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SMR | Shadow Movie Realm | |
LDM | Linked Director Movie | |
LAMP | Linux Animation and Movie Player | |
IMDB | Internet Movie Database Boards | |
AWA | Animation Works Accelerated movie | |
WSMC | Widescreen Movie Center | |
MOV | Movie (AutoCAD AutoFlix) | |
SCM | Lotus ScreenCam Movie | |
MVI | Movie command file (AutoCAD AutoFlix) | |
QML | Quake Movie Library | |
MQQ | Movie Quote Quiz | |
QTV | QuickTime Virtual Reality Movie | |
MPG | Movie Preview Guy | |
QT | QuickTime movie (animation) | |
MAD | Movie Actor and Director | |
AWM | Animations Works Movie | |
JAM | Japanese Animated Movie | |
MMM | MultiMedia Movie format | |
DMS | Dell Movie Studio | |
PVM | Previously Viewed Movie | |
AMS | Adult Movie Shop | |
TMSI | Movie Superstore, Incorporated (de-listed) | |
AMS | Alternative Movie Society | |
XMZ | XGL Movie ( MegaView) | |
UME | The Ultimate Movie Experience |
What does b movie mean?
- B movie
- A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature. Although the U.S. production of movies intended as second features largely ceased by the end of the 1950s, the term B movie continued to be used in the broader sense it maintains today. In its post–Golden Age usage, there is ambiguity on both sides of the definition: on the one hand, many B movies display a high degree of craft and aesthetic ingenuity; on the other, the primary interest of many inexpensive exploitation films is prurient. In some cases, both may be true. In either usage, most B movies represent a particular genre—the Western was a Golden Age B movie staple, while low-budget science-fiction and horror films became more popular in the 1950s. Early B movies were often part of series in which the star repeatedly played the same character. Almost always shorter than the top-billed films they were paired with, many had running times of 70 minutes or less. The term connoted a general perception that B movies were inferior to the more handsomely budgeted headliners; individual B films were often ignored by critics.
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