Richard Grevers wrote: Hmmm, this is certainly more professional-sounding, although I note that Wikipedia officially favors "common usage" over formal ones, thus we title the article "Bill Clinton" instead of "William Jefferson Clinton". I like it better than "(movie/film)", which tells our readers "wikipedians were too stiff-necked to agree on something simpler". :-) Perhaps the next generation of software can have more variables to adjust for reader nationality set via preference, so you could have "Jackass (%MOTIONPICTURE)", "labo%Ur", "theat%ERRE", and so forth. Makes a little more work for editors, but avoids giving offense. Stan . . . . . (See, without the :-) you weren't sure whether my last paragraph was a serious suggestion or not, eh? But no, I wasn't serious.)

How about using film when it was made by a filmmaker and use movie when it was made by a moviemaker? This is the only moviemaker entry I could find on google search was http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI All the rest of the Super 16mm, 35mm, 65mm cinemagraphed or digital video videographed audiovisual works made for distribution in commercial movie or film theaters or theatres or for broadcast or cablecast on NTSC, PAL, SECAM or other HDTV video formats were made by filmmakers, but this does not include those works originally commissioned or otherwised produced for television known as television programs that were made by television directors, video artists or documentarians and may have been recorded on kinoscope or quad video which may have subsequently secured a theatrical release in major markets or in the art house market domestically or internationally having been originally shot on any of the above mentioned formats and subsquently reformated or transfer to simulate a different technology (such as Frank Zappa's 200 Motels) nor does it include those works by artists in any of the above formats that was produced for original release on CD-ROM, DVD, VHS, Betamax, flipbook format or for exhibition in a sculptural installation, interactive video kiosk or via slowscan ham video transmission licensed by the FCC or similar foreign licencing authority in any sovereign state. Not to mention the internet...