CHAPTER 5.23 Film for Television
DAVID J. BANCROFT
Thomson Reading,, United Kingdom
INTRODUCTION
Film has been a technology for moving image capture and reproduction for over 100 years—far longer than television. As a result, vast libraries and archives of material have accumulated all around the world, covering an extremely broad range of content from news footage to major feature movies, in addition to all the non-entertainment uses. Estimates vary, but probably somewhere between 1 and 2 million hours of filmed content exist in the world today.1 In addition, new content is constantly being created. Despite the increasing inroads of video capture and digital cinematography techniques, film remains the medium of choice for most directors of full-length ...
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