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cinematography

art of creating motion picture with photography
Intangible academic_major Q590870
cinematography
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Summary

cinematography is an academic major[1]. cinematography draws 8,500 Wikipedia views per month (academic major category, ranking #13 of 73).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: type of arts[3], conflation[4], entertainment[5]
  • Subclass of: photography[6]
  • Part of: visual arts[7]
  • Commons category: Cinema[8]
  • Said to be the same as: cinema[9], cinematography[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Cinematography[11]
  • Facet of: film production[12]
  • Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[14]
  • Different from: cinematograph[15], Cinema[16]
  • History of topic: history of film[17]
  • Practiced by: cinematographer[18]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[19]
  • Social media followers: 263,333[20]

Why It Matters

cinematography has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] cinematography is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Related Entities

Abbas Kiarostami Adèle Haenel Bertrand Blier Björn Andrésen Callum Turner Cinema Paradiso Émile Reynaud Fernand Léger film genre Frunzik Mkrtchyan Habama Haifaa al-Mansour Hedy Lamarr Jafar Panahi Jean-Luc Godard Julia Ducournau Julie Gayet Lyudmila Gurchenko Man Ray Maurice Pialat Maya Deren Mel Brooks Michael York Nikita Mikhalkov Nordisk Film Olivia de Havilland Salman Khan Sergei Parajanov Shah Rukh Khan visual arts

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → cinematography
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: cinematography, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289923734|cinematography (#289923734)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's "
  2. 10w ago · Yirba · 2026-08-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Google knowledge graph id → /g/120lw72j, /g/120rg1l1, /g/11bc62_074
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Google knowledge graph id: /g/11bc62_074, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/265841|batch #265841]]"
  3. 10w ago · Infovarius · 2026-08-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → cinematograph, Cinema
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Different from: Cinema, using [[User:Frettie/consistency check add.js]]"
  4. 19w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001414-kinematografie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0001414-kinematografie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  5. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Subclass of → photography
    Instance of → academic major, type of arts, conflation +1
    Part of → visual arts
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|11 */ Yso id: 1616, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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