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APPENDIX I
“Dolly”: a moving platform, with rubber-tired casters, on which the camera may be placed in taking sound pictures in which no outside noises of any kind are permitted.
Double: a person, not a member of the screen cast, who substitutes for a screen character in one or more scenes for any purpose whatsoever.
Double exposure: the placing of one film upon another; or the combination in one scene of two separately photographed parts.
Drums: large wooden wheels on which film is dried.
“Dubbing”: a method of doubling the voice on the screen after the photographing of the picture.
Dummy: a figure manufactured to substitute for real actors, particularly in the shooting of scenes involving danger to life.
Echometer: a device used to discover the source of film sounds which must be eliminated.
Exterior: a set representing an outdoor scene.
Extra: a person hired to fill in for scenes requiring characters other than the original screen cast.
Fading: the process of changing the amount of light admitted to the camera lens, in order to make a scene gradually appear or disappear. The directions jade-in and fade-out refer to this process.
Flash: the reshowing of a few feet of film to refer the spectator for any purpose to a scene previously viewed.
Film: a celluloid ribbon, usually inches wide, coated with a substance containing silver nitrate, highly sensitive to light, and perforated to fit the camera. For description of film used in recording sound, see Chapter X.
Flat: see Backdrop.
Frame: the rectangle made by one exposure of a film.
Insert: a photographed letter, telegram, etc., shown to further plot development of picture.
Interior: an artificial indoor scene.
Interlock: a direction indicating that camera and sound recorder are enmeshed.
Iris: see Diaphragm.
Jump: a break in the film action caused by improper matching of shots.
Klieg light: lights used to illuminate studio sets. These are not used for sound pictures.
Lap dissolve: the gradual fading of one scene into another.
Lead: the chief character in a motion picture.