Precursors
The art of film has drawn on several earlier traditions in fields such as oral storytelling, literature, theatre and visual arts. Forms of art and entertainmentthat had already featured moving and/or

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"Film theory" seeks to develop concise and systematic concepts that apply to the study of film as art. The concept of film as an art-form began in 1911 with Ricciotto Canudo's The Birth of the Sixth Art, and the Moscow Film School, the oldest film school in the world, was

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The making and showing of motion pictures became a source of profit almost as soon as the process was invented. Upon seeing how successful their new invention, and its product, was in their native France, the Lumièresquickly set about touring the

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The terminology used for describing motion pictures varies considerably between British and American English. In British usage, the name of

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Film is used for a range of goals, including education and propaganda. When the purpose is primarily educational, a film is called an "

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At its core, the means to produce a film depend on the content the filmmaker wishes to show, and the apparatus for displaying it: the zoetropemerely requires a series of images on a strip of paper. Film production can, therefore, take as little as one person with a camera

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Derivative academic fields of study may both interact with and develop independently of filmmaking, as in film theoryand analysis. Fields of academic study have been created

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