smell-o-vision

smellevision (alternative)
Smell-o-vision (alternative)

/ˈsmɛləˌvɪʒən/

From smell + -o- (interfix used for ease of pronunciation) + vision, probably popularized by Smell-O-Vision (proper noun) which was recoined in 1959 by Mike Todd Jr. (1929–2002), the American producer of the film Scent of Mystery (1960), as the name of the system invented by the Swiss scientist Hans Laube (1900–1976) used for the film. The term was possibly modelled after terms used in the motion picture industry such as Panavision (a company manufacturing cameras and lenses) and VistaVision (an early widescreen motion picture film format).
The variant spelling smellevision is possibly a blend of smell + television.

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"Magnificent!" shouted our supercritical photographer as he leveled his eye at this picture [of a ham]. […] Perhaps "smell-o-vision" is needed to enjoy fully this Easter treat. Or, better still, taste SUNNYFIELD HAM yourself—either smoked or cooked ready-to-eat.

1942 March 30, “We Disagree with the Photographer! [advertisement]”, in Henry R[obinson] Luce, editor, Life, volume 12, number 13, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 74, column 1:

SMELLEVISION REPLACES TELEVISION! Carl Stalling sez, "It will never work!"

1944 October 28, Michael Sasanoff, Bob Clampett, director, “The Old Grey Hare”, in Merrie Melodies, Burbank, Calif.: Warner Bros. Pictures; Vitaphone Corporation, →OCLC:

New model cars come out each year; the split-T and the soccer kick are new football offensive weapons. Black-and-white, then color TV and pretty soon smell-o-vision—that's progress.

1966 March, Joseph A. Brunton, Jr., “A Few Words from the Chief: ‘Is the Good Turn Obsolete?’”, in Robert Hood, editor, Boys’ Life: The Magazine for All Boys, volume LVI, number 3, New Brunswick, N.J.: Boy Scouts of America, →OCLC, page 46, column 3:

Other techno-mancers forecast fax in the home, "smellevision" (television sets equipped to emit appropriate odors for each scene), and luminescent paints that store sunlight during the day and glow at night. These new products would surely brighten the future.

1991, Michael Brian Schiffer, “A Portable Depression”, in The Portable Radio in American Life, Tucson, Ariz.; London: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 116:

The film includes some marvelous 3-D special effects as well as flashing lights, a bubblemaker, smell-o-vision, and a surprise from the skies as well as a live actor and a cannon.

1994, Corey Sandler, Econoguide 1995: Walt Disney World, Epcot and Universal Studios Florida, Chicago, Ill.: Contemporary Books, →ISBN, page 140:

Meanwhile, in far-off laboratories of the Military-Infotainment Complex (to advance upon Stuart Moulthrop's phrase) at Disney or—yea, verily, even unto—Apple, some scientists work on synchronous smell-o-vision with real-time simulated fragrance degradation shifting from fresh ink to old mold; […]

1995, Michael Joyce, “‘So Much Time, so Little to Do’: Empowering Silence and the Electric Book”, in Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics (Studies in Literature and Science), Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 97:

So, until Netscape comes up with Smell-o-vision, reading about and looking at food on the Web will have to stave off those hunger pains.

1999, Nora Paul, Margot Williams, “Food Resources on the Web”, in Paula J. Hane, editor, Great Scouts! Cyberguides for Subject Searching on the Web, Medford, N.J.: CyberAge Books, Information Today, →ISBN, part I (Life & Times), page 25:

Perhaps someday the SML (smelly markup language) standard will make it possible to connect a smell-o-vision peripheral to my FireWire port, and I'll be able to sniff the circle of boiled dough [a bagel] on the screen.

1999 July 1, Thomas H[ayes] Davenport, “ThinkTank: The Net Changes (Almost) Nothing”, in Abbie Lundberg, editor, CIO, volume 12, number 18, Framingham, Mass.: CIO Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24, column 3:

What will happen to our spiritual senses when the next step is taken, i.e. when rituals are performed purely in the realm of the virtual? […] [I]f the full sensory experience of the ritual is diminished by its reduction to the text, sound, and imagery now possible on the Web (I don't think we're ready for networked smell-o-vision), what in turn may be gained by working within these limitations, and what are the possibilities of transcending them?

2005, Stephen D. O’Leary, “Utopian and Dystopian Possibilities of Networked Religion in the New Millennium”, in Morten T. Højsgaard, Margit Warburg, editors, Religion and Cyberspace, Abington, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part I (Coming to Terms with Religion and Cyberspace), page 43:

The dream of layering smells onto movie-watching is nearly as old as movie-watching itself. This history is a pileup of interesting failures, technical experiments, and overweening optimism in smell-o-vision’s eventual appeal. […] Most interestingly, people who’d bought tickets to see these movies seemed sneakily pleased when smell-o-vision failed.

2021, Jude Stewart, “Introduction: Why a Book on Smell?”, in Revelations in Air: A Guidebook to Smell, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page xvii:

(originally and chiefly US, film, television, humorous) A (supposed) technology consisting of cinematography with the addition of olfaction, often portrayed as far-fetched or futuristic.

