The vocabulary of film craft that describes how a film is edited and constructed to create meaning, drawn from film criticism and film school terminology. Belongs here: named editing and storytelling devices such as continuity editing, the jump cut, mise-en-scene, montage, and the MacGuffin as a screenwriting device. Does not belong here: hands-on production disciplines such as special effects or stop-motion animation, grouped under film craft and animation craft, or theoretical accounts of film's effect on viewers, grouped under film theory.
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the commercial, public screening of ten Lumiere brothers' short films in Paris on 28 December 1895, which has generally been regarded as the breakthrough of projected cinematographic motion pictures.
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