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Z-film: refers to a very low-budgeted,

independently-made, non-union movie



White balance: refers to electronically setting or '

color-correcting' a camera's white balance



Walk-on: minor role consisting of a single, brief

appearance on the screen


Celluloid: transparent flammable plastic made in sheets from camphor and nitrocellulose, formerly used for cinematographic film

stroboscopic: visual phenomenon caused by aliasing that occurs when continuous rotational or other cyclic motion is represented by a series of short or instantaneous samples at a sampling rate close to the period of the motion.

Emulsion: light-sensitive coating for photographic films and plates, containing crystals of a silver compound dispersed in a medium such as gelatin.


Zoptic: revolutionary special effects, 3-D process

invented by cameraman Zorian Perisic, incorporating a

camera system and a projector with synchronized

zoom lenses, to create the illusion of movement in

depth


U-matic: refers to 3/4 inch magnetic tape, originally a

professional cassette tape format now being supplanted by new digital formats; a competing tape format was

the inferior 1/2" VHS or beta



Abby Singer: nickname for the second-to-last

production shot of the day; the name was attributed

to famed American production manager and assistant

film director Abby Singer between the 1950s-1980s


Geneva drive: gear mechanism that translates a continuous rotation movement into intermittent rotary motion. The rotating drive wheel is usually equipped with a pin that reaches into a slot located in the other wheel that advances it by one step at a time

buyout: amount of money they give an actor to buy out the rights for them to be in that film or that commercial for that length of time that they want it

BEAUTY SHOT (screen): The last shot on a TV show, which is then used to run the credits

Squib: firework consisting of a tube filled with powder

(as a broken

firecracker)

that burns

with a fizzing

noise

Undercranking:

refers to the

slowing down of the frame rate of a camera, by shooting at less

than the standard 24 fps, so that the captured image, when normally projected, will appear to be in

fast motion; often

used to produce a comic effect









Change-over cue: small dot,

oval

or mark on the top-right

corner of a film frame that

signaled to the projectionist

to

change over from one

projector

(Or film reel) to another (about every 15-20 minutes).


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zoetrope: 19th-century optical toy consisting of a cylinder with a series of pictures on the inner surface that, when viewed through slits with the cylinder rotating, give an impression of continuous motion

praxinoscope: animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder.


Residual: payment made to an actor, singer, writer, etc. for repeated uses of their work

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Z-film: refers to a very low-budgeted,

independently-made, non-union movie



White balance: refers to electronically setting or '

color-correcting' a camera's white balance



Walk-on: minor role consisting of a single, brief

appearance on the screen


Celluloid: transparent flammable plastic made in sheets from camphor and nitrocellulose, formerly used for cinematographic film

stroboscopic: visual phenomenon caused by aliasing that occurs when continuous rotational or other cyclic motion is represented by a series of short or instantaneous samples at a sampling rate close to the period of the motion.

Emulsion: light-sensitive coating for photographic films and plates, containing crystals of a silver compound dispersed in a medium such as gelatin.


Zoptic: revolutionary special effects, 3-D process

invented by cameraman Zorian Perisic, incorporating a

camera system and a projector with synchronized

zoom lenses, to create the illusion of movement in

depth


U-matic: refers to 3/4 inch magnetic tape, originally a

professional cassette tape format now being supplanted by new digital formats; a competing tape format was

the inferior 1/2" VHS or beta



Abby Singer: nickname for the second-to-last

production shot of the day; the name was attributed

to famed American production manager and assistant

film director Abby Singer between the 1950s-1980s


Geneva drive: gear mechanism that translates a continuous rotation movement into intermittent rotary motion. The rotating drive wheel is usually equipped with a pin that reaches into a slot located in the other wheel that advances it by one step at a time

buyout: amount of money they give an actor to buy out the rights for them to be in that film or that commercial for that length of time that they want it

BEAUTY SHOT (screen): The last shot on a TV show, which is then used to run the credits

Squib: firework consisting of a tube filled with powder

(as a broken

firecracker)

that burns

with a fizzing

noise

Undercranking:

refers to the

slowing down of the frame rate of a camera, by shooting at less

than the standard 24 fps, so that the captured image, when normally projected, will appear to be in

fast motion; often

used to produce a comic effect









Change-over cue: small dot,

oval

or mark on the top-right

corner of a film frame that

signaled to the projectionist

to

change over from one

projector

(Or film reel) to another (about every 15-20 minutes).


