Main article: KinetoscopeIn 1880 George Eastman began to manufacture gelatin dry photographic plates in Rochester, New York. Along with W. H. Walker, Eastman invented a holder for a roll of picture-ca ...
Movie film formats Further information: List of film formatsDigital camera formats Further information: Image sensor formatStill photography film formats Multiple image Main article: List of film form ...
Nitrate film base was the first transparent flexible plasticized base commercially available, thanks to celluloid developments by John Carbutt, Hannibal Goodwin, and Eastman Kodak in the 1880s. Eastma ...
Polyesters as thermoplastics may change shape after the application of heat. While combustible at high temperatures, polyesters tend to shrink away from flames and self-extinguish upon ignition. Polye ...
When part of a salt, the formula of the acetate ion is written as CH3CO2?, C2H3O2?, or CH3COO?. Chemists abbreviate acetate as OAc? or AcO?. Thus, HOAc is the abbreviation for acetic acid, NaOAc ...
After 1660 in England, when women first started to appear on stage, an actor or actress were initially used interchangeably for female performers, but later, influenced by the French actrice, actress ...
Although a range of different shutter devices have been used during the development of the camera only two types have been widely used and remain in use today.The Leaf shutter or more precisely the in ...
The Director is considered to be a separate entity, not within the film crew's departmental structure.DirectorThe Director is responsible for overseeing the creative aspects of a film, including contr ...
Story rights: The right to produce a film based on a play, novel, or video game, or as a remake or sequel can cost anything from a couple of thousand (e.g., Leaving Las Vegas) to over $10 million (e.g ...
If a distributor is working with a theatrical exhibitor, the distributor secures a written contract stipulating the amount of the gross ticket sales the exhibitor will be allowed to retain (usually a ...
Post-production is, in fact, many different processes grouped under one name. These typically include:Video editing the picture of a television program using an edit decision list (EDL)Writing, (re)re ...
Main article: Filmmaking Pre-productionIn filmmaking and video production, pre-production formally begins once a project has been greenlit. At this stage, finalizing preparations for production go int ...
In production, the video production/film is created and shot. More crew will be recruited at this stage, such as the property master, script supervisor, assistant directors, stills photographer, pictu ...
Film production involves, several major stages:Development — The first stage in which the ideas for the film are created, rights to books/plays are bought etc., and the screenplay is written. Financi ...
Mothlight is a silent "collage film" that incorporates "real world elements." Brakhage produced the film without the use of a camera, using what he then described as "a whole new film technique." Brak ...
