Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as Already Dead Movie an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films Already Dead Movie are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques Already Dead Movie or Already Dead Movie 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 of popular entertainment and Already Dead Movie a powerful method for educating Already Dead Movie � or indoctrinating � citizens. The visual elements of Movie Theater Laurie Mo cinema gives motion pictures Already Dead Movie a universal Already Dead Movie power of communication. Some Already Dead Movie films have become Already Dead Movie popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles that translate the dialogue.
Traditional films are made up of Already Dead Movie a series of Pathfinder Movie individual images called frames. When these images are shown Already Dead Movie rapidly in succession, a viewer has the illusion that motion is occurring. The viewer cannot see the flickering between frames due to an effect known as Already Dead Movie persistence of vision, whereby the eye retains a Already Dead Movie
The origin of the name "film" comes from Already Dead Movie the fact that photographic film (also called film stock) had historically been the primary medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other Already Dead Movie 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 include the big screen, the silver Already Dead Movie screen, the Already Dead Movie cinema, and the movies.In Already Dead Movie the 1860s, mechanisms for producing Already Dead Movie artificially created, two-dimensional images 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 pictures to appear to be moving, Already Dead Movie a phenomenon called persistence of Already Dead Movie vision. Naturally, the images needed Already Dead Movie to be carefully designed to achieve the desired effect � and the underlying principle Already Dead Movie became the basis for the development of film animation.
A frame from Roundhay Garden Scene, the world's earliest film, by Louis Le Already Dead Movie Prince, 1888
With the development of celluloid film for still photography, it became possible to directly capture objects in motion in real time. Early versions of the technology sometimes required a person to look into a viewing machine to see the pictures Already Dead Movie which were separate paper prints attached to a drum turned by a handcrank. The pictures were shown at a variable speed of Already Dead Movie 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 Already Dead Movie development of the motion picture camera Already Dead Movie allowed the individual component Already Dead Movie images to be captured and stored on a single reel, and led quickly to the development of a motion picture projector to Already Dead Movie shine light through the processed and printed Already Dead Movie film and magnify these "moving picture shows" onto a screen for Already Dead Movie an entire audience. Already Dead Movie 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 Already Dead Movie editing or other cinematic techniques.
Ignoring Dickson's early sound Already Dead Movie experiments (1894), commercial Already Dead Movie motion pictures were purely visual art Already Dead Movie through the Already Dead Movie late Already Dead Movie 19th century, but Already Dead Movie these innovative silent films had gained a hold on the public Already Dead Movie 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 varying sizes and angles. Other Already Dead Movie techniques such as camera movement were realized as effective ways to Already Dead Movie portray a story on film. Rather than Already Dead Movie leave the audience in silence, theater owners would hire a Already Dead Movie pianist or organist Already Dead Movie or a full orchestra to Already Dead Movie play music Already Dead Movie fitting the Already Dead Movie mood of the film at Rocky Balboa The Movie any given moment. By Already Dead Movie the early 1920s, most films came with a prepared list of sheet music for Already Dead Movie this purpose, with complete film scores being composed for Already Dead Movie major Already Dead Movie productions.
A shot from Georges Melies Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902), an early narrative film.
The rise of European cinema Already Dead Movie was interrupted Already Dead Movie by the Already Dead Movie breakout of Already Dead Movie World Already Dead Movie War I while the Already Dead Movie film industry in United States flourished with the rise of Hollywood. However in the 1920s, European Already Dead Movie filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, F. W. Murnau, and Fritz Lang, along with American innovator Already Dead Movie D. W. Griffith and the contributions of Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Already Dead Movie others, continued to advance the medium. In the 1920s, new technology allowed Already Dead Movie filmmakers to attach to each film a soundtrack of speech, music and sound effects synchronized with the action on the screen. These Already Dead Movie sound films were initially distinguished by calling them "talking pictures", or talkies.
