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Hi, I'm Elliot and this is Mental Floss Video. Today's episode is brought to you by our friends at True TV with Adam Ruins Everything

And today, I'm going to talk about some misconceptions about my favorite industry. It's the film industry. Hi, film industry. Welcome

Misconception number one, a director owns the rights to their movie. As you probably know, movies are made with the help of a bunch of people

There's writers, directors, producers, etc. In terms of copyright, this makes them joint works

Sometimes when copywriting a film, a company provides a list of authors who co-own the copyright

but usually a motion picture company hires a bunch of individuals to work on the film

So when a director signs onto a project, it will often be in their contract that they don't own the copyright to the film

And this can cause problems. Like in 2015, director Alex Merkin lost a court case to the production company 16 Casa Duzet

because he refused to give them the raw footage for a short film they'd hired him to make. He never actually signed his contract, so he just went ahead and registered the film with the U.S. Copyright Office on his own

You can't do that, man. The court ruled that Sixteen Casa Duzea owned the footage because they'd put the project together and hired the crew, including Merkin

Misconception number two, a movie producer primarily deals with the movie's finances. Producers do a lot of stuff so people usually simplify it by saying that they the ones handling the money There are actually a few different types of producers and they all do different jobs An executive producer isn involved in any of the technical parts of filmmaking but handles the business and legal side

They also may or may not own the rights to the story. A co-executive producer is involved

in providing some of the budget. Then a co-producer does more of the day-to-day stuff

from casting to filming to post-production. Misconception number three, editors start working after the movie finishes filming

Actually, editors are typically working throughout the film's production. According to Tim Squires, who edited Life of Pi

if they start shooting on a Monday, I get the footage on Tuesday. While the director is on set, the editor might put together cuts of

scenes. Then the director can watch those throughout production. Misconception number four, films are shot in chronological order. Films are shot out of order for many reasons

like scheduling, lighting, actor availability, and just plain convenience. The crew would be

unnecessarily moving from place to place if films were shot in order of scene. Instead, they're able to film all the scenes that occur in a certain location before packing up and moving

to a new place. If films were shot in chronological order, they would probably be a nightmare to

schedule. Plus, it would take much longer to complete one. A few movies have been shot in chronological order though, usually because a director wants to get actors to feel a certain way. Like A Beautiful Mind and Nine and a Half Weeks were mostly filmed in order

Misconception number five, all noises in films were created on set. The microphones on set have one primary purpose, which is to record

dialogue and movie props often don even sound right because they fake Noises made by feet doors and pretty much every prop are added in later by a Foley artist This person records sounds in a studio so a film background noise sounds the way it should A Foley artist can record the noise the actual item should make when it being picked up or moved

Even dialogue can be recorded after a film is done shooting. Speaking of sound, misconception number six, The Jazz Singer was the first movie with sound

This film is often credited as the first one with sound, but that's not really the case. There were already many short films containing sound, dialogue, and even musical numbers

And there were a few feature-length films containing sound effects and music. The Jazz Singer was the first feature-length film with synchronized dialogue

It also only has about two minutes of that total. Misconception number seven, 3D movies must be filmed with a special camera

Traditionally, a 3D film was made with something called stereoscopic photography. In this technique, a camera basically captures two images at once

so there are multiple perspectives of the same thing. Nowadays, it's not necessary. Many movies released in 3D have been made that way in post-production

It takes four to six months to convert a movie filmed normally into 3D, and this has been done with movies including The Avengers and Jurassic World

Misconception number eight, the term Bollywood refers to India's filmmaking industry. Actually, Bollywood only describes the industry in India that makes films in Hindi

India has the biggest filmmaking industry in the world, and Bollywood is only part of that

India also contains Thollywood, which produces films in the Telugu language, and Kaliwood

which makes films in Tamil. Bollywood, by the way, is called that because it got the

B from Bombay and of course the Ollywood is just guess It from Hollywood Misconception number nine the lion from the MGM logo killed its trainer That is not true Since 1917 MGM has had multiple logos run before their films

and these were filmed by different lions. The one that this legend probably refers to is Jackie

because he was the first post-silent film-era lion. So he's the first logo that roared, basically

Regardless, neither him nor any of the other MGM lions ever killed a trainer

They were very professional. Misconception number 10, Marisa Tomei won her Academy Award by accident

So in 1993, Marissa Tomei won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in My Cousin Vinny

which is a fantastic movie. It was considered an upset because she beat a few great actresses, including Vanessa Redgrave

who many people thought would win. Afterwards, a film critic named Rex Reed claimed that Jack Palance read the wrong name at the ceremony

meaning she was not the genuine winner. But this was just a theory. In 1997, Roger Ebert asked the executive director of the Academy about the situation

He responded, if such a scenario were ever to occur. The Pricewaterhouse people backstage

would simply step out on stage and point out the era. They are not shy. Thank you for watching Misconceptions on Mental Floss Video

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