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Film and video terminology
- StoryboardWho invented the storyboard, Webb Smith or Ted Sears? Accounts from Disney animators still disagree.
- B movieGeorge Romero shot Night of the Living Dead on weekends for $114,000. This B movie changed American cinema.
- Box-office bombThe phrase box-office bomb once meant a movie had exploded at the box office in a good way.
- Independent filmIndependent filmmakers once fled to Hollywood to escape process servers. Edison's patent trust sued those it refused.
- CartoonIn 1843, Punch magazine used the word cartoon to mock planned paintings for the Palace of Westminster.
- Key frameA key frame marks where an action begins and ends. Software fills in everything between those two points.
- Short filmIn 1938, three major comedy short producers quit in a single year. Double features had squeezed out two-reel shorts.
- Live actionDisney's 2019 remake of The Lion King was called live action, though no real animals appear.
- Blockbuster (entertainment)The word blockbuster began as the name for a wartime bomb. Newspapers used it for bombs able to level a city block.
- Direct-to-videoThe first movie made straight for home video was a 1984 comedy. It was E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind.
- Film frameA two-hour film at 24 frames per second holds more than 170,000 still images.