivably shoot

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and edit a movie, create Loew S Movie Theater and edit the sound and music, and mix the final cut on a home computer. However, while Loew S Movie Theater the means of production Loew S Movie Theater may Windows Movie Maker Animated Movie be democratized, financing, distribution, and marketing remain difficult to accomplish outside the traditional system. Loew S Movie Theater Most independent filmmakers rely on film festivals to get their Loew S Movie Theater films noticed and sold for distribution. The arrival of internet-based video outlets such as Loew S Movie Theater YouTube and Veoh has

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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, Loew S Movie Theater but it is produced through open collaborations; its source material Loew S Movie Theater is available under a license which is permissive Loew S Movie Theater enough to allow 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 Loew S Movie Theater film Main article: Loew S Movie Theater Fan film A fan film is a film or video inspired by a film, television program, comic book

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or a similar source, created by fans rather Loew S Movie Theater than by the source's copyright holders or creators. Fan filmmakers have traditionally been amateurs, but some of Loew S Movie Theater the more notable films have actually been Loew S Movie Theater produced Loew S Movie Theater by professional filmmakers as film Loew S Movie Theater school class projects or as demonstration reels. Fan films vary Loew S Movie Theater 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 Loew S Movie Theater film is Loew S Movie Theater produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by Loew S Movie Theater repeatedly making small changes to a model unit (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the Loew S Movie Theater result with a special animation camera. When the frames are strung together and the resulting film is viewed at a speed of 16 or more frames Loew S Movie Theater per Walkabout Movie second, there is an illusion of continuous movement (due to the persistence of Loew S Movie Theater vision). Generating such a film is very labour intensive and tedious, though the development of

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computer animation has greatly 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 very time-consuming and often very expensive to produce, the majority of animation for TV and movies comes from professional animation studios. However, the field of independent animation has existed at least since the 1950s, with animation being produced Loew S Movie Theater by independent Loew S Movie Theater studios (and sometimes by a Loew S Movie Theater single person). Several Sterling Il Movie Theaters independent animation producers have gone on to enter the professional animation industry. Limited animation is a way of increasing production and decreasing costs of animation by using "short cuts" in the animation process. Loew S Movie Theater This Loew S Movie Theater method was pioneered by UPA and popularized by Loew S Movie Theater Hanna-Barbera, and adapted by other studios Loew S Movie Theater as cartoons moved from movie theaters to television.[3] Although most

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animation studios are now Loew S Movie Theater using digital technologies Loew S Movie Theater in their productions, Loew S Movie Theater there is a specific style of animation that depends on 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 Loew S Movie Theater is initially Loew S Movie Theater produced, a feature film is often Loew S Movie Theater shown to audiences in a movie Loew S Movie Theater theater or cinema. The first theater designed exclusively for cinema opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1905.[4] Thousands of such theaters were built or converted Loew S Movie Theater from existing facilities within a few

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years.[5] In the United States, Loew S Movie Theater these theaters came to be known as nickelodeons, because Loew S Movie Theater admission typically cost a nickel (five cents). Typically, one film is the featured presentation (or feature film). Before the 1970s, there Loew S Movie Theater were Loew S Movie Theater "double features"; typically, a high quality "A picture" rented by an independent theater for a Loew S Movie Theater lump sum, and a "B picture" Loew S Movie Theater of lower quality rented for Loew S Movie Theater 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 feature films were made to be shown in movie theaters. The development of television has allowed films to be broadcast to larger audiences, usually after the film is no longer being shown in theaters. Recording technology has Loew S Movie Theater also enabled consumers Loew S Movie Theater to rent or Loew S Movie Theater buy copies of films on VHS or Loew S Movie Theater DVD

