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  2. Glossary of motion picture terms - Wikipedia

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    Film stock made of nitrate, acetate, or polyester bases is the traditional medium for capturing the numerous frames of a motion picture, widely used until the emergence of digital film in the late 20th century. film theory film transition film treatment filmmaking. Sometimes used interchangeably with film production.

  3. Category:Film and video terminology - Wikipedia

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    Back-to-back film production; Bankable star; Beat (filmmaking) Beatscript; Behind-the-scenes; Below-the-line (filmmaking) Billing (performing arts) Black and white hat symbolism in film; Blackout gag; Blaxploitation; Blockbuster (entertainment) Blocking (stage) Blooper; Bottle episode; Bouncing ball (music) Box office; Box-office bomb ...

  4. Scleroscope - Wikipedia

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    A scleroscope is a device used to measure rebound hardness. It consists of a steel ball dropped from a fixed height. The device was invented in 1907. As an improvement on this rough method, the Leeb Rebound Hardness Test, invented in the 1970s, uses the ratio of impact and rebound velocities (as measured by a magnetic inducer) to determine hardness

  5. Glossary of video terms - Wikipedia

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    This glossary defines terms that are used in the document "Defining Video Quality Requirements: A Guide for Public Safety", developed by the Video Quality in Public Safety (VQIPS) Working Group. It contains terminology and explanations of concepts relevant to the video industry.

  6. Cinema - Wikipedia

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    Film or movie, a series of still images that create the illusion of moving image Film industry, the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking; Filmmaking, the process of making a film; Movie theater (US), called a cinema elsewhere, a building in which films are shown

  7. Cinema 1: The Movement Image - Wikipedia

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    The most familiar type of affective shot is of the face. The close-up. Some films, such as Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) are composed from a series of close-ups, and in this way create an affection-image film. The affection-image film is therefore a film which foregrounds emotions: desires, wants, needs.

  8. Iris shot - Wikipedia

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    An iris shot is a technique used in silent film and television sometimes to emphasize a detail of a scene above all others, more commonly to end or open a scene. [1] [2] The film camera's iris is slowly closed or opened, so that what is visible on film appears in a decreasing or increasing circle, surrounded by black.

  9. Film theory - Wikipedia

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    Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal essential attributes of motion pictures; [1] and that now provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and society at large. [2]