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GLOSSARY 271
Location: any place away from the studio where the cast is temporarily located for the photographing of scenes.
Long shot: a picture of a distant scene.
Lot: The grounds belonging to a motion picture company.
Mat: a device placed over the camera lens to outline the object being shot so as, for example, to give an impression of an object being seen through a keyhole.
Medium shot: photograph of a moderately distant scene.
Microphone or “Mike”: an instrument which catches sounds and transmits them to sound-recording devices. In some studios, separate microphones are used for transmitting the voices of men and women.
Mixer: a device used to control, modulate, and intensify the volume of voice in the making of a picture.
Negative: a film on which scenes are photographed.
Out-of-focus: a scene blurred by incorrect lens focus; sometimes used to produce artistic effects.
Pan: contraction of panorama; direction to camera man to swing camera without swinging tripod.
Photo-electric cell: see Chapter X.
Play-back: a device which repeats the voices, recorded on a wax record shortly after the film is completed.
Positive: printed reproductions from a negative.
Pre-view: an advance showing of an unreleased picture.
Print: see Positive.
Producer: the individual or organization assuming business and financial responsibility for the production of a film.
Projection machine: a mechanical device which throws a picture on a screen.
Projection room: a room reserved by a motion picture company for the private showing of pictures.
Prop: abbreviation of property; any article used in a scene of a moving picture.
Reel: approximately 1,000 feet of film.
Reflector: a silver or white-canvassed frame which reflects light upon an object.
Reissue: to release a film after it has once been shown and retired.
Release : to place a motion picture on market.
Remote control: the method by which sound is transmitted from a distant point on location to the studio, and there recorded.
Retake: to film a scene more than once.