According to Scholastics, Film and Animation refers to a sequence of moving images viewed with a monitor, television, or projector. Examples (including but not limited to): Documentary films, narrative films, commercials, experimental video, as well as hand-drawn, computer-generated, or stop-motion animations, etc.

Since 1980, North Carolina has been connected to the production of more than 700 movies and 6 network television series, representing $6 billion in production revenue. Although international competition, particularly from Canada, has caused revenues to slip (by 2002 they were $230 million, less than half of 1993's all-time high of $504.3 million), the state remains home to the largest number of studio facilities (7) and sound stages (30) of any state except California. The long list of successful films made entirely or partially in North Carolina includes Being There (1979), Blue Velvet (1986), Bull Durham (1988), The Color Purple (1985), Dirty Dancing (1987), Forrest Gump (1994), The Green Mile (1999), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Lolita (1998), Patch Adams (1998), The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002), and A Walk to Remember (2002). Learn more about Film and Animation in NC.

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