The next major step in the development Already Dead Movie of cinema was the introduction of so-called "natural" color. While the addition of sound quickly eclipsed silent film and Already Dead Movie theater musicians, color was adopted more gradually as methods evolved making it more Already Dead Movie practical and cost effective to produce "natural color" films. The public Already Dead Movie was relatively Already Dead Movie indifferent to color photography as opposed to black-and-white,[citation needed] but as color processes improved Already Dead Movie and became as affordable as black-and-white film, more and more movies were filmed in color after the end of World War Already Dead Movie II, as the industry in America came to view color as essential to attracting audiences in its competition with television, Already Dead Movie which remained a black-and-white medium until the mid-1960s. By the end of the 1960s, col
Since the decline of the studio Already Dead Movie system in the 1960s, the succeeding decades saw changes in the production and style of film. New Hollywood, French New Already Dead Movie Wave and the rise of film school educated independent filmmakers were all part of the changes the medium Already Dead Movie experienced in the latter Already Dead Movie half of the Already Dead Movie 20th century. Digital technology has been the driving force in change throughout the 1990s and Already Dead Movie into the 21st century.
Theory
Main article: Film theory
Film theory seeks to Already Dead Movie develop concise and systematic concepts that apply to the study of film as art. Already Dead Movie It was started by Ricciotto Canudo's The Birth of the Sixth Art. Formalist film theory, led by Rudolf Arnheim, Bela Balazs, and Siegfried Kracauer, emphasized how film differed from reality, and thus could be considered a valid fine art. Andre Bazin reacted against this theory by arguing Already Dead Movie that film's artistic essence lay in its ability to mechanically reproduce reality not in its differences Already Dead Movie from reality, and this Already Dead Movie gave rise to realist theory. More recent analysis spurred by Lacan's psychoanalysis and Ferdinand de Saussure's semiotics among other things has given rise Already Dead Movie to psychoanalytical film theory, structuralist film theory, feminist film theory and others.
Criticism
Main article: Film Already Dead Movie criticism
Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films. Already Dead Movie 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 Already Dead Movie broadcast media mainly review new releases. Normally they Already Dead Movie only see any given film once and have Already Dead Movie only a day or two to formulate opinions. Despite this, critics have an important impact on films, Already Dead Movie especially those of certain genres. Mass marketed action, horror, and comedy films tend not to be greatly affected by a Already Dead Movie critic's overall judgment of a film. The plot summary and description of a film that makes up the majority of any film review can still have an important impact on whether people Already Dead Movie decide to see Already Dead Movie a film. For prestige films such as most dramas, the influence of reviews is extremely important. Poor reviews will often doom a film to obscurity and financial loss.
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The impact of a reviewer on a Already Dead Movie given film's box office performance is a matter of debate. Some claim that movie marketing is now so intense and well financed that reviewers cannot make an impact against it. However, the cataclysmic Already Dead Movie failure of some heavily-promoted movies which were harshly reviewed, as well as the unexpected success of critically praised independent movies indicates that extreme critical reactions can have considerable influence. Others note that positive film reviews have been shown to spark interest in little-known films. Conversely, there have been several films in which film companies have so little confidence that they refuse to give reviewers an advanced viewing to avoid widespread panning of the Already Dead Movie film. However, this usually backfires as reviewers are wise to the tactic and warn the public Already Dead Movie 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 as film reviewers, and true film Already Dead Movie critics are Already Dead Movie those who take a more academic approach to Already Dead Movie films. This line of work is more often known as Already Dead Movie film theory or film studies. These film critics Already Dead Movie attempt to come Already Dead Movie to understand how film and filming techniques work, and what effect they have on people. Rather than having their works published in newspapers or appear on television, their articles Already Dead Movie are published in Already Dead Movie scholarly Already Dead Movie journals, or sometimes in up-market magazines. They also tend Already Dead Movie to be Already Dead Movie affiliated with colleges or Already Dead Movie universities.
