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Talking Pictures
Arranger: A musical technician who balances values between instruments and voices by writing for each a part in the musical score, which was originally composed by another.
Ash-can: A form of carbon arc light spotlight rarely used today.
Atmosphere: Term used in studios to denominate anything, animate or inanimate, that emphasizes the fact that the scene is laid in a particular time or place.
Atmosphere actors: Minor players who by their appearance give a specific human character or racial tinge to a crowd scene.
Baby spot: Smallest sized spotlight; used for concentrated light on a small surface, such as a backlight on a player's hair, or for calling attention to some object, animate or inanimate, which has played or is about to play, a specific part in the unfolding of the dramatic action.
Backlight: Light from the rear focused on the hair or body of a person to secure the effect of sharp relief. Perhaps the most common technique used in modern artistic photography.
Balloon tires: A make-up term for circles under the eyes.
Banner: Form of theatre advertising printed on a long strip of cloth, paper, or board; frequently hung across a street at right angles to a theatre.
Beards: Casting office collective term for all actors with natural beards.
Billing: Stage and screen term for placing and size of type used in words advertising players in a specific picture. "Star billing" for Joe Doakes would be, "Joe Doakes in So and So"; "featured billing" for Joe Doakes would be "Martin Zilch in This and That with Joe Doakes."
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