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Talking Pictures
Dissolve: The gradual transformation of one photographed scene into another. In a lap-dissolve, the fade-in of one scene is superimposed upon the fade-out of the other. (See fade-in, fade-out.) This may be accomplished by double exposure or double printing.
Dolly : A type of movable camera platform.
Dope : Casting department term for any player of dissipated appearance.
Double exposure: The superimposing of one image upon another, upon the same piece of film.
Dow'a-ger : Casting department term for middle-aged actress of "society" type.
Down in the mud: An expression used to describe the voice of a player who speaks inaudibly. If the microphone cannot pick up the player's voice adequately, it is said, by the sound recording engineers, to be "down in the mud."
Dress men; dress women: Casting department term for minor part actors and actresses, of cultivated type, who are able to wear clothes well and appear to advantage in scenes depicting wealth or good breeding.
Dubbing: Re-recording a sound record by electrical means. The operation may involve transference from a film record to a wax record, wax to wax, film to film, or wax to film. Dubbing is used for editorial purposes, altering sound volume levels, and inserting incidental sounds, such as musical accompaniment, background noises, etc.
Dupe: A duplicate negative made by printing from a positive film, or by printing from a negative and reversing.
Ear: A rectangular, almost square, piece of board or black framed canvas which hangs on the knob of a light called a broad, or on the edge of the camera itself to keep illumination from a direct.focus on the camera lens.
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