live-action

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For live-action in role-playing games, see Live action role-playing game.


In film and video, live action refers to works that are acted out by human actors, as opposed to animation. Live action is the norm in film and video, and thus the term is usually superfluous. It is an important distinction, however, in situations where one might normally expect animation, as in a Disney film, a video game, or when the work is adapted from an animated cartoon, such as the Flintstones or Josie and the Pussycats films, or The Tick television program.

The term is also used within the animation world to refer to non-cartoon characters. For example, in a film such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit where humans and cartoons co-exist, "live action" characters are the "real" actors such as Bob Hoskins, as opposed to the animated "actors," such as Roger Rabbit himself.
role-playing game (RPG; often roleplaying game) is a game in which the participants assume the roles of fictional characters and collaboratively create or follow stories.
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A live action role-playing game (LARP or LRP) is a form of role-playing game where the participants physically act out some or all of their characters' actions.
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Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects.
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Video (Latin for "I see", first person singular present, indicative of videre, "to see") is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.
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Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in a number of ways.
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Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects.
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Video (Latin for "I see", first person singular present, indicative of videre, "to see") is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.
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Walt Disney Pictures

Subsidiary
Founded Burbank, California, USA (1983)
Headquarters Burbank, California, USA

Key people Dick Cook, Chairman
Oren Aviv, President

Industry Motion pictures
Revenue
Operating income
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video game is a game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device.

The word video in video game traditionally refers to a raster display device.
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An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn (or made with computers to look similar to something hand-drawn) film for the cinema, television or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot (even if it is a very short one).
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The Flintstones is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions.

Inspired by the 1950s live-action sitcom The Honeymooners,[1] The Flintstones
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Josie and the Pussycats is a 2001 comedy film released by Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, and starred Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson, Parker Posey, and Alan Cumming.
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The Tick is a fictional character, a blue-costumed muscular comic book superhero who fights crime in a city simply called "The City". He is an absurdist spoof of the superhero genre, originally found in an independent comic book series started in 1988 by cartoonist Ben Edlund,
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A television program (US), television programme (UK) or simply television show is a segment of programming in television broadcasting.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 film produced by Amblin Entertainment and The Walt Disney Company (released on its Touchstone Pictures banner), which blends traditional animation and live action.
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Bob Hoskins

Birth name Robert William Hoskins
Born September 26 1942 (1942--) (age 65)
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England

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