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  2. Efficiency - Wikipedia

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    Efficiency is the often measurable ability to avoid making mistakes or wasting materials, energy, efforts, money, and time while performing a task.In a more general sense, it is the ability to do things well, successfully, and without waste.

  3. Film d'auteur - Wikipedia

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    The notion of film d'auteur was born in France in the 1950s when critics influenced by the theories of Louis Delluc, Alexandre Astruc and André Bazin, who constituted the following Nouvelle Vague – notably François Truffaut – called their wish a cinema breaking the academicism of their elders (for example Jean Delannoy and Claude Autant-Lara) and inspired by American filmmakers such as ...

  4. Efficiency (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    The relative efficiency of two unbiased estimators is defined as [12] (,) = ⁡ [()] ⁡ [()] = ⁡ ⁡ ()Although is in general a function of , in many cases the dependence drops out; if this is so, being greater than one would indicate that is preferable, regardless of the true value of .

  5. Debutante - Wikipedia

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    Debutantes at the Chrysanthemum Ball in Munich (2012) A debutante, also spelled débutante (/ ˈ d ɛ b j ʊ t ɑː n t / DEB-yuu-tahnt; from French: débutante, ' female beginner '), or deb is a young woman of aristocratic or upper-class family background who has reached maturity and is presented to society at a formal "debut" (UK: / ˈ d eɪ b juː, ˈ d ɛ b juː / DAY-bew, DEB-yoo, US: / d ...

  6. Cinéma vérité - Wikipedia

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    Cinéma vérité (UK: / ˌ s ɪ n ɪ m ə ˈ v ɛr ɪ t eɪ /, US: /-ˌ v ɛr ɪ ˈ t eɪ /, French: [sinema veʁite] lit. ' truth cinema ' or ' truthful cinema ') is a style of documentary filmmaking developed by Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch, inspired by Dziga Vertov's theory about Kino-Pravda.

  7. Filmmaking - Wikipedia

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    Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a motion picture is produced.Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, beginning with an initial story, idea, or commission.

  8. Film - Wikipedia

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    A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, [a] is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, synchronized with sound and (less commonly) other sensory stimulations. [1]

  9. Film à clef - Wikipedia

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    8½ (1963) is based on Federico Fellini's experience suffering from "director's block." [3]8 Mile (2002) is inspired by the life of Eminem.; 21 (2008); Adaptation (2002); while parts of the film are adapted from Susan Orlean's non-fiction book The Orchid Thief, most of the film is a heavily fictionalized account of Charlie Kaufman's difficulty in adapting the book into a screenplay.