Click To Edit


Help

Insert Paragraph
Undoes the last command
Redoes the last command
Tab
Untab
Set a bold style
Set a italic style
Set a underline style
Set a strikethrough style
Clean a style
Set left align
Set center align
Set right align
Set full align
Toggle unordered list
Toggle ordered list
Outdent on current paragraph
Indent on current paragraph
Change current block's format as a paragraph(P tag)
Change current block's format as H1
Change current block's format as H2
Change current block's format as H3
Change current block's format as H4
Change current block's format as H5
Change current block's format as H6
Insert horizontal rule
linkDialog.show

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zoetrope: 19th-century optical toy consisting of a cylinder with a series of pictures on the inner surface that, when viewed through slits with the cylinder rotating, give an impression of continuous motion

praxinoscope: animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder.


Residual: payment made to an actor, singer, writer, etc. for repeated uses of their work

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Z-film: refers to a very low-budgeted,

independently-made, non-union movie



White balance: refers to electronically setting or '

color-correcting' a camera's white balance



Walk-on: minor role consisting of a single, brief

appearance on the screen


Celluloid: transparent flammable plastic made in sheets from camphor and nitrocellulose, formerly used for cinematographic film

stroboscopic: visual phenomenon caused by aliasing that occurs when continuous rotational or other cyclic motion is represented by a series of short or instantaneous samples at a sampling rate close to the period of the motion.

Emulsion: light-sensitive coating for photographic films and plates, containing crystals of a silver compound dispersed in a medium such as gelatin.


Zoptic: revolutionary special effects, 3-D process

invented by cameraman Zorian Perisic, incorporating a

camera system and a projector with synchronized

zoom lenses, to create the illusion of movement in

depth


U-matic: refers to 3/4 inch magnetic tape, originally a

professional cassette tape format now being supplanted by new digital formats; a competing tape format was

the inferior 1/2" VHS or beta



Abby Singer: nickname for the second-to-last

production shot of the day; the name was attributed

to famed American production manager and assistant

film director Abby Singer between the 1950s-1980s


Geneva drive: gear mechanism that translates a continuous rotation movement into intermittent rotary motion. The rotating drive wheel is usually equipped with a pin that reaches into a slot located in the other wheel that advances it by one step at a time

buyout: amount of money they give an actor to buy out the rights for them to be in that film or that commercial for that length of time that they want it

BEAUTY SHOT (screen): The last shot on a TV show, which is then used to run the credits

Squib: firework consisting of a tube filled with powder

(as a broken

firecracker)

that burns

with a fizzing

noise

Undercranking:

refers to the

slowing down of the frame rate of a camera, by shooting at less

than the standard 24 fps, so that the captured image, when normally projected, will appear to be in

fast motion; often

used to produce a comic effect









Change-over cue: small dot,

oval

or mark on the top-right

corner of a film frame that

signaled to the projectionist

to

change over from one

projector

(Or film reel) to another (about every 15-20 minutes).


Click To Edit


Help

Insert Paragraph
Undoes the last command
Redoes the last command
Tab
Untab
Set a bold style
Set a italic style
Set a underline style
Set a strikethrough style
Clean a style
Set left align
Set center align
Set right align
Set full align
Toggle unordered list
Toggle ordered list
Outdent on current paragraph
Indent on current paragraph
Change current block's format as a paragraph(P tag)
Change current block's format as H1
Change current block's format as H2
Change current block's format as H3
Change current block's format as H4
Change current block's format as H5
Change current block's format as H6
Insert horizontal rule
linkDialog.show

Summernote 0.8.11 · Project · Issues

zoetrope: 19th-century optical toy consisting of a cylinder with a series of pictures on the inner surface that, when viewed through slits with the cylinder rotating, give an impression of continuous motion

praxinoscope: animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder.


Residual: payment made to an actor, singer, writer, etc. for repeated uses of their work

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Z-film: refers to a very low-budgeted,

independently-made, non-union movie



White balance: refers to electronically setting or '

color-correcting' a camera's white balance



Walk-on: minor role consisting of a single, brief

appearance on the screen


Celluloid: transparent flammable plastic made in sheets from camphor and nitrocellulose, formerly used for cinematographic film

stroboscopic: visual phenomenon caused by aliasing that occurs when continuous rotational or other cyclic motion is represented by a series of short or instantaneous samples at a sampling rate close to the period of the motion.

