Many student films are still image films, and the making of these films is a requirement in some film school courses. In narrative filmmaking, the vast majority of still image films are short films. Perhaps the best known narrative still image film is Chris Marker's 1962 film La Jetée, which was the inspiration for the 1995 film 12 Monkeys. Such films are typically considered experimental or art films. It is less common in narrative films, but has been done occasionally. Ken Burns is well known for having used it repeatedly in his films. This filmmaking technique is more common in historical documentaries, where old photographs may provide the best documentation of certain events.

They may also use various editing techniques found in traditional films, such as dissolves, zooms, and panning. These films usually include a standard soundtrack, similar to what is found in typical sound films, complete with music, sound effects, dialogue or narration. A number of organized crime figures were convicted as a result of the skimming.Film technique involving the use of still imagesĪ still image film, also called a picture movie, is a film that consists primarily or entirely of still images rather than consecutive still images in succession, forgoing the illusion of motion either for aesthetic or practical reasons. This skimming operation, when uncovered by the FBI, was the largest ever exposed. Over the next six years, Argent Corporation siphoned off between $7 and $15 million using rigged scales. Argent was owned by Allen Glick, but the casino was believed to be controlled by various organized crime families from the Midwest. The fictional Tangiers resort reflected the story of the Stardust Resort and Casino, which had been bought by Argent Corporation in 1974 using loans from the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund. This gave him an idea to focus on a new book about the true story of mob infringement in Las Vegas during the 1970s, when filming of Goodfellas (whose screenplay he co-wrote with Scorsese) was coming to an end. The research for Casino began when news reporter and screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi read a 1980 report from the Las Vegas Sun about a domestic argument between Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal, a casino figure, and his wife Geri McGee, a former topless dancer. Casino is based on New York crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi's book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas.

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