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A style of television entertainment that combines two genres, dramedy also comprises many styles of television, theatre and film. It balances humor and drama, or serious content, to an almost equal extent. A dramedy is also called comedy-drama or seriocomedy. One of the first times a dramedy was attempted was with Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Kid’.

The term docusoap is made up from two words – documentary and soap (television serials). A docusoap therefore is a television documentary with soap opera elements: a television programme that combines documentary style with aspects of soap opera, eg by showing the personal lives of people at their workplace. The term came into circulation in the late 20th century.

A 3-D film is any visual presentation system that attempts to maintain or recreate moving images of the third dimension, the illusion of depth as seen by the viewer. It involves filming two images simultaneously, with two cameras, filming at 90 degree angle via mirrors. When viewed in such a way that each eye sees its photographed counterpart, the viewer’s …

A marionette is a string puppet. It is worked from above by tilting a bar, which pulls the strings. This moves the puppet’s arms, legs, and head.

The director guides the actors’ performances and his actions on the movie sets. He also directs the camera angles, which gives style to the movie.

A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that can play specially selected songs from self-contained media. The traditional jukebox is rather large with a rounded top and has colored lighting on the front of the machine on its vertical sides. The classic jukebox has buttons with letters and numbers on them that, when combined, are …

When Lewis Carroll wrote Alice In Wonderland, he introduced the nicknames of some of his friends The Lory was young Lorina Liddell, the sister of Alice on whom Carroll based his look. The Eaglet was Alice’s other sister Edith. As for the Dodo, this was Carroll himself. Lewis Carroll was born January 27, 1832. In 1861, he decided to enter …

A countdown is loudly counting in reverse from 10 to 1, prior to an event. In a rocket launch, a countdown is a carefully devised set of procedures ending with the ignition of a rocket engine, which starts 72 to 96 hours prior to its launch time. During the countdown, step-by-step procedures like placing the vehicle at the launch site, …

In several countries, people cannot bring in animals freely from abroad. Any animal that does arrive must go into quarantine and spend several months in a cage before being allowed to mix freely with other animals and people. There is a very good reason for this law. It is to prevent the spread of a terrible disease called rabies. People …

The flowers appear at the times most suited to the production of seed for the continuation of the species. Before seed can develop the flower must be pollinated. This means that the dust-like pollem produce by the stamen of the flower must be transferred to the stigma of the ovary. Pollination is brought about by various means. Most plants are …