Emulsion: light-sensitive coating for photographic films and plates, containing crystals of a silver compound dispersed in a medium such as gelatin.


Zoptic: revolutionary special effects, 3-D process

invented by cameraman Zorian Perisic, incorporating a

camera system and a projector with synchronized

zoom lenses, to create the illusion of movement in

depth


U-matic: refers to 3/4 inch magnetic tape, originally a

professional cassette tape format now being supplanted by new digital formats; a competing tape format was

the inferior 1/2" VHS or beta



Abby Singer: nickname for the second-to-last

production shot of the day; the name was attributed

to famed American production manager and assistant

film director Abby Singer between the 1950s-1980s


Geneva drive: gear mechanism that translates a continuous rotation movement into intermittent rotary motion. The rotating drive wheel is usually equipped with a pin that reaches into a slot located in the other wheel that advances it by one step at a time

buyout: amount of money they give an actor to buy out the rights for them to be in that film or that commercial for that length of time that they want it

BEAUTY SHOT (screen): The last shot on a TV show, which is then used to run the credits

Squib: firework consisting of a tube filled with powder

(as a broken

firecracker)

that burns

with a fizzing

noise

Undercranking:

refers to the

slowing down of the frame rate of a camera, by shooting at less

than the standard 24 fps, so that the captured image, when normally projected, will appear to be in

fast motion; often

used to produce a comic effect









Change-over cue: small dot,

oval

or mark on the top-right

corner of a film frame that

signaled to the projectionist

to

change over from one

projector

(Or film reel) to another (about every 15-20 minutes).


Click To Edit


Help

Insert Paragraph
Undoes the last command
Redoes the last command
Tab
Untab
Set a bold style
Set a italic style
Set a underline style
Set a strikethrough style
Clean a style
Set left align
Set center align
Set right align
Set full align
Toggle unordered list
Toggle ordered list
Outdent on current paragraph
Indent on current paragraph
Change current block's format as a paragraph(P tag)
Change current block's format as H1
Change current block's format as H2
Change current block's format as H3
Change current block's format as H4
Change current block's format as H5
Change current block's format as H6
Insert horizontal rule
linkDialog.show

Summernote 0.8.11 · Project · Issues

zoetrope: 19th-century optical toy consisting of a cylinder with a series of pictures on the inner surface that, when viewed through slits with the cylinder rotating, give an impression of continuous motion

praxinoscope: animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder.


Residual: payment made to an actor, singer, writer, etc. for repeated uses of their work

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Z-film: refers to a very low-budgeted,

independently-made, non-union movie



White balance: refers to electronically setting or '

color-correcting' a camera's white balance



Walk-on: minor role consisting of a single, brief

appearance on the screen


Celluloid: transparent flammable plastic made in sheets from camphor and nitrocellulose, formerly used for cinematographic film

stroboscopic: visual phenomenon caused by aliasing that occurs when continuous rotational or other cyclic motion is represented by a series of short or instantaneous samples at a sampling rate close to the period of the motion.

Emulsion: light-sensitive coating for photographic films and plates, containing crystals of a silver compound dispersed in a medium such as gelatin.


Zoptic: revolutionary special effects, 3-D process

invented by cameraman Zorian Perisic, incorporating a

camera system and a projector with synchronized

zoom lenses, to create the illusion of movement in

depth


U-matic: refers to 3/4 inch magnetic tape, originally a

professional cassette tape format now being supplanted by new digital formats; a competing tape format was

the inferior 1/2" VHS or beta



Abby Singer: nickname for the second-to-last

production shot of the day; the name was attributed

to famed American production manager and assistant

film director Abby Singer between the 1950s-1980s


Geneva drive: gear mechanism that translates a continuous rotation movement into intermittent rotary motion. The rotating drive wheel is usually equipped with a pin that reaches into a slot located in the other wheel that advances it by one step at a time

buyout: amount of money they give an actor to buy out the rights for them to be in that film or that commercial for that length of time that they want it

BEAUTY SHOT (screen): The last shot on a TV show, which is then used to run the credits

Squib: firework consisting of a tube filled with powder

(as a broken

firecracker)

that burns

with a fizzing

noise

Undercranking:

refers to the

slowing down of the frame rate of a camera, by shooting at less

than the standard 24 fps, so that the captured image, when normally projected, will appear to be in

fast motion; often

used to produce a comic effect









Change-over cue: small dot,

oval

or mark on the top-right

corner of a film frame that

signaled to the projectionist

to

change over from one

projector

(Or film reel) to another (about every 15-20 minutes).