Industry
Main article: Film industry
The making and showing of motion pictures Already Dead Movie became Already Dead Movie a Already Dead Movie source of profit almost as soon as the process was invented. Upon Already Dead Movie seeing how successful Already Dead Movie their new invention, and its product, was in their native France, the Lumieres quickly Already Dead Movie set about touring the Already Dead Movie Continent Already Dead Movie to exhibit the first films privately to royalty and publicly to the masses. In each country, they would normally add new, Already Dead Movie local scenes to their Already Dead Movie catalogue and, quickly enough, found local entrepreneurs in the various countries of Europe to buy their equipment and photograph, export, import and screen additional product commercially. The Oberammergau Passion Play Already Dead Movie of 1898[citation needed] was the first commercial motion Already Dead Movie picture ever produced. Other pictures Malibu Spring Break Showtime Movie soon Already Dead Movie followed, and motion pictures became a separate industry that overshadowed the vaudeville world. Dedicated theaters and companies formed specifically to produce and distribute Already Dead Movie films, while motion picture actors became major celebrities and commanded huge fees for Already Dead Movie their performances. Already by 1917, Already Dead Movie Charlie Chaplin had a contract Already Dead Movie that Already Dead Movie called for an annual Already Dead Movie 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 Already Dead Movie of the world, such as Mumbai-centered Bollywood, the Indian film industry's Hindi cinema which produces the largest Already Dead Movie number of films in the world.[1] Whether the ten thousand-plus feature length films a year produced by the Already Dead Movie Valley Already Dead Movie pornographic film industry should qualify for this title is the source of some debate.[citation needed] Though the expense involved in making movies has led cinema production Already Dead Movie to concentrate under the auspices of movie studios, recent advances in Already Dead Movie affordable film making equipment have allowed independent film productions to flourish.
Profit is a key Already Dead Movie force Already Dead Movie in Already Dead Movie the industry, due to the Already Dead Movie costly and risky nature of filmmaking; Already Dead Movie many films have large cost overruns, a notorious example Already Dead Movie being Kevin Costner's Waterworld. Yet many filmmakers strive to create works of lasting social significance. The Academy Awards (also known as "the Oscars") are the most prominent film awards in the United States, providing recognition each year to films, ostensibly based on their artistic merits.
There is also a large industry for educational and instructional films made in lieu of or in addition to lectures and texts.
Preview
A preview performance refers to a showing of a movie to a select audience, usually for the purposes of corporate promotions, before Already Dead Movie the public film premiere itself. Previews are sometimes used to judge audience reaction, which if unexpectedly negative, may result in Already Dead Movie recutting or even refilming certain sections. (cf Audience response.)
Trailer
Main article: Trailer (film)
Trailers or previews are film Already Dead Movie advertisements for films that will be exhibited in the future Already Dead Movie at a cinema, on whose screen they are shown. The Already Dead Movie term "trailer" comes from their having originally been shown at the end of a film programme. That practice Already Dead Movie did not last long, because patrons tended to leave the theater after the films ended, but the Already Dead Movie name has stuck. Trailers are now Already Dead Movie 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 Already Dead Movie crew required Already Dead Movie during filmmaking. Many Already Dead Movie Hollywood adventure films need Already Dead Movie computer generated Already Dead Movie imagery (CGI), created by dozens of 3D modellers, animators, rotoscopers and compositors. However, a low-budget, independent film may be made with a skeleton Already Dead Movie crew, often paid very little. Also, an open source film Already Dead Movie may be produced Already Dead Movie through open, collaborative processes. Filmmaking takes place all over the world using different technologies, styles of acting and genre, and is produced in a variety of economic contexts that range from state-sponsored documentary in China to profit-oriented Already Dead Movie movie making within the American studio system.
This production cycle typically takes three Already Dead Movie years. Already Dead Movie The first year is taken up with development. The second year comprises preproduction and production. The third year, post-production and distribution.
Crew
Main article: Film crew
A film crew Already Dead Movie is a group of people hired by Already Dead Movie a film company, employed during the "production" or "photography" phase, for the purpose of producing a film or Already Dead Movie motion picture. Crew are distinguished from cast, the actors Already Dead Movie who appear Already Dead Movie in front of the camera or provide voices for characters in the film. Already Dead Movie The crew interacts with but is also distinct from the production Already Dead Movie staff, Already Dead Movie consisting Already Dead Movie of producers, managers, company representatives, their assistants, and those whose primary responsibility falls in pre-production or post-production phases, such as writers and editors. 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 Already Dead Movie cooperation between the departments. Other than acting, the crew handles everything in the photography phase: props and costumes, Already Dead Movie shooting, sound, electrics (i.e., lights), sets, and production special effects. Caterers (known in Already Dead Movie the film industry as "craft Already Dead Movie services") are usually not considered part of the crew.
Technology
Film stock consists of transparent celluloid, acetate, or polyester base coated with an Already Dead Movie emulsion containing light-sensitive chemicals. Cellulose nitrate was the first type of film base used to record Already Dead Movie motion pictures, 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 Already Dead Movie still shot on (and distributed to theaters) as 35 mm prints.
