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Motion Picture Association of America (1945-2019) The Motion Picture Association ( MPA) [1] [2] is an American trade association representing the five major film studios of the United States, as well as the video streaming service Netflix. Founded in 1922 as the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America ( MPPDA) and known as the ...
Hays Code. The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by major studios in the United States from 1934 to 1968. It is also popularly known as the Hays Code, after Will H. Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors ...
In addition to the equipment already found in a film-based movie theatre (e.g., a sound reinforcement system, screen, etc.), a DCI-compliant digital cinema requires a DCI-compliant digital projector and a powerful computer known as a server. Movies are supplied to the theatre as a digital file called a Digital Cinema Package (DCP).
Anti-film censorship cartoon published in The Film Mercury magazine, circa 1926. Public outcry over perceived immorality in Hollywood and the movies, as well as the growing number of city and state censorship boards, led the movie studios to fear that federal regulations were not far off; so they created, in 1922, the Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors Association (which became the ...
MoviePass, Inc. MoviePass, Inc. is an American subscription -based movie ticketing service [2] [3] owned by co-founder Stacy Spikes. [4] The service was launched in 2011 and allowed subscribers to purchase up to a movie ticket a day for a monthly fee. [5] The service utilized a mobile app, where users check in to a theater and choose a movie ...
For film projection systems, Digital Theater Systems, the company behind the DTS surround sound standard, has created a digital captioning device called the DTS-CSS (Cinema Subtitling System). It is a combination of a laser projector which places the captioning (words, sounds) anywhere on the screen and a thin playback device with a CD that ...
2-Track Digital Sound ( REMBS) 586. 1953. 3 Channel Stereo. 51. 1953. 4-Track Stereo ( CinemaScope) 586. 1955.
Cinemark Holdings, Inc. Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (stylized as CineMark from 1998 to 2022 and in all caps since 2022) is an American movie theater chain that started operations in 1984 and since then it has operated theaters with hundreds of locations throughout the Americas. It is headquartered in Plano, Texas, in the Dallas–Fort Worth area.