Click To Edit


Help

Insert Paragraph
Undoes the last command
Redoes the last command
Tab
Untab
Set a bold style
Set a italic style
Set a underline style
Set a strikethrough style
Clean a style
Set left align
Set center align
Set right align
Set full align
Toggle unordered list
Toggle ordered list
Outdent on current paragraph
Indent on current paragraph
Change current block's format as a paragraph(P tag)
Change current block's format as H1
Change current block's format as H2
Change current block's format as H3
Change current block's format as H4
Change current block's format as H5
Change current block's format as H6
Insert horizontal rule
linkDialog.show

Summernote 0.8.11 · Project · Issues

zoetrope: 19th-century optical toy consisting of a cylinder with a series of pictures on the inner surface that, when viewed through slits with the cylinder rotating, give an impression of continuous motion

praxinoscope: animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder.


Residual: payment made to an actor, singer, writer, etc. for repeated uses of their work

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Z-film: refers to a very low-budgeted,

independently-made, non-union movie



White balance: refers to electronically setting or '

color-correcting' a camera's white balance



Walk-on: minor role consisting of a single, brief

appearance on the screen


Celluloid: transparent flammable plastic made in sheets from camphor and nitrocellulose, formerly used for cinematographic film

stroboscopic: visual phenomenon caused by aliasing that occurs when continuous rotational or other cyclic motion is represented by a series of short or instantaneous samples at a sampling rate close to the period of the motion.

Emulsion: light-sensitive coating for photographic films and plates, containing crystals of a silver compound dispersed in a medium such as gelatin.


Zoptic: revolutionary special effects, 3-D process

invented by cameraman Zorian Perisic, incorporating a

camera system and a projector with synchronized

zoom lenses, to create the illusion of movement in

depth


U-matic: refers to 3/4 inch magnetic tape, originally a

professional cassette tape format now being supplanted by new digital formats; a competing tape format was

the inferior 1/2" VHS or beta



Abby Singer: nickname for the second-to-last

production shot of the day; the name was attributed

to famed American production manager and assistant

film director Abby Singer between the 1950s-1980s


Geneva drive: gear mechanism that translates a continuous rotation movement into intermittent rotary motion. The rotating drive wheel is usually equipped with a pin that reaches into a slot located in the other wheel that advances it by one step at a time

buyout: amount of money they give an actor to buy out the rights for them to be in that film or that commercial for that length of time that they want it

BEAUTY SHOT (screen): The last shot on a TV show, which is then used to run the credits

Squib: firework consisting of a tube filled with powder

(as a broken

firecracker)

that burns

with a fizzing

noise

Undercranking:

refers to the

slowing down of the frame rate of a camera, by shooting at less

than the standard 24 fps, so that the captured image, when normally projected, will appear to be in

fast motion; often

used to produce a comic effect









Change-over cue: small dot,

oval

or mark on the top-right

corner of a film frame that

signaled to the projectionist

to

change over from one

projector

(Or film reel) to another (about every 15-20 minutes).


Click To Edit


Help

Insert Paragraph
Undoes the last command
Redoes the last command
Tab
Untab
Set a bold style
Set a italic style
Set a underline style
Set a strikethrough style
Clean a style
Set left align
Set center align
Set right align
Set full align
Toggle unordered list
Toggle ordered list
Outdent on current paragraph
Indent on current paragraph
Change current block's format as a paragraph(P tag)
Change current block's format as H1
Change current block's format as H2
Change current block's format as H3
Change current block's format as H4
Change current block's format as H5
Change current block's format as H6
Insert horizontal rule
linkDialog.show

Summernote 0.8.11 · Project · Issues

zoetrope: 19th-century optical toy consisting of a cylinder with a series of pictures on the inner surface that, when viewed through slits with the cylinder rotating, give an impression of continuous motion

praxinoscope: animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder.