Originally moving picture film was shot and projected at various speeds using hand-cranked cameras and projectors; though 1000 frames per Already Dead Movie minute (16? frame/s) is Already Dead Movie generally Already Dead Movie cited Already Dead Movie as a standard silent speed, research indicates most films were shot Already Dead Movie between 16 frame/s and 23 frame/s and projected from 18 frame/s Already Dead Movie on up (often reels included instructions on how Already Dead Movie fast Already Dead Movie each scene should be shown) [1]. Already Dead Movie When sound film was introduced in the late Already Dead Movie 1920s, a constant Already Dead Movie speed was required for the sound head. 24 frames per second was chosen because it was the slowest (and thus cheapest) speed which allowed for sufficient Already Dead Movie sound quality. Improvements since the late 19th century include the mechanization of cameras � allowing them to record at a consistent Already Dead Movie speed, quiet camera Already Dead Movie design � allowing sound recorded on-set to be usable without requiring large "blimps" Already Dead Movie to encase the camera, the invention of more sophisticated filmstocks and lenses, allowing directors to film in increasingly dim conditions, and Already Dead Movie the development of Already Dead Movie synchronized sound, allowing sound to be recorded at exactly the same speed Already Dead Movie as its corresponding action. The soundtrack can be recorded Already Dead Movie separately from shooting the film, but for live-action pictures many parts of the soundtrack are usually recorded simultaneously.
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As Already Dead Movie a medium, film is not limited to motion pictures, since the technology developed as the Already Dead Movie basis for photography. It can be used to present a progressive sequence of still images in the form of Already Dead Movie a slideshow. Film Already Dead Movie has also been incorporated Already Dead Movie into Already Dead Movie multimedia presentations, and often has importance as primary historical documentation. However, historic films have problems in terms of preservation and storage, Already Dead Movie and the motion picture industry is exploring many alternatives. Most movies on cellulose nitrate base have been copied onto modern safety films. Some studios save color films through the use of separation masters � three B&W negatives each exposed through red, Already Dead Movie green, Already Dead Movie or blue filters (essentially a reverse of the Technicolor process). Digital methods Already Dead Movie have also been used to restore films, although their continued obsolescence cycle makes them (as of 2006) a poor choice for long-term preservation. Film preservation of decaying film stock is a matter Already Dead Movie of concern to both film historians and archivists, and to companies interested in preserving Already Dead Movie their Already Dead Movie existing products in order to make them available to future generations (and thereby increase revenue). Preservation is generally Already Dead Movie a higher-concern for nitrate and single-strip color Already Dead Movie films, due to their high decay Already Dead Movie rates; black and white films on safety bases and color Already Dead Movie films preserved on Technicolor imbibition prints tend to keep up much better, assuming proper handling Already Dead Movie and storage.
Some films in recent decades Already Dead Movie have been recorded using analog video Already Dead Movie technology Already Dead Movie similar to that Already Dead Movie used in television production. Modern digital Already Dead Movie video cameras and digital projectors are gaining ground as well. These approaches are extremely beneficial to moviemakers, especially because footage can Already Dead Movie be evaluated and edited without waiting for Already Dead Movie the film stock Already Dead Movie to be processed. Yet the migration is gradual, and as of 2005 most major motion pictures Already Dead Movie are still recorded on film.
Independent
Main article: Already Dead Movie Independent film
The Lumiere Brothers
Independent filmmaking often takes place outside of Hollywood, or other Already Dead Movie major studio systems. Already Dead Movie An independent film Already Dead Movie (or indie film) is a film initially Already Dead Movie produced Movie Times Sacramento without financing or distribution from a major Already Dead Movie movie studio. Creative, business, and technological reasons have Already Dead Movie all contributed to the growth of the indie film scene in the late Already Dead Movie 20th and early 21st century.
On the business side, the costs of Already Dead Movie big-budget studio films also leads to conservative choices in cast and Already Dead Movie crew. There is a trend in Hollywood towards co-financing (over two-thirds of the films put out by Warner Bros. in 2000 were joint ventures, Already Dead Movie up Movie Independence Day from 10% in 1987).[2] A hopeful director is almost never given the Already Dead Movie opportunity to Already Dead Movie get a job on a big-budget Already Dead Movie studio film unless he or she Already Dead Movie has Already Dead Movie significant industry experience in film or Already Dead Movie television. Also, Already Dead Movie the studios rarely produce films with unknown actors, particularly in lead roles.
