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Glossary
second for silent pictures and twenty-four for talking pictures is a motion picture camera. A camera set for single pictures, each a separate unit, is a "still" camera. A type of very small hand camera with a very fast lens is called a "minnie" or candid camera.
"Camera": Traditional starting command of a director; used to start the photographing of every film scene.
Candids: Unposed photographs made in action by small cameras; widely used in publicizing motion picture personalities.
Cast: Characters in a stage or screen play.
Cat man: Circus term for trainer of lions; also used in studios when animal pictures are made.
Cells: Film cartoon-making term for the 20,000 individual pieces of celluloid upon which are drawn the progressive movements of the characters or objects in a motion picture cartoon.
Change over: In projection, the act of changing one projection machine to another, preferably without interrupting the continuity of projection.
Channel: See recording channel.
Chew scenery: An expression of stage origin meaning overact, as, "He chews scenery."
Cine-{sin'e) : A prefix used in some words referring to the motion picture art, or motion picture apparatus; e.g. cinematic, cinematographer.
Cinema: Standard term for pictures which give the illusion of movement when projected at sixteen pictures per second through an accepted motion picture projector, for silent films and twenty-four to the second for talking pictures.
Cin' e-ma-tog' -ra-pher : A cameraman who supervises the photography of a motion picture.
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