Residual: payment made to an actor, singer, writer, etc. for repeated uses of their work

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Z-film: refers to a very low-budgeted,

independently-made, non-union movie



White balance: refers to electronically setting or '

color-correcting' a camera's white balance



Walk-on: minor role consisting of a single, brief

appearance on the screen


Celluloid: transparent flammable plastic made in sheets from camphor and nitrocellulose, formerly used for cinematographic film

stroboscopic: visual phenomenon caused by aliasing that occurs when continuous rotational or other cyclic motion is represented by a series of short or instantaneous samples at a sampling rate close to the period of the motion.

Emulsion: light-sensitive coating for photographic films and plates, containing crystals of a silver compound dispersed in a medium such as gelatin.


Zoptic: revolutionary special effects, 3-D process

invented by cameraman Zorian Perisic, incorporating a

camera system and a projector with synchronized

zoom lenses, to create the illusion of movement in

depth


U-matic: refers to 3/4 inch magnetic tape, originally a

professional cassette tape format now being supplanted by new digital formats; a competing tape format was

the inferior 1/2" VHS or beta



Abby Singer: nickname for the second-to-last

production shot of the day; the name was attributed

to famed American production manager and assistant

film director Abby Singer between the 1950s-1980s


Geneva drive: gear mechanism that translates a continuous rotation movement into intermittent rotary motion. The rotating drive wheel is usually equipped with a pin that reaches into a slot located in the other wheel that advances it by one step at a time

buyout: amount of money they give an actor to buy out the rights for them to be in that film or that commercial for that length of time that they want it

BEAUTY SHOT (screen): The last shot on a TV show, which is then used to run the credits

Squib: firework consisting of a tube filled with powder

(as a broken

firecracker)

that burns

with a fizzing

noise

Undercranking:

refers to the

slowing down of the frame rate of a camera, by shooting at less

than the standard 24 fps, so that the captured image, when normally projected, will appear to be in

fast motion; often

used to produce a comic effect









Change-over cue: small dot,

oval

or mark on the top-right

corner of a film frame that

signaled to the projectionist

to

change over from one

projector

(Or film reel) to another (about every 15-20 minutes).


Click To Edit


Help

Insert Paragraph
Undoes the last command
Redoes the last command
Tab
Untab
Set a bold style
Set a italic style
Set a underline style
Set a strikethrough style
Clean a style
Set left align
Set center align
Set right align
Set full align
Toggle unordered list
Toggle ordered list
Outdent on current paragraph
Indent on current paragraph
Change current block's format as a paragraph(P tag)
Change current block's format as H1
Change current block's format as H2
Change current block's format as H3
Change current block's format as H4
Change current block's format as H5
Change current block's format as H6
Insert horizontal rule
linkDialog.show

Summernote 0.8.11 · Project · Issues

zoetrope: 19th-century optical toy consisting of a cylinder with a series of pictures on the inner surface that, when viewed through slits with the cylinder rotating, give an impression of continuous motion

praxinoscope: animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder.


Residual: payment made to an actor, singer, writer, etc. for repeated uses of their work

Create your own at Storyboard That


Z-film: refers to a very low-budgeted,

independently-made, non-union movie



White balance: refers to electronically setting or '

color-correcting' a camera's white balance



Walk-on: minor role consisting of a single, brief

appearance on the screen


Celluloid: transparent flammable plastic made in sheets from camphor and nitrocellulose, formerly used for cinematographic film

stroboscopic: visual phenomenon caused by aliasing that occurs when continuous rotational or other cyclic motion is represented by a series of short or instantaneous samples at a sampling rate close to the period of the motion.

Emulsion: light-sensitive coating for photographic films and plates, containing crystals of a silver compound dispersed in a medium such as gelatin.


Zoptic: revolutionary special effects, 3-D process

invented by cameraman Zorian Perisic, incorporating a

camera system and a projector with synchronized

zoom lenses, to create the illusion of movement in

depth


U-matic: refers to 3/4 inch magnetic tape, originally a

professional cassette tape format now being supplanted by new digital formats; a competing tape format was

the inferior 1/2" VHS or beta



Abby Singer: nickname for the second-to-last

production shot of the day; the name was attributed

to famed American production manager and assistant

film director Abby Singer between the 1950s-1980s


Geneva drive: gear mechanism that translates a continuous rotation movement into intermittent rotary motion. The rotating drive wheel is usually equipped with a pin that reaches into a slot located in the other wheel that advances it by one step at a time

buyout: amount of money they give an actor to buy out the rights for them to be in that film or that commercial for that length of time that they want it

BEAUTY SHOT (screen): The last shot on a TV show, which is then used to run the credits

Squib: firework consisting of a tube filled with powder

(as a broken

firecracker)

that burns

with a fizzing

noise

Undercranking:

refers to the

slowing down of the frame rate of a camera, by shooting at less

than the standard 24 fps, so that the captured image, when normally projected, will appear to be in

fast motion; often

used to produce a comic effect









Change-over cue: small dot,

oval

or mark on the top-right

corner of a film frame that

signaled to the projectionist

to

change over from one

projector

(Or film reel) to another (about every 15-20 minutes).


