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# Film

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This article is about motion pictures. For other uses of "film", see photographic film or film (disambiguation).

Films (movies, motion pictures) use moving pictures and sound to show stories. Many people like films, in every part of the world. Films can be shown on a television, or in a cinema or movie theatre. Many films first go to the cinema screens, and are shown on television only later on.

## [edit] How movies work

A movie camera takes lots of pictures very fast. It takes 24 pictures every second. When a movie projector, a computer, or a television shows the pictures at that speed, it looks like things are moving.

## [edit] How movies are made

A screenwriter writes a script, which tells people what to say and what to do. Then a producer, who often works for a studio, hires people to work on the film. The director tells people, called actors and actresses, what to do, and a cameraman takes pictures of them. An editor takes the pictures and puts them together into a story. When the movie is done, many copies are made to send to theatres. A machine shines light through the clear film, and people sitting in a dark room see it on a big screen.

## [edit] Genres

A genre is a special group of movies. Action movies are fast movies that are often about people fighting. Dramas are serious, and often about love or people dying. Comedies are funny. These are only a few of the most important kinds of movies. Some movies are in more than one genre.

## [edit] Famous actors

- Buster Keaton
- Cary Grant
- Charlie Chaplin
- Dustin Hoffman
- Humphrey Bogart
- Jack Nicholson
- James Stewart
- John Wayne
- Marlon Brando
- Paul Newman
- Robert DeNiro
- Sidney Poitier
- Tom Hanks

## [edit] Famous actresses

- Audrey Hepburn
- Doris Day
- Jodie Foster
- Julia Roberts
- Kathy Bates
- Katharine Hepburn
- Meryl Streep
- Renée Zellweger
- Vivian Leigh
- Angelina Jolie
- Kate Bosworth
- Dakota Fanning

## [edit] Famous directors

- Akira Kurosawa
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Ang Lee
- Billy Wilder
- Francis Ford Coppola
- François Truffaut
- Frank Capra
- John Ford
- Martin Scorcese
- Orson Welles
- Ridley Scott
- Robert Altman
- Sergio Leone
- Spike Lee
- Stanley Kubrick
- Steven Spielberg
- Terry Gilliam
- Tim Burton
- Zhang Yimou

## [edit] Related topic

- Big 10 (America's ten largest movie studios)

## [edit] External links

- The Internet Movie Database
- Movie trailers – Watch movie trailers from Apple.com (You need QuickTime software on your computer).
- Rotten Tomatoes – Movie reviews.
- Yahoo! Movies
- Classic Movies (1939 - 1969)

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