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Man working with a movie projector in a movie theater, 1958
A visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and the art form that is the result of it. (Full article...)
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are displayed here, which represent some of the best content on English Wikipedia.alternate reality that features both an alternate birth location for James T. Kirk and further alterations in history stemming from the time travel of both Nero and the original series Spock (Leonard Nimoy). The alternate reality was created in an attempt to free the film and the franchise from established continuity constraints while simultaneously preserving original story elements.
The idea for a prequel film which would follow the Star Trek characters during their time in
Viacom and CBS Corporation in 2005, former Paramount Pictures president Gail Berman convinced CBS to allow Paramount to produce a new film in the franchise. Orci and Kurtzman were soon approached to write the film, and Abrams was approached to direct it. Kurtzman and Orci used inspiration from novels and graduate school dissertations, as well as the series itself. Principal photography commenced on November 7, 2007, and ended on March 27, 2008. The film was shot in locations around California and Utah. Abrams wanted to avoid using bluescreen and greenscreen, opting to use sets and locations instead. Heavy secrecy surrounded the film's production and was under the fake working title Corporate Headquarters. Industrial Light & Magic used digital ships for the film, as opposed to miniatures used in most of the previous films in the franchise. Production for the film concluded by the end of 2008. (Portal:Film/Featured content
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TheCinématographe Lumière in projection mode (from History of film technology) -
Bahiga Hafez (1901–1983) Egyptian filmmaker and actress in 1920s and 1930s (from Film industry) -
The first two shots of As Seen Through a Telescope (1900), with the telescope POV simulated by the circular mask (from History of film) -
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GIF animation from retouched pictures of The Horse in Motion by Eadweard Muybridge (1879). (from History of film technology) -
Nestor studio, 1911 (from Film industry) -
Cinema admissions in 1995 (from History of film) -
Discounted DVD home video film releases sold in the Netherlands (from Film industry) -
Poster for a Biograph Studios release from 1913 (from Film industry) -
An electrotachyscope(from History of film technology)
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Animated GIF of Prof. Stampfer's Stroboscopische Scheibe No. X (Trentsensky & Vieweg 1833) (from History of film technology) -
The Jazz Singer (1927), was the first full-length film with synchronized sound. (from History of film technology) -
A frame from the Lumière brothers staged comedy film, L'Arroseur Arrosé (1895) (from History of film) -
A production scene from the 1950 Hollywood film Julius Caesar starring Charlton Heston (from History of film) -
Publicity still for the Egyptian film Yahya el hub (1938) (from Film industry) -
Max Skladanowsky (right) in 1934 with his brother Eugen and the Bioscop (from History of film technology) -
A surviving two-color-component image from the first Technicolor feature film, The Gulf Between (1917) (from History of film technology) -
A scene from Raja Harishchandra (1913) – credited as the first full-length Indian motion picture. (from Film industry) -
Astill from The Story of the Kelly Gang (Australia, 1906; 80 min.) (from Film industry) -
Frame from a c.1912 Chronochrome film (from History of film technology) -
Mona Zaki, Egyptian film star (from Film industry) -
Georges Méliès (left) painting a backdrop in his studio (from History of film) -
A.E. Smith filming The Bargain Fiend in the Vitagraph Studios in 1907. Arc floodlights hang overhead. (from History of film) -
Flying pelican captured by Marey around 1882. He created a method of recording several phases of movement superimposed into one photograph (from History of film technology) -
A shot fromBollywood. (from Film industry) -
William Friese-Greene (from Film industry) -
Poster for the 1956 Egyptian film Wakeful Eyes starring Salah Zulfikar and Shadia (from History of film) -
Don Juan is the first feature-length film to use the Vitaphone sound-on-disc sound system with a synchronized musical score and sound effects, though it has no spoken dialogue. (from History of film) -
Eadweard Muybridge's The Horse in Motion cabinet cards utilized the technique of chronophotography to study motion. (from History of film) -
The Wizard of Oz (from History of film) -
Edward Raymond Turner's three-color projector, 1902 (from History of film technology) -
Off Plus Camera Film Festival in Kraków, 2012, with Andrzej Seweryn, Daniel Olbrychski, and Wojciech Pszoniak on stage. (from Film industry) -
Charlie Chaplin (from History of film) -
TheHollywood. It still produces global blockbusters every year. (from Film industry) -
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Louis Poyet's engraving of the mechanism of the "fusil photographique" as published in La Nature (april 1882) (from History of film technology) -
Complex vignette shot in die Austernprinzessin (The Oyster Princess) (from History of film) -
Cinématographe Lumière at the Institut Lumière, France (from History of film technology) -
Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (from History of film) -
The Pathé Brothers, by Adrien Barrère.(from Film industry) -
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The Babelsberg Studio near Berlin was the first large-scale film studio in the world (founded 1912) and the forerunner to Hollywood. It still produces global blockbusters every year. (from History of film)
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Film still from Dickson Greeting (from History of film technology) -
Publicity still for the Egyptian film My Wife, the Director General (1966) (from Film industry) -
Italian neorealist movie Bicycle Thieves (1948) by Vittorio De Sica, considered part of the canon of classic cinema (from History of film) -
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London IMAX has the largest cinema screen in Britain with a total screen size of 520 m2. (from Film industry) -
Czermak's 1855 Stereophoroskop (from History of film technology) -
The Hollywood Sign (from Film industry)
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IMAX (short for Image Maximum) is a film format created by Canada's IMAX Corporation that has the capacity to display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film display systems. A standard IMAX screen is 22 m wide and 16.1 m high (72.6 ft x 52.8 ft), but can be larger.
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Golden Globe Award nominations, winning eight.
Trelawny of the Wells, and received a Tony Award nomination the following year for a double-bill production of 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and A Memory of Two Mondays. In 1977, she made her feature film debut in Julia. She won her first Primetime Emmy Award in 1978 for the miniseries Holocaust, and received her first Oscar nomination for The Deer Hunter that same year. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a troubled wife in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), followed by the Academy Award for Best Actress for starring as a Holocaust survivor in Sophie's Choice (1982). She continued to gain awards and critical acclaim for her film work throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Commercial success varied, with Out of Africa (1985), Death Becomes Her (1992), and The Bridges of Madison County (1995) earning the most money during that period. (Full article...
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Dil Ke Jharokhe Mein (1997), and Achanak (1998), led to a decline in her film career. She made her television debut in 2000 as the co-host of the game show Sawaal Dus Crore Ka with Anupam Kher. The show's poor ratings led to both Kher and Koirala being fired. For her role as a gangster's girlfriend in Ram Gopal Varma's 2002 crime drama Company, she received her third Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress. Koirala also appeared in the controversial film Ek Chhotisi Love Story in which she played a woman secretly spied upon by a teenage voyeur. The following year, her portrayal of Bengali writer Sushmita Banerjee in the drama Escape from Taliban garnered her the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Award for Best Actress (Hindi). (Full article...) -
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