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• Movies vs. Television
  Moves versus television � which is better? It is a debate that has raged for several years. You can come across those that say that a movie just is not a movie unless it really is viewed in a movie theater on the large screen, preferably while munching a bag of movie theater popcorn. These folks say that something is lost when movies that were filmed with the intent of being shown on wide screens in movie theaters are decreased and shown on littl...



• Douglas Fairbanks � Movie Star
  Later in life, Douglas Fairbanks was billed as Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., so as to distinguish him from his son, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Douglas Fairbanks was one of the 1st real movie "stars" and he lived up to that billing in his personal along with his private life.
  
  Douglas was born with the name Douglas Elton Thomas Ulman. When Douglas Fairbanks's parents separated and divorced, his mother returned to making use of her maiden name, Fairban...



• Stunt Men and Women within the Movies
  Inside the early days of film, nobody even considered the notion that the star of the movie wouldn't participate in all of the scenes even if the scenes had been harmful. The early movie stars ALL did their own stunts. There were, needless to say, a few stunt men in those early days of movie making. You won't recognize the names � Buddy Mason, Gene Perkins, Harvey Parry, Al Wilson, and Dick Grace.
  
  After various disasters and near disasters...



• Anti-War Movies
  Lots of action war movies depict the excitement, the heroism, and also the glory of war. We call them pro-war movies. Then you will find war action movies that depict the human toll that war takes. These films are normally referred to as anti-war films. Some anti-war movies shove their anti-war message down the viewer's throat, even though other people deliver the message in a significantly a lot more subtle way. Still, the films do demonstrate t...



• Animation in Movies
  People today are fascinated with motion. Still paintings, drawings, and photographs are great; but if they move, they are even better. Movies could be moving pictures of men and women or animals, obviously, but movies can also be drawings that appear to move � what we call "animation."
  
  The clearest and most concise definition of "animation" is on the Go Encyclopedia web page. According to Go Encyclopedia, animation "is the filming of a seq...