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