Talking pictures : how they are made, how to appreciate them (c. 1937)

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Talking Pictures Film: A flexible, transparent support on which a lightsensitive emulsion has been coated, or a processed strip of such material containing a series of developed photographic or dye images. Filter: A glass or gelatin device placed before a camera lens to make certain photographic corrections. Filters are in various colors, red, yellow, green, blue, orange. To photograph a girl in a white dress against a horizon containing white clouds, a filter would be used in order to give the girl's clothes different values of white from the clouds, keeping her from merging photographically into the clouds. Five: A spotlight using a 5,000 watt incandescent globe. Fixing: The chemical process of making a developed image permanent by removing the undeveloped light-sensitive substances. Flag: A board, painted black, or a frame of black canvas, fastened to an adjustable standard which can bend up, down, or to either side to shade the rays of a light source. Flash: A short motion picture scene, usually occupying not more than three to five feet of film. Flash back: A short cut back. (See cut back.) Flat: A section of painted canvas, thin board, or the like, used in building either stage play or photoplay settings. Flood light: A type of lighting, or a type of light, which produces a wide, general illumination over a fairly large area. Flop : A picture which fails. Flutter: Sound department term for distorted sound effect caused when the reproducing projector runs at uneven and improper speeds, which leads to rapid and varying changes of pitch. [310]