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  2. Sound film - Wikipedia

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    A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before sound motion pictures became commercially practical.

  3. Glossary of motion picture terms - Wikipedia

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    A list of motion pictures related by some criteria, e.g. the list of films a certain actor has appeared in, or that a certain director has directed. filter fine cut fisheye lens flashback flashforward flicker fusion threshold floodlight focal length focus focus puller Foley artist follow focus follow shot followspot light forced perspective

  4. Ambience (sound recording) - Wikipedia

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    In filmmaking, ambience (also known as atmosphere, atmos, or background) consists of the sounds of a given location or space. [1] It is the opposite of "silence". Ambience is similar to presence, but is distinguished by the existence of explicit background noise in ambience recordings, as opposed to the perceived "silence" of presence recordings.

  5. Film styles - Wikipedia

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    Film style categorizes films based on the techniques used in the making of the film, such as cinematography or lighting. Two films may be from the same genre, but may well look different as a result of the film style. For example, Independence Day and Cloverfield are both sci-fi, action films about the possible end of the world.

  6. List of film sound systems - Wikipedia

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    Sound mix list on the Internet Movie Database Index of early sound films of the silent era, from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett The origins of the Firm "Tobis-Klang" The first release that used this system was the partially silent German film Melodie der Welt .

  7. Sound - Wikipedia

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    For example, sound moving through wind will have its speed of propagation increased by the speed of the wind if the sound and wind are moving in the same direction. If the sound and wind are moving in opposite directions, the speed of the sound wave will be decreased by the speed of the wind. The viscosity of the medium.

  8. Formalist film theory - Wikipedia

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    Formalist film theory is an approach to film theory that is focused on the formal or technical elements of a film: i.e., the lighting, scoring, sound and set design, use of color, shot composition, and editing. This approach was proposed by Hugo Münsterberg, Rudolf Arnheim, Sergei Eisenstein, and Béla Balázs. [1]

  9. Sound effect - Wikipedia

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    The conjectural sound principle applies even to happenstance sounds, such as tires squealing, doorknobs turning or people walking. If the sound editor wants to communicate that a driver is in a hurry to leave, they will cut the sound of tires squealing when the car accelerates from a stop; even if the car is on a dirt road, the effect will work ...