Sponsor (July-Dec 1951)

TV DICTIONARY {Continued from page 35) FLARE Bright reflection flashing as a light from a mirror, usually from shiny appliances. Picked up by camera, flare usually creates an unwanted blackedout splotch in the picture. Can be eliminated either by powdering or waxing appliance, and sometimes by changing the angle of shooting. FLASH An extremely short TC scene. FLASH BACK Or cutback or extract from earlier action. To return to a previously shown action. FLAT 1 1 ) Lack of contrast in a TV picture or telecast film. <2) A board or other surface used in set construction; also referred to as a two-fold or three-fold flat depending on the number of folding wings on it. FLAT LIGHTING Lighting a scene or set with over-all brightness which does not provide any highlights or contrast or modeling of the stage or actors. Usually poor technique. FLAT-PAINTED Lettering or artwork that is not cutout or in relief. FLICK Page -turning method of change-over from one Balop to another. FLICKER Fluctuations in the over-all brightness of pictures. Not encountered in normal television operations. FLIES Space above the studio or stage extending from the top of the setting to the roof, housing the grid, flying apparatus, stationary drop mikes, lights. FLIP Command to turn to next card on easel shots. FLOOD or SCOOP Any light used to illuminate wide areas, usually a Kleig light of 5 KW. FLOOD LIGHTING Focusing full brilliance of ceiling and spotlights on scene. A lighting similar to flat lighting where flatness of the light is not supposed to spoil detail. FLOOR MANAGER or STAGE MANAGER Director's link with talent during show. Official on the floor of the television studio who, under the eye of the director, supervises production while a program is on the air and relays directions to various personnel. FLOOR PLAN Scaled print or plan of studio or stage upon which are marked the location of walls, settings, doorways, sound effects, working areas, etc. This floor plan is a prerequisite to all developments and is used by the producer-director to plot action, camera shots, and business prior to rehearsals in the actual setting. FLUFF or BEARD Any mistake, action, word, or phrase accidentally included or in any way distorted, resulting in an imperfect sound or picture. 2 JULY 1951 FLUORESCENT BANKS A type of 'cold" light used in the television studio for flat or fill light. FLUORESCENT LIGHT Mercury-vapor tubes coated inside with one of a number of materials which fluoresce, or glow, when exposed to the discharge inside a mercury-vapor tube. Used in TV as flat fill or balancing light. FLUTTERING Unsteady images on filmed show usually caused by buckled film in projector of poorly developed print. FLY To pull above the set the lights, scenery, or' properties in order to facilitate camera shos, shifting, storage. FLY IT Any suspended microphone, drop, etc. GAFFER Electrician on TV show who really understands the limitation of the TV camera. GAFFOON Engineer, shader, or sound man who efficiently does two or three effects at the same time. GAG A joke or comedy situation or device. '"Gag show" is made up of a succession of jokes or alleged jokes. GAIN The increase in volume of sound obtained in the amplifier from which the audio engineer adjusts the sound portions of a TV show. GEN. LOCK System of interlocking sync-generators between remote and studio. GET HOT (li Ad lib musical improvisation. The equivalent of "Jazz it up." (2) Direction to talent to start projecting, get into their parts. GETAWAY An offstage means of descent from raised flooring areas within a set. Also a passageway behind settings. GHOST Unwanted image appearing in television picture usually as a result of signal sion. reflection during transmis vice or "angle" used as an attraction for attention. GIVE Order to actors to become more a part of their character and to get into their parts and act more convincingly. GIZMO Generic term. In TV, something for which a more technical definition is lacking or else has been forgotten altogether by the speaker. GLASS SHOT Shot of action in a setting only part of which is constructed full-size, the remainder usually painted or applied photographically in mini GIMMICK <1) Particular quality, planned characteristics, or quirk which sets off a commercial or program from others that resemble it. <2> Any de ature on a sheet of glass suspended a short distance in front of the camera in such a position that the miniature will appear to be in the same scale as, and to merge with, the more distant full-size set seen through the clear part of the glass. Gives correct effect of depth and perspective. GOBO or FLAG A mat. Used to shield camera from lights. GO-HUNTING Turning a television cameraman loose to find interesting shots on a spontaneous program or any other program. GOOSENECK Mike which hangs from a gallows-support for use over tables when the talent is seated. Sometimes called a gallows mike. GRAY SCALE Achromatic color scale of a 10-step transition from white through grays to black where the intermediate grays differ from each other only through a proportional admixture of white and black. GRAY SCREEN Iconoscope chain without picture. GREEN SCALE Relatively new color theory that advocates use of five basic green colors for greater eye appeal and definition on screen. Vastly superior to old mixture of grays, miller gray scale, which used mixture of blacks and white pigments to get grays. GRID or GRIDIRON Metal framework close to the studio roof to which are anchored drop mikes, backdrops, props, scenery, lights, etc. GRIEF Any kind of agency, program, talent, etc., trouble. GRIP (DA handy man about the set. equivalent of a stagehand. (2) Studio or scenic carpenter. 61