Sound is transmitted through gases, plasma, and liquids as longitudinal waves, also called compression waves. Through solids, however, it can be transmitted as both longitudinal waves and transverse w ...
In popular myth, the word documentary was coined by Scottish documentarian John Grierson in his review of Robert Flaherty's film Moana (1926), published in the New York Sun on 8 February 1926, written ...
Cultural artifact (or social artifact) is a term used in the social sciences, particularly anthropology, ethnology, and sociology for anything created by humans which gives information about the cultu ...
In 1881, it was noted during experiments in transmitting sound from the Paris Opera that it was possible to follow the movement of singers on the stage if earpieces connected to different microphones ...
See also: History of sound recordingLong before sound was being recorded, music was being recorded, first by means of written notation, then also in forms that made it possible for the music to be pla ...
Analog sound-on-film recording The most prevalent current method of recording analogue sound on a film print is by stereo variable-area (SVA) recording, a technique first used in the mid-1970s as Dolb ...
Red announced their first camera at NAB 2006, the Red One. It was released in 2007.Initial order process With a lot of advance promotion the Red One was accused of being vaporware. The camera was high ...
Projectors are classified by the size of the film used, i.e. the film format. Typical film sizes:8 mm Main article: 8 mm filmLong used for home movies before the video camera, this uses double sprocke ...
The first movie projector was the Zoopraxiscope, invented by British photographer Eadweard Muybridge in 1879. The zoopraxiscope projected images from rotating glass disks in rapid succession to give t ...
A television genre or style of art television has been identified, which shares some of the same traits of art films. Television shows such as David Lynch's Twin Peaks series and BBC's The Singing Det ...
Antecedents: 1910–1920s A poster for Eisenstein's film The Battleship PotemkinThe antecedents of art films included D. W. Griffith's film Intolerance (1916) and the works of Sergei Eisenstein. Eisens ...
Currently, the largest markets by box office are United States, China, and Japan; and the countries with the largest number of film productions are India, Nigeria and the United States. Other centers ...
Parts 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. F ...
Visual effects are often integral to a movie's story and appeal. Although most visual effects work is completed during post-production, it usually must be carefully planned and choreographed in pre-pr ...
The screen is blanked to a background color, such as red. Then, a goat is drawn on the screen. Next, the screen is blanked, but the goat is re-drawn or duplicated slightly to the left of its original ...
