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3 days ago · A film, also called a movie or a motion picture, is a series of still photographs on film projected onto a screen using light in rapid succession. The optical phenomenon known as persistence of vision gives the illusion of actual, smooth, and continuous movement.
What is Cinema? Is it the same as a movie or film? Does it include digital video, broadcast content, streaming media? Is it a highbrow term reserved only for European and art house feature films?
v. t. e. A film ( British English) – also called a movie ( American English ), motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick – is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.
2 days ago · history of film, history of cinema, a popular form of mass media, from the 19th century to the present. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.)
New movies from Steven Spielberg, James Gray, Joanna Hogg, and Alejandro González Iñárritu ask tough questions about their own pasts—and remind us of cinema’s power as a medium for memories.
Feb 25, 2022 · On that fateful day, in showing their film to a public audience, they marked a milestone in history that has come to be known as the day cinema was invented. But who were the Lumière brothers? What was that first film ever shown to the public?
Jun 27, 2024 · As articulated by film critic André Bazin, the very form of the question “What is cinema?” is ontological. That is, the question itself asks about the ways in which the cinema can bring together quite disparate parts, expressions, technologies and events and produce a whole unit: a film.
