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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.
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.
Basically, all mean the same; a sequence of consecutive pictures of objects photographed in motion by a specially designed camera and thrown on a screen by a projector in such rapid succession as to give the illusion of natural movement. "Movies" is the shortening of "motion picture".
- Movies is probably more common in AE and films more common in BE, pictures is common in a lot of BE dialects. "Film" (singular) is often used...
- They are all synonyms, with different derivations. Movie is short for moving picture (or motion picture which I have not heard too much), and...
- Maybe a bit idiosyncratic (reminiscent of "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke" ), but I must admit that whereas mostly I just th...
- What is the difference between movie, film and motion picture? In school I learned that a movie is played in a cinema, but film is also used to...
- When I was in film school in Los Angeles at UCLA we called it the film department though it was officially the Department of Motion Pictures. USC's...
This glossary of motion picture terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts related to motion pictures, filmmaking, cinematography, and the film industry in general.
24 Frames Per Second. 24 frames per second (fps) is the standard frame rate for movies shot on film. It refers to the number of frames projected onto the screen per second. Most modern films come in at 24 frames per second, but in the past, they would be projected 16 or 18 fps.
A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature ), also called a theatrical film, is a narrative film ( motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program.
