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MONTAGE. See the detailed descriptive definition given in the first
paragraph of Chapter 6, p. 112.
MOVIOLA. Trade name of an American model of editing machine.
The term is commonly used instead of EDITING MACHINE.
MULTIPLE EXPOSURE. Two or more exposures made on a single
series of film frames.
MUTE NEGATIVE. Picture negative of a sound film, without the
sound-track.
MUTE PRINT. Positive print of the picture part of a sound film
without the sound-track.
N NARRATAGE. Method whereby one of the characters in a story film is depicted as telling the story of the film.
NUMBER BOARD. Board momentarily held before the camera and photographed at the beginning of a take, recording the title of the film, number of the take and scene, in order to facilitate identification for the editor. (Number board and clapper are usually combined in one unit.)
O OPTICAL. Any device carried out by the optical department of a laboratory requiring the use of the optical printer, e.g., dissolve, fade, wipe. OPTICAL PRINTER. Apparatus for enabling images from one film to be photographed on to another film by means of a lens, used in making reduction prints and for special effects and trick work.
P PAN. To rotate the camera about its vertical axis during a shot. PANNING SHOT. Shot taken with a panning camera. PARALLEL ACTION. Device of narrative construction in which the development of two pieces of action is represented simultaneously by showing first a fragment of one, then a fragment of the other, and so on alternately. See CROSS-CUTTING.
PLAY-BACK. Reproduction of a sound-track in a studio during shooting to enable action or additional sound or both to be synchronised with it.
POST-SYNCHRONISATION. Recording and adding sound to a picture after the picture itself has been shot. . PRINT. Positive copy of a film.
R RELATIONAL EDITING. Editing of shots to suggest association of ideas between them.
RE-RECORD. To make a sound record from one or more other sound records ; especially to make a single sound-track from the several component tracks of a film. RE-TAKE. Repetition of a take.
RE-WIND, RE-WINDER. Apparatus for re-winding film. ROUGH CUT. First assembly of a film which the editor prepares from the selected takes, joining them in the order planned in the script but leaving finer points of timing and editing to a later stage. RUSHES. Prints of takes which are made immediately after a day's shooting so that they can be viewed on the following day.
S SLOW CUTTING. Cutting and joining of shots so lengthy that they follow each other in slow succession on the screen. SLOW MOTION. Means by which movement in a shot is represented as taking place more slowly than it did in reality. Opposite of ACCELERATED MOTION. SOUND-TRACK. Narrow path normally running along one side of
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