The word cheese comes from Latin caseus, from which the modern word casein is also derived. The earliest source is from the proto-Indo-European root *kwat-, which means "to ferment, become sour".More ...
The legal status of pornography varies widely from country to country. Most countries allow at least some form of pornography. In some countries, softcore pornography is considered tame enough to be s ...
The word is similar to the modern Greek πορνογραφ?α (pornographia), which derives from the Greek words π?ρνη (pornē "prostitute" and πορνε?α porneia "prostitution"), and γρ? ...
The term "genre" is much used in the history and criticism of visual art, but in art history has meanings that overlap rather confusingly. Genre painting is a term for paintings where the main subject ...
Los Angeles has a Subtropical-Mediterranean climate (K?ppen climate classification Csb on the coast, Csa inland), and receives just enough annual precipitation to avoid either K?ppen's BSh or BSk (s ...
Previews are a set of public performances of a theatrical presentation that precede its official opening. The purpose of previews is to allow the director and crew to identify problems and opportuniti ...
A film release refers to the authorization by the owner of a completed film to a public exhibition of the film. The exhibition may be in theatres or for home viewing. A film's release date and the met ...
Agents in the sales process can represent either of two parties in the sales process; for example:Sales broker, Seller agency, seller agent, seller representative: This is a traditional role where the ...
Opera houses staged two operas together for the sake of providing long performance for the audience. This was related to one-act or two-act short operas that were otherwise commercially hard to stage ...
Digital media playback of hi-resolution 2K files has at least a 20-year history with early RAIDs feeding custom frame buffer systems with large memories. Content was usually restricted to several minu ...
In commercial movie theaters, the screen is a reflective surface that may be either aluminized (for high contrast in moderate ambient light) or a white surface with small glass beads (for high brillia ...
Main article: Test screeningFor early edits of a film, informal test screenings are shown to small target audiences to judge if a film will require editing, reshooting or rewriting. At this stage the ...
In 1978, Sterling Van Wagenen and Charles Gary Allison, with Chairperson Robert Redford, (veteran of New Hollywood and star of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) founded the Utah/US Film Festival in ...
The Edison Trust Main article: Edison TrustIn 1908, the Motion Picture Patents Company or "Edison Trust" was formed as a trust. The Trust was a cartel that held a monopoly on film production and distr ...
Longer and shorter films coexisted with similar popularity throughout the early days of film. However, comedy short films were produced in large numbers compared to lengthy features such as D.W. Griff ...
