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- Camcorder
- A video camera and recorder in a single portable unit.
- Cinema
- A motion picture theater.
- Epic
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In motion pictures, a grand, historical film. Epics normally are expensive to make, run
longer than most films, and have larger casts.
- Genre
- Type or style. In motion pictures, examples of genre include musicals and westerns.
- Magic lantern
- A device for projecting images onto a wall.
- Movie palace
- A large cinema featuring an ornate architectural design.
- Newsreels
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A compilation of news and feature film stories presented as part of a cinema program.
Newsreels died out after the arrival of television, but they were one of the bases from which
television newscasts emerged.
- Nickelodeon
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A cinema converted from a store. It showed a series of brief films for a nickel. The
films usually were projected against a white wall or even a bedsheet.
- Self-censorship code
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Created by the motion picture industry itself in its effort to head off government or religious censorship. G, PG, R, and NC-17 (formerly X) are age-directed, selfcensorship designations.
- Stills-in-motion
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A method to make still images seem to move. Toys like the Thaumatrope spun to create the illusion known as persistence of vision.