The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai ( formerly known as Bombay ), Maharashtra, India.

The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema ; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centres producing films in regional languages.

Sometimes the term includes data that has not traditionally been associated with computers, such as film, tapes, and records.

Sometimes the term includes data that has not traditionally been associated with computers, such as film, tapes, and records.

The term Left Bank was first coined by film critic Richard Roud, who has described them as having " fondness for a kind of Bohemian life and an impatience with the conformity of the Right Bank, a high degree of involvement in literature and the plastic arts, and a consequent interest in experimental filmmaking ", as well as an identification with the political left.

In the 2001 feature film Ocean's Eleven Don Cheadle uses the term " barney " and the claim is made that this rhyme is derived from Barney Rubble, (" trouble ") with references to a character from the Flintstones cartoon show.

Reviewing the film for Scientific American, John Rennie says " The term is a curious throwback, because in modern biology almost no one relies solely on Darwin's original ideas ...

The term film editing is derived from the traditional process of working with film, but now it increasingly involves the use of digital technology.

Continuity is a film term that suggests that a series of shots should be physically continuous, as if the camera simply changed angles in the course of a single event.

In fact, the film industry adopted the term " photoplay " for motion pictures at this time.

The term Neorealism was used for the first time for Luchino Visconti ’ s Ossessione ( 1943 ): it is considered by many to be the first Italian neorealist film.

It was Grierson who coined the term " documentary " to describe a non-fiction film, and he produced the movement's most celebrated film of the 1930s, Night Mail ( 1936 ), written and directed by Basil Wright and Harry Watt, and incorporating the poem by W. H. Auden.

American scholar David Bordwell has spoken against many prominent developments film theory since the 1970s, i. e., he uses the humorously derogatory term " SLAB theory " to refer to film studies based on the ideas of Saussure, Lacan, Althusser, and / or Barthes.

The term film noir, French for " black film ," first applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, was unrecognized by most American film industry professionals of that era.

It was not until February 1973 that The New York Times first used the term, describing how the " moods and tensions " in the British private-eye parody Pulp ( 1972 film ) | Pulp came " out of the collective depths of the film noir ".

The live action in LARP is analogous to the term live action used in film and video to differentiate works with human actors from animation.

However, the development of the Hays Code in 1930 censored most references to homosexuality from film under the umbrella term " sex perversion ".

* Martini Shot, a term used during film production for the last shot of the day

In the film, the word " gay " was an ad-lib by Grant and was not in any version of the original script.

Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play.

On location, there is usually just one camera to film an interview, and it's usually trained on the interviewee.

Since the shorts were produced during the rise of film noir in cinema, the change was usually represented as a stylized sequence: Clark Kent's silhouette is clearly seen behind a closed door's pebble glass window ( or a shadow thrown across a wall ) as he strips to his Superman costume.

The newsreel tradition is important in documentary film ; newsreels were also sometimes staged but were usually re-enactments of events that had already happened, not attempts to steer events as they were in the process of happening.

For instance, much of the battle footage from the early 20th century was staged ; the cameramen would usually arrive on site after a major battle and re-enact scenes to film them.

These were usually assembled with the addition of deleted scenes, sometimes adding as much as a half-hour to the length of the film without regard to pacing and storytelling.

Its name derives from the astronaut " standing up " in the open hatch, usually to film or assist a spacewalking astronaut.

Editors usually play a dynamic role in the making of a film.

The film editor usually starts working while principal photography starts.

A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality.

There are also many smaller film festivals in the United States, such as the Stony Brook Film Festival in Long Island, New York, the Northwest Filmmakers ' Festival, or the Sicilian Film Festival in Miami, Florida, which do not charge entry fees ; however, acceptance of films is usually more limited, and such film festivals do not necessarily attract big names in their audiences like Sundance and Telluride do.

A film could be under a minute long and would usually present a single scene, authentic or staged, of everyday life, a public event, a sporting event or slapstick.

The reel of film, of maximum length, which usually contained one individual film, became the standard unit of film production and exhibition in this period.

