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Painting with light so the plot doesn't have to do all the work.
means The art and technique of capturing images on film or digitally — composing light, movement, and framing to tell a story visually.
from Built from Greek roots: 'kinema/kinema' (movement, related to 'kinein,' to move — the same root that gives us 'kinetic') plus 'graphein,' to write or record. So literally, 'writing movement.' The word arrived alongside the technology itself in the late 1800s, as inventors across France, Britain, and the US raced to name their new moving-picture devices — 'cinématographe' was the Lumière brothers' term for their camera-projector, and the craft name followed the machine.
- origin
- greek for writing in movement
- key tool
- shadows lie better than dialogue
- first oscar
- awarded in 1929, before sound mattered much
- secret job
- deciding where you look without you noticing