What is Film Noir? extended

The ten basic rules of film noir from Gonzalo Cordero de Ciria on Vimeo.

Film Noir is a cinemtic term which was popular in the 1940's to late 1950's. The translation of film noir, is black film. Film noir began in Hollywood and the genre they included was mainly crime.

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