Watching movies is a very popular pastime.
Film is a term that comes from the Latin pellicŭla and has various uses. Its most common meaning is linked to a cinematographic work that usually tells a story written or adapted by a screenwriter and whose staging is the responsibility of a director.
The film may feature actors playing the various characters in the story or may feature animated drawings using various techniques . It is important to note that the film is the work itself, beyond its format and the place of exhibition (i.e. a film may be projected in a movie theater or watched on a television at home).
What is a movie
In general terms, a traditional film can be said to be a sequence of photographic images taken by a camera and presented by a cinematographic projector. This device uses a frame replacement speed of more than 18 frames per second, a characteristic that allows the human eye to create the illusion of continuity.
In this sense, it should be noted that those considered the fathers of cinema are the French Lumière brothers who in 1895 managed to use a camera to record the exit of workers from a factory in the city of Lyon . This would be the beginning of an art that has today become an indisputable part of our lives.
The importance of Hollywood
There is a real industry in the world of films, with Hollywood being the Mecca of cinema. This is the place where some of the most important productions in history have been created and where thousands of actors and actresses have appeared, becoming real milestones.
Among these performers we could highlight Marilyn Monroe , Bette Davis , Cary Grant , Marlon Brando , Leonardo DiCaprio , George Clooney , Meryl Streep or Susan Sarandon , among many others.
The celluloid strip is called film.
The most awarded films
In the case of the most important films in the history of cinema, based in this case on the well-known Oscars , there are the following: "Titanic" (1997), "Ben-Hur" (1959), "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003), "Gone with the Wind" (1939) or "West Side Story" (1961).
We could not overlook the most important filmmakers, those who have allowed us to enjoy great films today. Among the most significant are Billy Wilder , Steven Spielberg , Woody Allen , Luis Buñuel , Francis Ford Coppola , Charles Chaplin , Orson Welles , Alfred Hitchcock , Clint Eastwood , Federico Fellini , John Ford and George Lucas , among many others.
Other uses of the term
Film, on the other hand, is the celluloid strip . For example: “I need to buy film for my camera” , “The film was stored in a very humid place and the images were damaged” .
Finally, a film is a thin layer that covers some things , such as thin, delicate skin and the film used to cover wounds : “The chocolate mouse was delicious, but an unpleasant film formed when I stored it in the refrigerator.”