What is Movie?
{{redirect|Film}} [[File:Night of the Living Dead (1968).webm|thumb|[[Night of the Living Dead]] (1968) has been listed as one of the greatest and most influential [[horror movie]]s ever made.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2012-01-18|title=Empire Features|url=http://www.empireonline.com/500/21.asp|access-date=2022-06-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118222018/http://www.empireonline.com/500/21.asp |archive-date=2012-01-18 }}</ref>]] A '''movie''' or '''film''' is a type of [[Visual arts|visual art]] that uses [[images]] and [[sound]]s to tell stories or [[Pedagogy|teach]] people something. Most people watch movies to [[entertainment|entertain]] themselves or to [[Recreation|have fun]]. Movies can vary significantly in emotional tone both overall as a specific genre type but also within a single work. Some of the most typical approaches are to [[Comedy|make people laugh]] (comedy), [[Tragedy|make them cry]] (tragedy or drama), or [[Horror movie|make them feel afraid]] (horror). However, there are also movies that combine genres, like horror-comedy. == Overview == [[File:Animated phenakistiscope disc - Running rats Fantascope by Thomas Mann Baynes 1833.gif|thumb|A [[Stroboscopic disc]] with 16 pictures moving at 10 [[Frame rate|frames a second]] that [[Illusion|makes it look like]] the rats are moving]]Most movies are made so that they can be [[Observation|watched]] at home or on a [[movie screen]] at [[movie theater]]s. Movies are shown in movie theaters a few weeks or months after or before the movie is [[Movie release|released]]. Movies can be [[Marketing|marketed]] using [[Media (communication)|media]]. Movies are shown on paid television or [[cable television]] or are [[Sales|sold]] or [[Renting|rented]] on [[DVD]] disks or [[videocassette]] tapes so that people can watch the movies at home. Movies can also be [[download]]ed or [[Streaming media|streamed]]. Some movies are shown on television [[broadcasting]] stations.{{cn|date=December 2024}} {{wiktionary}} Movies are [[Cinematography|filmed]] with [