In 1952 Umberto D was released, usually considered the last film of this type.

Similarly, release print stocks usually are available only in two varieties: a " normal " print or a deluxe print ( on more-costly print film like Kodak Vision Premiere ) with slightly greater saturation and contrast.

Her character is usually renamed in film adaptations because of difficulties with pronunciation.

Other characteristics usually include the film gauge, pulldown method, lens anamorphosis ( or lack thereof ), and film gate or projector aperture dimensions, all of which need to be defined for photography as well as projection, as they may differ.

* Zombie film – Zombie films feature creatures who are usually portrayed as either reanimated corpses or mindless human beings.

The others usually begin with the world rushing to catastrophe, until people realise a better way of living: whether by mysterious gases from a comet causing people to behave rationally and abandoning a European war ( In the Days of the Comet ( 1906 )), or a world council of scientists taking over, as in The Shape of Things to Come ( 1933, which he later adapted for the 1936 Alexander Korda film, Things to Come ).

To help promote the film abroad, Caprino and Sandemose built a full scale replica of Il Tempo Gigante that is legal for public roads, but is usually exposited at Hunderfossen Familiepark.

For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.

' Cut ' explicitly refers to the process of film editing: the director's cut is preceded by the rough editor's cut and followed by the final cut meant for the public film release.

Alain Silver, the most widely published American critic specializing in film noir studies, refers to film noir as a " cycle " and a " phenomenon ", even as he argues that it has — like certain genres — a consistent set of visual and thematic codes.

The film and television entertainment industry refers to the totality of fans devoted to a particular area of interest, whether organized or not, as the " fanbase ".

The original title of the film, Fucking Åmål, refers to the girls ' feelings about their smalltown home: in a key scene one of the girls shouts in desperation " varför måste vi bo i fucking jävla kuk-Åmål " ( which roughly translates to " why do we have to live in fucking bloody cock-Åmål ").

In film theory, genre ( or ) refers to the method based on similarities in the narrative elements from which films are constructed.

The 1975 movie Inserts directed by John Byrum about a pornographic film production, which starred Richard Dreyfuss and was originally released with an X rating, took its name from the double meaning that " insert " both refers to this film technique ( often used in pornographic filmmaking ) and to sexual intercourse.

The name of the cut refers to the shape of the cut pieces of the film-the audio track is cut somewhat after ( or before ) the last frame of video, resulting in roughly L-shaped film ends, as the video and audio parts of film are in tracks, one below, one above, on the film itself.

In the film commentary, Mendes refers to deleted scenes he intended to include in the release.

The name of the gauge refers to the width of the photographic film, which consists of strips 1. 377 ± 0. 001 inches ( 34. 98 ± 0. 03 mm ) wide.

Former U. S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara refers equivocally to the statement that " war is cruelty and you cannot refine it " in both the book Wilson's Ghost and in his interview for the film The Fog of War.

* In the 1976 film Network, the network programming executive played by Faye Dunaway refers to crusading reporter Howard Beale as a " a magnificent messianic figure, inveighing against the hypocrisies of our times, a strip Savonarola, Monday through Friday.

* In the 1992 film City of Joy ( whose title refers to Kolkata ), Om Puri plays a rickshaw puller, revealing the economic and emotional hardship that these underpaid workers face on a day-to-day basis.

In the 1977 film Star Wars, Han Solo refers to them as " Imperial cruisers ".

In Barton Fink, Ben Geisler refers to the film while talking to the titular character.

Featuring the voices of Neri Marcorè and Daniela Cavallini, the film used stop motion animation techniques but featured construction paper puppets rather than clay or graphics-a technique Lione invented, to which he refers as " papermotion ".

He was named after British film mogul J. Arthur Rank and refers to what would be later known as crank calling.

: Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum refers to a makeshift 1960s and 1970s genre called the acid Western, associated with Dennis Hopper, Jim McBride, and Rudy Wurlitzer, as well as films like Monte Hellman's The Shooting, Alejandro Jodorowsky's bizarre experimental film El Topo ( The Mole ), and Robert Downey Sr .' s Greaser's Palace.