Before the Already Dead Movie advent of digital Already Dead Movie alternatives, the cost of professional film equipment and stock was also a hurdle to being able to produce, direct, or star in a Already Dead Movie traditional studio film. The cost of 35 Already Dead Movie mm film is outpacing inflation: in 2002 alone, film negative costs were up 23%, according to Already Dead Movie Variety.[2].
But the advent of consumer camcorders in Already Dead Movie 1985, and more importantly, the arrival of high-resolution digital video in the early 1990s, have lowered the technology barrier to movie production significantly. Both production and post-production costs have been significantly lowered; today, the hardware and software for post-production can be installed Already Dead Movie in a commodity-based personal computer. Technologies such as DVDs, FireWire connections and non-linear editing system pro-level software like Adobe Premiere Already Dead Movie 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 introduction of DV technology, the means of production have become Already Dead Movie more Already Dead Movie democratized. Filmmakers can conceivably shoot and edit a movie, create and edit the sound and music, and mix the final cut on a home computer. However, while the Already Dead Movie means of production may Already Dead Movie 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 Already Dead Movie for distribution. The Already Dead Movie arrival of internet-based video outlets Already Dead Movie such as YouTube and Veoh has further changed the film making landscape in ways that are Already Dead Movie still to be determined.
Open content film
Main article: Open content film
An open content film is much like an independent film, but it is produced through open collaborations; its Already Dead Movie source material is available under a license which is permissive enough to allow other parties to create fan fiction Already Dead Movie or derivative works, than a traditional copyright. Like Already Dead Movie independent filmmaking, open source filmmaking takes place Already Dead Movie outside of Hollywood, or other major studio systems.
Fan film
Main article: Fan film
A fan film is a film or video Already Dead Movie inspired by a film, television program, comic book or a similar Already Dead Movie source, created by fans rather Already Dead Movie than by the source's copyright holders or creators. Fan filmmakers have traditionally been amateurs, but some of Already Dead Movie the more notable films have actually been produced by professional filmmakers as film school Already Dead Movie class projects or as demonstration reels. Fan films vary tremendously in length, from short faux-teaser trailers for non-existent motion pictures Already Dead Movie to Already Dead Movie rarer full-length motion pictures
Animation is the technique in which each frame Already Dead Movie of a film is Already Dead Movie produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, Already Dead Movie or by photographing a drawn image, Anupama Movie Songs or by repeatedly making small changes to a model unit Already Dead Movie (see claymation and stop motion), and Already Dead Movie then photographing the result with Already Dead Movie a special animation camera. When the Already Dead Movie frames are strung together and the resulting film is viewed at a speed of Already Dead Movie 16 or more frames per Already Dead Movie second, there is an Already Dead Movie illusion of continuous movement (due to Already Dead Movie the Already Dead Movie persistence of vision). Generating such a film is very labour intensive and Already Dead Movie tedious, though the development Already Dead Movie of 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.
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Because animation is very time-consuming and often very expensive to produce, the Coldwater Mi Movie Theater majority of animation for TV and movies comes from professional animation studios. However, the field of independent Already Dead Movie animation has existed at Already Dead Movie least since the 1950s, with animation being produced by independent Already Dead Movie studios (and sometimes by a Already Dead Movie single person). Several independent animation producers have gone on to enter the professional animation industry.
Limited animation is a way of increasing production Already Dead Movie and decreasing costs of animation by using "short cuts" in the animation process. This method was pioneered by UPA and popularized by Hanna-Barbera, and adapted by other studios as cartoons moved from Already Dead Movie movie theaters to television.[3]
Although most animation studios are now Already Dead Movie using digital technologies in their productions, there is a specific style of animation that depends Already Dead Movie on film. Cameraless animation, Already Dead Movie made famous by Already Dead Movie moviemakers like Norman McLaren, Len Lye and Stan Brakhage, is painted and Already Dead Movie drawn directly onto pieces of film, and then run Already Dead Movie through Already Dead Movie 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 designed exclusively for cinema opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1905.[4] Thousands of Already Dead Movie such theaters were built or Already Dead Movie 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 is the featured presentation (or Already Dead Movie feature film). Before Already Dead Movie the 1970s, there were "double features"; typically, a high quality "A picture" Already Dead Movie rented Already Dead Movie by an independent theater for a Already Dead Movie lump sum, Already Dead Movie and a "B picture" of lower quality rented for a percentage of the gross receipts. Today, the bulk of the material shown before the feature film consists of previews for Already Dead Movie upcoming movies and paid advertisements (also known as trailers or "The Twenty").
