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Cutting — Editing a picture by elimination of useless or unacceptable film.
Cut-Back — Scenes which are returns to previous action. Cut-In — Anything inserted in a scene which breaks its continuity., Developing — Making visible the latent image in an exposed film. Dissolve — The gradual transition of one scene into another. Director — The person who directs the actual production of the photoplay.
Double Exposure — The exposure of a negative film in a camera
twice before development. Double Printing — The exposure of a sensitive film under two
negatives prior to development. DousER — The manually operated door in the projecting machine
which intercepts the light before it reaches the film. Dupe — A negative made from a positive.
Effective Aperture — The largest diameter of a lens available under the conditions considered.
Equivalent Focus — The equivalent focus of a plurality of lenses in combination is the focal length of a simple thin lens which will under all conditions form an image having the same magnification as will the given lens combination.
Exterior — A scene supposed to be taken out of doors.
Fade-In — The gradual appearance of the picture from darkness to full screen brilliancy.
Fade-Out — The gradual disappearance of the screen-pictm*e into blackness. (The reverse of fade-in).
Feature — A pictured story, a plurality of reels in length.
Fixing — Making permanent the developed image in a film.
Flat — A bit of painted canvas, or the like.
Flash — A short scene, usually not more than three to five feet of film.
Flash-Back — A very short cut-back. Footage — Film length measured in feet.
Frame (verb) — To bring a frame into register with the aperture
during the period of rest. Frame (noun) — A single picture of the series on a motion-picture
film.
Frame Line — The dividing line between two frames. Intermittent Sprocket — The sprocket which engages the film to
give it intermittent movement at the picture aperture. Iris — An adjustable lens diaphragm.
Irising — Gradually narrowing the field of vision by a mechanical
device on the camera. Insert — Any photographic matter, without action, in the film. Interior — Any scene supposed to be taken inside a building. Joining — Splicing into a continuous strip (usually 1,000 feet) the
separate scenes, titles, etc., of a picture. Lantern Picture — A still picture projected on a screen by means
of an optical lantern or stereopticon.
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