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Motion-Picture Nomenclature
Society of Motion-Picture Engineers
Adopted as Amended in Committee of the Whole, as Recommended in the Report of N'omenclature Committee.
Rules which Governed the Committee in its Recommendations
It was believed that —
(1) The Committee should give to words used in older arts and industries, their previous accepted meaning.
(2) Definitions of words should be selected which define their meaning rather than explain uses.
(3) Definitions should be as short as consistent with unquestionable identification.
(4) Definitions should not be included in the list which are so self-evident or of such wide use as to make our work seem cumbersome and trifling.
And that the following three classes of words only be defined :
(1) Expressions belonging to the projection industry alone, the meaning of which has long been accepted by the whole industry.
(2) Expressions from other industries used universally in motion-picture work, with specialized meanings.
(3) Expressions the meaning of which may be difficult to find in ordinary reference books or which are already used in more than one way in other industries.
Action — The director's command to the players to begin performing.
Back Focus — Properly called working distance.
Business — Action by the player; e. g., business of shutting door.
Bust — A small, magnified part of a large scene.
Camera — An expression used to command the photographer to begin taking the scene.
Change Over — The stopping of one projecting machine and the simultaneous starting of a second machine in order to maintain an uninterrupted picture on the screen when showing a multiplereel story.
Cine — A prefix used in description of the motion-picture art or apparatus.
Close-up — Scene or action taken with the character close to the camera.
Condensers — The lens combination which deflects the diverging rays of the luminant into the objective.
Collector Lens — The lens next to the source of light.
Converging Lens—T\\t lens nearest the objective.
Middle Lens — Of a three-lens combination, the lens lying between the rnilrr'O' ienc qnd rhe converging lens.
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