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That’s not an American thing that’s a movie/TV making 101 thing, it’s for lighting reasons at night, I guess it’s this person’s first day watching movies.
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I was literally in a movie recently with inexplicably wet streets, and the director said it was because the extra reflected light looks great on film.
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Those aren’t film, they’re tape. Film is what’s in the camera or shown through a projector and are visible to the naked eye. VHS, Betamax, and video2000 are magnetic tape formats that aren’t viewable with the naked eye. Regardless, “on film” is still a universally acceptable term for “on the recorded video” no matter the format because terms stick around in industries