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Light dancing on a wall, organized into feelings and sold by the ticket.
means Movies and the wider industry built around producing, distributing, and watching them for pleasure.
from Film once meant the literal celluloid strip threaded through projectors; entertainment comes from Latin inter plus tenere, to hold attention between hands.
Persistence of visionYour brain stitches still frames into motion.
First flicksEarly films ran under one silent minute.
Frame rateTwenty-four frames per second became the storytelling standard.