Click To Edit


Help

Insert Paragraph
Undoes the last command
Redoes the last command
Tab
Untab
Set a bold style
Set a italic style
Set a underline style
Set a strikethrough style
Clean a style
Set left align
Set center align
Set right align
Set full align
Toggle unordered list
Toggle ordered list
Outdent on current paragraph
Indent on current paragraph
Change current block's format as a paragraph(P tag)
Change current block's format as H1
Change current block's format as H2
Change current block's format as H3
Change current block's format as H4
Change current block's format as H5
Change current block's format as H6
Insert horizontal rule
linkDialog.show

Summernote 0.8.11 · Project · Issues

zoetrope: 19th-century optical toy consisting of a cylinder with a series of pictures on the inner surface that, when viewed through slits with the cylinder rotating, give an impression of continuous motion

praxinoscope: animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder.


Residual: payment made to an actor, singer, writer, etc. for repeated uses of their work

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  • Z-film: refers to a very low-budgeted, independently-made, non-union movie
  • Squib: firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise
  • White balance: refers to electronically setting or 'color-correcting' a camera's white balance
  • Undercranking: refers to theslowing down of the frame rate of a camera, by shooting at lessthan the standard 24 fps, so that the captured image, when normally projected, will appear to be infast motion; often used to produce a comic effect
  • Walk-on: minor role consisting of a single, brief appearance on the screen
  • Change-over cue: small dot, oval or mark on the top-right corner of a film frame that signaled to the projectionist to change over from one projector (Or film reel) to another (about every 15-20 minutes). Click To Edit Help Insert ParagraphUndoes the last commandRedoes the last commandTabUntabSet a bold styleSet a italic styleSet a underline styleSet a strikethrough styleClean a styleSet left alignSet center alignSet right alignSet full alignToggle unordered listToggle ordered listOutdent on current paragraphIndent on current paragraphChange current block's format as a paragraph(P tag)Change current block's format as H1Change current block's format as H2Change current block's format as H3Change current block's format as H4Change current block's format as H5Change current block's format as H6Insert horizontal rulelinkDialog.show Summernote 0.8.11 · Project · Issues
  • Zoptic: revolutionary special effects, 3-D process invented by cameraman Zorian Perisic, incorporating a camera system and a projector with synchronized zoom lenses, to create the illusion of movement in depth
  • Celluloid: transparent flammable plastic made in sheets from camphor and nitrocellulose, formerly used for cinematographic film
  • zoetrope: 19th-century optical toy consisting of a cylinder with a series of pictures on the inner surface that, when viewed through slits with the cylinder rotating, give an impression of continuous motion
  • U-matic: refers to 3/4 inch magnetic tape, originally a professional cassette tape format now being supplanted by new digital formats; a competing tape format was the inferior 1/2 VHS or beta
  • stroboscopic: visual phenomenon caused by aliasing that occurs when continuous rotational or other cyclic motion is represented by a series of short or instantaneous samples at a sampling rate close to the period of the motion.
  • praxinoscope: animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder.
  • Abby Singer: nickname for the second-to-lastproduction shot of the day; the name was attributed to famed American production manager and assistant film director Abby Singer between the 1950s-1980s
  • Emulsion: light-sensitive coating for photographic films and plates, containing crystals of a silver compound dispersed in a medium such as gelatin.
  • Residual: payment made to an actor, singer, writer, etc. for repeated uses of their work
  • Geneva drive: gear mechanism that translates a continuous rotation movement into intermittent rotary motion. The rotating drive wheel is usually equipped with a pin that reaches into a slot located in the other wheel that advances it by one step at a time
  • buyout: amount of money they give an actor to buy out the rights for them to be in that film or that commercial for that length of time that they want it
  • BEAUTY SHOT (screen): The last shot on a TV show, which is then used to run the credits
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