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Film

A film, movie, or motion picture 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 sometimes feature other sensory stimuli.

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History

Film theory

Industry

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Terminology

Culture

Production

Distribution

Animation

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Film

Nodes357
Edges356
Triples286
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.005602
Components1

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Film

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related to Animation · 19
Film → Although, Animation, Because, Camera-less, Generating, Hanna-Barbera, However, Japan, Len Lye, Limited, Norman McLaren, Osamu Tezuka, Several, Stan Brakhage, This, TV, United States, UPA, When
related to Film theory · 17
Film → André Bazin, Béla Balázs, Ferdinand, Formalist, Jacques Lacan's, Laura Mulvey's, Ludwig Wittgenstein, More, On, Ricciotto Canudo's, Rudolf Arnheim, Saussure's, Siegfried Kracauer, Sixth Art, The, The Birth, The Moscow Film School
related to Industry · 16
Film → American, April, Belgium, Bial’s Music Hall, Brussels, Cinématographe, Edison, France, Koster, London, Lumieres, Lumière, The, They, Upon, Vitascope
related to 1960s–present: Modern cinema · 15
Film → Avatar, By, Digital, Egyptian New Wave, Film School Generation, French New Wave, IMAX, Indian New Wave, Japanese New Wave, Large-screen, New German Cinema, New Hollywood, New Wave, The, Various
related to 1920s–1960s: Evolution in sound · 14
Film → America's, As, Bell Telephone Company, By, Don Juan, Early, In, The, The Jazz Singer, The Vitaphone, Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, Vitaphone, Warner Bros, Western Electric
related to Independent · 14
Film → Also, An, Before, Both, But, Creative, DVDs, FireWire, Hollywood, Independent, On, Technologies, There, Warner Bros
related to 1950s: Growing influence of television · 12
Film → After, Alfred Hitchcock, Color, During, Hollywood, In, Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Psycho, Some, The, TV
related to Education and propaganda · 12
Film → Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrzej Wajda, Examples, Leni Riefenstahl, Nazi Germany, Sergei Eisenstein, Stalin, The, They, US, When, World War II
related to Language · 12
Film → An, Andrei Tarkovsky, Another, California, Director Ingmar Bergman, Hollywood, How, James Monaco, Known, Read, The, This
related to Trailer and teaser · 11
Film → As, Back, Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, Internet, Later, Of, Teasers, That, The, Trailers

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films needed cinema citation production motion sound also movie used montage filmmakers often television industry color digital images early create

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Filmis afilm or video inspired by a film0.90text
oral storytellinginstance ofHistoryPrecursorsThe art of film has drawn on several earlier traditions in fields0.80text
literatureinstance ofHistoryPrecursorsThe art of film has drawn on several earlier traditions in fields0.80text
theatreinstance ofHistoryPrecursorsThe art of film has drawn on several earlier traditions in fields0.80text
and visual artsinstance ofHistoryPrecursorsThe art of film has drawn on several earlier traditions in fields0.80text
the Electrotachyscopeinstance ofdevices0.80text
Kinetoscopeinstance ofdevices0.80text
and the Mutoscopeinstance ofdevices0.80text
camera movement were developed as effective ways to tell a story with filminstance ofThe scenes were later broken up into multiple shots photographed from different distances and angles.Other techniques0.80text
Sergei Eisensteininstance ofEuropean filmmakers0.80text
Finstance ofEuropean filmmakers0.80text
Peter Bogdanovichinstance offilmmakers0.80text

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