film

Also known as movie, motion picture, cinematic work, films, flick, moving picture, cinema, motion pictures

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OverviewAI-generated

Film is an audiovisual work and the main subject of Portal:Film. It is categorized under Category:Films and has the Commons category "Film". The topic is maintained by WikiProject Film and uses the Template:Infobox film. Its parts include trailers, film frames, film or TV credits, and title sequences. It possesses the characteristic of film genre.

The subject is studied by film theory, film studies, and sociology of film. Model items include 12 Angry Men, Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis, Wild Tales, and Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. It is referenced by 12,232 other encyclopedia articles. A PubMed query for film yields a count of 190104. The hashtag movies is associated with the topic.

Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Research

190,104 papers

Film Commentary.The journal of pastoral care & counseling : JPCC · 2022Gelo FDOI: 10.1177/15423050221128949
Film and culture.The Journal of analytical psychology · 2015Hyde SDOI: 10.1111/1468-5922.12134
Memories on film.The Lancet. Neurology · 2023Catchpole JDOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(23)00218-1
Fungi on film.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Harold SDOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02376-x
Doctors on film.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2022Smith ADOI: 10.1136/bmj.o2720
From film to philanthropy.The Lancet. Neurology · 2023Samarasekera UDOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(23)00234-X
Spawn of Satan: Parenthood as Psychological Horror in Film.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2023Thomas I, Martin A, Benoit LDOI: 10.1007/s40596-022-01730-0
The representation of imaging modalities in film.ReviewEuropean journal of radiology · 2026Rastegarpour ADOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2025.112565

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Encyclopedic overview

34 sections

Contents

History
Precursors
1830s–1880s: Before celluloid
1880s–1890s: First motion pictures
1910s: Early evolution
1920s–1960s: Evolution in sound
1930s: Evolution in color
1950s: growing influence of television
1960s–present: Modern cinema
Film theory
Language
Montage
Film criticism
Industry
Associated fields
Terminology
Preview
Trailer and teaser
Culture
Education and propaganda
Production
Crew
Technology
Independent
Open content film
Fan film
Distribution
Animation
See also
Notes
Citations
References
Further reading
External links

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A film, movie, or motion picture is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, synchronized with sound and sometimes using other sensory stimuli.

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