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  2. Glossary of motion picture terms - Wikipedia

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    The transfer of a creative work or story, fiction or nonfiction, whole or in part, to a motion picture format; i.e. the reimagining or rewriting of an originally non-film work with the specific intention of presenting it in the form of a film. aerial perspective. aerial shot. alternate ending.

  3. Category:Film and video terminology - Wikipedia

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    Black and white hat symbolism in film. Blackout gag. Blaxploitation. Blockbuster (entertainment) Blocking (stage) Blooper. Bottle episode. Bouncing ball (music) Box office.

  4. The Professor and the Madman (film) - Wikipedia

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    The film is about professor James Murray, who in 1879 became director of an Oxford University Press project, The New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (now known as the Oxford English Dictionary) and the man who became his friend and colleague, W. C. Minor, a doctor who submitted more than 10,000 entries while he was confined at ...

  5. Film genre - Wikipedia

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    Alan Williams distinguishes three main genre categories: narrative, avant-garde, and documentary. [7] With the proliferation of particular genres, film subgenres can also emerge: the legal drama, for example, is a sub-genre of drama that includes courtroom- and trial-focused films.

  6. MOS (filmmaking) - Wikipedia

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    MOS is a standard filmmaking jargon acronym used in production reports to indicate an associated film segment has no synchronous audio track.. Omitting sound recording from a particular shot can save time and relieve the film crew of certain requirements, such as remaining silent during a take, and thus MOS takes are common on contemporary film shoots, mostly when the subjects of the take are ...

  7. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    This glossary of literary terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in the discussion, classification, analysis, and criticism of all types of literature, such as poetry, novels, and picture books, as well as of grammar, syntax, and language techniques. For a more complete glossary of terms relating to poetry in particular, see ...

  8. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film - Wikipedia

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    The Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd-published first edition—the 600-page Biographical Dictionary of Cinema —was followed by Biographical Dictionary of Film, published by William Morrow & Co in June, 1980; the third, entitled A Biographical Dictionary of Film, was released on November 17, 1994, by Andre Deutsch Ltd; 328 pages longer than the ...

  9. MacGuffin - Wikipedia

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    He also related this anecdote in a television interview for Richard Schickel's documentary The Men Who Made the Movies, and in an interview with Dick Cavett. Hitchcock also said, "The MacGuffin is the thing that the spies are after, but the audience doesn't care." George Lucas