What became the biggest competitor of film until the arrival of the Internet?
Television / TV.
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What is performance capture?
Motion capture tech translates actor's physical performance into digital character by recording movement of real-world objects markers placed on actor's body
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What was the 1st "Talkie" Film made w. Vitaphone (the leading brand of sound-on-disc technology at the time)?
The 1st "Talkie" feature film was Warner Brothers' "The Jazz Singer." Vitaphone would be soon replaced by the Movietone.
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Who was the most beloved, B+W silent movie star + what color were their eyes IRL?
Blue-Eye, Moustached + Bowler-Capped Charlie Chaplin. His funniest + most popular pantomime character was the naive + lovable Little Tramp.
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When did digital cinematography take over the movie industry?
In 2009, movie theaters started replacing projectors w. digital formats, overtaking film by 2013. Since 2016, > 90% of major films were shot on digital video.
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Who was the influential, accredited Color Director with the "iron fist" pulling all the strings behind most Technicolor movies?
Author of "Color Consciousness" Natalie Kalmus, supervising over 300 films. Technicolor wielded its own infrastructure, w. processing facilities + camera crew.
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What is the animation technique that animators use to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action?
Rotoscoping
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What replaced Technicolor, b/c it was cheaper + didn't require special camera / processing equipment?
Single-strip Eastmancolor negative (1952) by Eastman Kodak Co. b/ Technicolor print still remained preferred way to ensure vibrant prints even from Eastman neg.
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What is Technicolor 4 or 3-strip Technicolor, as seen 1st in Silly Symphony "Flowers and Trees" (1932)?
Process of cinematography using synchronized, monochrome films, each captured through a different color filter (R,G,B), + then combined into a full-color print.
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Inspired by Edison's 1-person-at-a-time Kinetoscope, who were the 1st to present projected silent moving pictures to a paying audience: Dec 1895 in Paris using a device of their own making?
Lumière Brothers (known as the Fathers of Cinema) with their hand-cranked, lightweight Cinématographe, which was a camera, projector, + film printer all in 1.
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What was the most used musical instrument as live accompaniment for B+W silent movies?
Pianos were the instrument of choice for most movie houses. Both pianos + amateur pianists (mostly young women) were readily available in any town.
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What color lighting is a darkroom usually to develop film?
Red, allowing photographers to control light carefully, so that light-sensitive photographic paper would not become overexposed and ruin the pictures.