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(and the older formats of laserdisc, VCD and Loew S Movie Theater SelectaVision � see also videodisc), and Internet downloads may be available and have started to become revenue sources for the film companies. Some films are now Loew S Movie Theater made specifically for these other venues, being released as made-for-TV movies or direct-to-video movies. The production values on Loew S Movie Theater these films are often considered to be of inferior quality compared to theatrical releases in similar genres, and indeed, some films Loew S Movie Theater that are rejected by their own studios upon completion are distributed through these markets. The movie theater pays an average of about Loew S Movie Theater 50-55% of its ticket sales to the movie studio, as film rental fees.[6] The actual percentage starts with a number higher Loew S Movie Theater than that, and decreases as the duration Loew S Movie Theater of a film's showing continues, Loew S Movie Theater as an incentive to theaters Loew S Movie Theater to keep movies in the theater longer. However, today's barrage of highly marketed movies ensures Loew S Movie Theater that most movies are shown in first-run theaters for Loew S Movie Theater less than 8 weeks. There are a Loew S Movie Theater few movies every year that defy this rule, often limited-release movies Loew S Movie Theater that start in only a few theaters and actually Loew S Movie Theater grow their theater count through Loew S Movie Theater good Loew S Movie Theater word-of-mouth and Loew S Movie Theater reviews. According to Loew S Movie Theater a 2000 study by ABN AMRO, about 26% of Hollywood movie studios' Loew S Movie Theater worldwide income came from box office ticket sales; 46% came from VHS Loew S Movie Theater and DVD sales to consumers; and 28% came from television (broadcast, cable, and

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pay-per-view).[6] Future state While Loew S Movie Theater motion

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picture films have been around for more than a century, Loew S Movie Theater film is still a relative newcomer in the pantheon of fine arts. In the 1950s, when television became widely available, Loew S Movie Theater industry analysts predicted the demise of local movie theaters. Despite Loew S Movie Theater competition from television's increasing technological sophistication over Loew S Movie Theater the 1960s and 1970s, such as the development of color television and large screens, motion Loew S Movie Theater picture cinemas Loew S Movie Theater continued. In the 1980s, when the widespread availability of inexpensive videocassette recorders enabled people to select films for home Loew S Movie Theater viewing, industry analysts again wrongly predicted the death of the local cinemas. In the 1990s and 2000s the development of digital DVD Loew S Movie Theater players, home theater amplification systems with surround sound and subwoofers, and large LCD or plasma screens enabled people to select Loew S Movie Theater and view films at home with

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greatly improved audio and visual Loew S Movie Theater reproduction. These new technologies provided audio and visual that in the past only local cinemas had been Loew S Movie Theater able to provide: Loew S Movie Theater a large, clear widescreen presentation of a film with a full-range, high-quality multi-speaker sound system. Once again Loew S Movie Theater industry analysts predicted the demise of the local cinema. Local cinemas will be changing in the 2000s and moving towards digital screens, Loew S Movie Theater a new Loew S Movie Theater approach which will allow for easier and quicker distribution of films (via satellite or hard disks), Loew S Movie Theater a development which may give local theaters a reprieve from their predicted Loew S Movie Theater demise. The cinema now faces a new challenge from home video by the likes of a new DVD format Loew S Movie Theater Blu-ray, which can provide full HD 1080p video playback at near cinema quality. Video formats are gradually Loew S Movie Theater 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 Loew S Movie Theater the paltry 330?480 Loew S Movie Theater offered by the Loew S Movie Theater first home video standard VHS. The maximum resolutions that

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film currently offers are Loew S Movie Theater 2485?2970 or 1420?3390, UHD, a future digital video format, will offer a massive resolution of 7680?4320, surpassing all current film resolutions. Loew S Movie Theater The only viable competitor to these Loew S Movie Theater new innovations is IMAX which can play film content Loew S Movie Theater at an extreme 10000?7000 resolution. Despite the rise of all new technologies, the development of the home video market and a surge of online piracy, 2007 was a record year in film that showed the highest ever box-office grosses. Many expected film to suffer Loew S Movie Theater as a result of the effects listed Loew S Movie Theater above but it has flourished, strengthening film studio expectations for the future.