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Glossary
Bi-pack: A form of film, used in color photography, which has two color-sensitive emulsions, essentially in contacts.
Bit : Small part in either a stage play or photoplay, but one with speaking lines; next step from non-speaking "atmosphere" or "crowd" appearances.
Blimp: A light metal cover, usually of cast aluminum, which fastens tightly over a camera, keeping from the stage and the recording microphone the familiar "clicking" noise of the camera.
Bloop: Sound made when in the reproductive projector a beam of light passes through a sound track which has been badly spliced or patched. Also the synchronizing marks on sound track and motion picture film.
Blooping patch: A black section, approximately triangular in shape, introduced over a splice on a positive sound track to prevent the noise (bloop) which the splice would otherwise cause during the reproduction. The patch effects a gradual diminution of light transmitted through the sound track, followed by gradual restoration of the original value. The patch may be applied with black lacquer or may be a triangle of black paper or film cemented on the track.
Blow-up: Still photographic term for a very large print made from a small negative.
Blows: When an actor forgets his part, one says that he "blows his lines."
Blue glass: A round or square piece of specially made blue optical glass; used by head cinematographers to translate the natural colors of a setting into the black, white, and gray values of the non-colored motion picture.
Blurb: Slang for short newspaper item in praise of a theatrical attraction.
Bon-bon : A type of spotlight.
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