At its most basic, the film follows a little girl, Chihiro, on a journey to free her parents.
In its most basic form, the disparity exposes the sharp differences between specialty film and multiplex movies.
On the most basic level, the films are something like a plastic wrap made of edible components that dissolves in water.
Smartphone cameras, too, started out making pictures that were notably inferior to what could be captured on even the most basic of stand-alone cameras, film or digital.
Because without art and music, and the writing styles behind them, you wouldn't have the most basic forms of entertainment like film and television, not to mention the more sophisticated forms of performed music, dance, theater, and the visual arts.
Unlike film, even the most basic digital camera requires computation to turn the light hitting the sensor into a usable image.
Using a Python script that averaged the hue of each frame, this movie fanatic reveals the most basic and simple tonal representation of various films.
At its most basic level, it is a rewarding, compelling film.
The sense of identity of a member of a Free World, the most basic principle of anticommunism, appears nowhere in these films.
The sport is "theater at its most basic," says Mr. Blaustein, who also narrates and appears in the film.
