"irising" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1920, Frances Taylor Patterson, chapter 4, in Cinema Craftsmanship: A Book for Photoplaywrights, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, page 120:",
          "text": "Irising is frequently used instead of the fade to indicate the completion of a scene sequence and the beginning of a new series of scenes.",
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          "ref": "1976, Allan Casebier, Film Appreciation, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Part 1, p. 22:",
          "text": "Throughout the film [The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari] circular patterns are symbolic of chaos. Where irising began and ended a happy carnival sequence, an underlying feeling of chaos was created.",
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          "text": "The screen is black at first, till a brightly lit hole opens in it and an all-black silhouette stands at what we see, in a moment, is a doorway. This is the wide-screen equivalent of irising in Ford’s silent films.",
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