What is a ‘Flick’ when it comes to movies?
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Before movies there were flick books and
zoetropes which were a series of still images which flicked from one to another, early film used the same principle (basically) and smoothed out the jumps between images. However films at the start still jumped quite a bit from frame to frame until the machines got better and the number of frames per second increased.
Flick is just another word for a movie. It comes from the word “flicker” because of how they look on the screen (it’s a not consistent brightness lighting up the movie on the big screen, it changes rapidly)
* For decades movies were shown on film projectors.
* These devices rapidly show a series of still images imprinted onto a film strip that is run through the projector.
* For each frame of this film strip, the projector grabs the frame and holds it still for just a moment.
* Then a shutter blocks the light while the frame is released and the next frame is moved into place.
* Then the shutter is removed and the new frame creates a projection on the screen.
* This constant blocking and unblocking of the light from the projector creates a flickering light, especially in the back of the theater where the projector is.
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