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Lying twenty-four times a second to tell the truth.
means The craft of shooting, editing, and assembling moving images into a story meant to be watched.
from A straightforward compound: 'film,' from the thin photographic strip once coated in light-sensitive emulsion, plus 'making,' the plain Old English verb for constructing something. The word only became necessary once the technology did — in the late 19th and early 20th century, as motion pictures turned from a novelty into an industry, and people needed a name for the work of building them, scene by scene.
- origin trick
- persistence of vision was always a myth, brains just interpolate
- budget math
- most costs hide in time, not cameras
- real skill
- deciding what to cut, not what to shoot
- secret ingredient
- sound is half the image, uncredited