Movie types terminology confusion

[dinkob]

Well this could be a dumb question but I can't find info anyhwere on it.

So far that I have noticed that people use "interlaced" term in two ways. One of them applies to lines that appear when you capture above 240 height, and the other one I guess is type of the movie itself.

Now onto the acutal question;

Let's suppose you watch any movie (let's say matrix). Would this be a progressive movie? (see my next question what I am trying to get at).

Let's suppose you are watching news; sort of documentary type recording. Would this be interlaced (the picture looks like the first recording with a camera)?

Am I missing other "types" of movies? Is there a page with discussion on how the editing is done to achieve the actual movie effect?

Sorry if my question doesn't make sense. Thanks in advance.

***EDIT***.

B.T.W I just remembered that I think Blair Witch Project was a documentary style flick. Now would a proper term for that movie be interlaced?

[andkiich]

So far that I have noticed that people use "interlaced" term in two ways. One of them applies to lines that appear when you capture above 240 height, and the other one I guess is type of the movie itself.

The quote above is the proper definition. If someone referes to a movie as interlaced, they are referring to the way that particular movie or TV program was captured or broadcast.


Definiton of Interlaced:

Each frame of a video picture is scanned twice. Firstly, all the odd lines are broadcast, then all the even lines are broadcast. Each set of odd/even lines is known as a field. Two fields therefore make up a frame. The point of doing this is to reduce flicker, and not increase bandwidth.

Definition of progressive:

A video scanning system that displays all lines of a frame in one pass. Contrast with interlaced scan.

[Ejoc]

http://www.divx.com/support/guides/guide.php?gid=10 Does a pretty good job of explaining interlacing.