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| Amusement parlor boxes containing moving rolls of still pictures. |
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An aspect of human vision in which the brain retains images for a fraction of a second after they leave the field of sight; this allows for illusion of movement from a series of still pictures. |
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rigged a serious of cameras with strings on the shutters to capture motion of a running horse |
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| Early motion picture camera invented by Thomas Edison. |
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| Early motion picture viewer invented by Thomas Edison. |
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| small early movie theaters. |
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| Forcing theater owners to show movies with unknown stars in order to get movies with established stars. |
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Forcing theater owners to reserve movies without previewing them. |
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A movie director with a distinctive style. |
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| Film clips covering current events that were shown in theaters before the advent of television. |
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| the planning phase of movie making. |
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The actual shooting phase of production. |
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| The final phase of moviemaking, which includes editing and other technical improvements to the film. |
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| Movies that are not made by one of the major studios. |
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| The person who finds the financing for a film and puts the package together. |
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Line producers a.k.a. production managers |
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| People who lead the actual day-to-day work of making a film. |
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| Version of the film the director delivers to the studio. |
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| Movie directors in charge of shooting the scenes that do not require the stars. |
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| Simple editing maching made up of two reels on which film is spooled over a small light. |
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| The director of photography. |
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| The person who designs the physical look of a film. |
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| Film crew member in charge of making sure shots match up; sometimes called the script supervisor. |
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| Member of film crew who sets up and moves cameras. |
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| The gaffer's [lighting director's] assistant. |
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| The illegal copying and selling of movies. |
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Adding color to black-and-white films. |
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| The process of selling media content to individual outlets. |
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| Brief previews of coming movies shown in theaters. |
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| Consumer products built around movie characters. |
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| The inclusion of a product in a movie as a form of promotion for that product. |
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| Fictional movies that dramatize real-life stories. |
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