Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1916)

Record Details:

Title:
Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers
Date:
1916
Publisher:
Washington D.C. : Society of Motion Picture Engineers
Volume:
Society of Motion Picture Engineers : incorporation and by-laws (1916)
Leaf #:
00086
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Cinematography -- Periodicals
Collection:
Technical Journals
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Preceeded by an unnumbered issue published in 1916 called: Incorporation and by-laws
Date Added:
December 28, 2023
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MOTION PICTURE NOMENCLATURE ADOPTED IN COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE SOCIETY change-over — The stopping of one projecting machine and the simultaneous starting of a second machine in order to maintain an uninterrupted picture on the screen when showing a multiple-reel story. dissolve — The gradual transition of one scene into another. double exposure — ^The exposure of a negative film in a camera twice before development. double printing — The exposure of the sensitive film under two negatives prior to development. fade-in — ^The graduation formation of the picture from darkness to full screen brilliancy. fade-out — ^The gradual disappearance of the screen-picture into blackness. (The reverse of fade-in). footage — Film length measured in feet. panoram (verb), panorama (noun) — ^The act of, or device for, turning a motion picture camera horizontally, to photograph a moving object, or to embrace a wide angle of view. single picture crank — (sometimes referred to as trick spindle) — The spindle and crank on a motion picture camera which makes one exposure at each complete revolution. tilt — ^The act of, or device for, moving a camera vertically while in use. vision — A new subject introduced into the main picture, by the gradual fading-in and fading-out of the new subject, as, for example, to visualize a thought.