Historically, all mass marketed feature films were made to be Already Dead Movie 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 also Already Dead Movie enabled consumers to rent or buy copies of Already Dead Movie films on VHS or DVD (and the older formats of laserdisc, VCD and SelectaVision � see Already Dead Movie also videodisc), and Internet downloads may be available and have started to become revenue sources for Already Dead Movie the film companies. Some films are now made specifically for these Already Dead Movie other Already Dead Movie venues, being released as made-for-TV movies or direct-to-video movies. The production values on these films are often Already Dead Movie considered to be of inferior quality compared to theatrical releases in similar genres, and indeed, some films that are rejected by their Already Dead Movie own studios upon completion are distributed Already Dead Movie through these markets.
The Already Dead Movie movie theater pays an average of about 50-55% of its ticket sales to the Already Dead Movie movie studio, as film rental fees.[6] The actual percentage starts with a number higher than that, and decreases as the duration of a film's showing continues, as an incentive to theaters to keep movies in Already Dead Movie the theater longer. However, today's barrage of highly marketed movies ensures that Already Dead Movie most movies are shown Already Dead Movie in first-run theaters for less than 8 weeks. There are a few movies every year that defy this rule, Already Dead Movie often limited-release movies that start in Already Dead Movie only a few theaters and actually grow their theater count through good word-of-mouth and Already Dead Movie reviews. According to a 2000 study by Already Dead Movie ABN AMRO, about 26% of Hollywood movie studios' Already Dead Movie worldwide income came from box office ticket sales; 46% Already Dead Movie came from VHS and Already Dead Movie DVD sales to Already Dead Movie consumers; and 28% came Already Dead Movie from Already Dead Movie television (broadcast, Already Dead Movie cable, and pay-per-view).[6]
Future state
While motion Already Dead Movie picture films have been around for more than a Already Dead Movie 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 Already Dead Movie theaters. Despite competition from Already Dead Movie television's increasing Already Dead Movie technological sophistication Already Dead Movie over the 1960s and Already Dead Movie 1970s, such as the development of color television and large screens, motion picture cinemas continued. In the 1980s, when the widespread availability of inexpensive videocassette recorders enabled people to select films for home viewing, industry analysts again wrongly predicted the death of the local cinemas.
In Already Dead Movie the 1990s Already Dead Movie and Already Dead Movie 2000s the development of digital DVD players, home theater amplification systems Already Dead Movie with Already Dead Movie surround Private Lessons Movie sound and subwoofers, Already Dead Movie and large LCD or plasma screens enabled people to select and view films Already Dead Movie at home 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: a large, Already Dead Movie clear widescreen presentation of a film with a full-range, high-quality multi-speaker sound Already Dead Movie system. Once again industry analysts predicted the demise of the local cinema. Local cinemas will be changing in Already Dead Movie the 2000s and moving towards Already Dead Movie digital screens, a new approach which will allow for easier and quicker distribution of films (via satellite Already Dead Movie or hard disks), a development which may give local theaters a reprieve Initial D The Movie from their predicted demise.
The cinema now faces a new challenge from home video by the likes of a new DVD format Already Dead Movie Blu-ray, Already Dead Movie which can provide full HD 1080p video playback Already Dead Movie at near Already Dead Movie cinema quality. Video formats are gradually catching up with the resolutions and quality that film Already Dead Movie offers, Already Dead Movie 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 Top Action Movie home video standard VHS. The maximum resolutions that film currently offers are 2485?2970 or 1420?3390, Already Dead Movie UHD, Already Dead Movie a future digital video Already Dead Movie format, will offer a massive resolution of 7680?4320, surpassing all current film resolutions. The only viable competitor to these new Already Dead Movie innovations is IMAX which can play film content 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 Already Dead Movie record year in film that showed the highest ever box-office grosses. Many Already Dead Movie expected film to suffer as a result of the effects listed above but it has flourished, strengthening film studio expectations for the future. |