Mike Todd Jr.
Panavision
Scent of Mystery
VistaVision


principal photography

(cinematography) The phase of film production during which the film is actually shot, as distinct from pre-production and post-production.


restrike

(film) A new print struck from an old negative.


restrike

en-verb

restrike (third-person singular simple present restrikes, present participle restriking, simple past restruck, past participle restruck or restricken)

restrikes (present singular third-person)
restriking (participle present)
restruck (past)
restruck (participle past)
restricken (participle past)

(film) To strike a new print from an old negative.


round table

From Middle English rounde table, ronde tabell, equivalent to round + table.

(television) A television show segment in which pundits or reporters discuss current events.


sudsy

en-adj

sudsy (comparative sudsier, superlative sudsiest)

sudsier (comparative)
sudsiest (superlative)

By the end of that season, four sudsy series ranked in the Top 10: Dynasty in first place, Dallas second, Knots Landing ninth, and Falcon Crest tied for tenth.

2016, David Bianculli, The Platinum Age of Television […] , Anchor, →ISBN, page 140:

(television) Soapy; resembling a soap opera.


GH

(television) Initialism of General Hospital, an American daytime television medical drama first aired in 1963.


AFI

American Film Institute
w:American Film Institute

(film) Initialism of American Film Institute.


switcher

(television) Synonym of vision mixer (“device for selecting between video sources”).


slasher

Realizing there was a fresh market for a style of movie that studios had written off as niche material, Scream’s gonzo profits ushered in a wave of subsequent slashers trying to capitalize on a new generation’s discovery of the subgenre, as Gen Xers and Gen Yers alike learned (or re-learned) the fundamental pleasures of a good old-fashioned murder spree by a crazed killer, supernatural or otherwise.

2017 October 27, Alex McLevy, “Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2018-03-05:

(informal, film) A horror movie with graphic blood and violence; a slasher movie.


title track

主打曲

music, film: audio track with same name as the album, film etc. it is taken from

(music, film) An audio track having the same name as the album, EP or film that it is taken from.

(K-pop) The promoted song(s) of an album, most times the single(s), regardless of the title.


VOC

VSC

volatile sulphur compound/volatile sulfur compound

(television, China) Voice of China; international cultural television programming from China


tea wagon

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(US, film, slang) An audio mixing console on wheels.


windowing

en-noun

windowing (usually uncountable, plural windowings)

(film) The scheduling of the exhibition and distribution of a film, involving for example a period of theatrical showings before release on home media.


soliloquize

en-verb

soliloquize (third-person singular simple present soliloquizes, present participle soliloquizing, simple past and past participle soliloquized)

term-label

(American spelling, Oxford British English)

soliloquizes (present singular third-person)
soliloquizing (participle present)
soliloquized (participle past)
soliloquized (past)
soliloquise (alternative)

"Now, I am quite sure that our beautiful hostess has been making an assignation," soliloquised Charles, who, for want of something better to do, had been watching the various actions of the group in the principal chamber in the castle, […]

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 276:

I rubbed my hands with delight over my happy notion, and soliloquised aloud, "What a joy there is in going about doing good actions."

1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part III”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger […], London: Leonard Smithers and Co […], →OCLC, page 164:

(intransitive, drama) Of a character: to perform a soliloquy, to talk to oneself.


blacktress

[…] this literary/arts center presents Manifesto Night, with readings by such notable playwrights, poets, teachers, and blacktresses as John Baldessari, Max Benevidez, Pam Gregg, Sue Spaid, David Schweizer, and Ms. Vaginal Creme Davis.

(slang, film, rare) An African American woman who is a pioneer of the film industry.


prime time

prime-time (alternative)
primetime (alternative)
prymtyme (alternative archaic)

(television, radio) The block of programming on television during the middle of the evening, usually between 7:00 pm and 11:00 pm.


prime time

(television, radio) Showing or broadcasting during prime time.


overact

en-verb

overact (third-person singular simple present overacts, present participle overacting, simple past and past participle overacted)

overacts (present singular third-person)
overacting (participle present)
overacted (participle past)
overacted (past)

/ˌəʊvəɹˈækt/

He overacted his part.

If governments overact and become oppressive, the terrorists will have won, for their theory is that repression will eventually lead to revolution.

1989, Susheela Bhan, Terrorism: an Annotated Bibliography, page 116:

The scenework proves unsuccessful when Carmichael recalls not the source of her misandry but another episode of overacting, that of castratively biting off the moustache of an amorous man.

2016, Leslie H. Abramson, Hitchcock & the Anxiety of Authorship:

(chiefly acting) To act in an exaggerated manner.


overactor

/ˌoʊvɚˈæktɚ/

/ˌəʊvəɹˈæktə/


topic sentence

(authorship) A sentence at the beginning of a paragraph indicating the general matter to be discussed later in that paragraph.


slow motion

(cinematography) A technique of film, photography, and video to stretch time and allow visibility of things normally happening too fast to be conveniently examined.


high-hat

(television) A low camera mount without tripod legs.


flyaway

flyaways (plural)
fly-away (alternative)

Unless the TV crew has its own flyaway, the locals can still defeat a story they couldn't prevent reporters from covering by cutting it off at the pass, when it is being birded through their facilities.

1995, David D. Pearce, Wary Partners: Diplomats and the Media, page 43:

satellite television
satellite television

(television) A portable satellite television antenna.


procedural

/pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒ(ə)ɹəl/

It is only fitting that the investigation of place-based police procedurals begins in America, where the police procedural was invented and turned into a literary art form.

2000, Gary Hausladen, Places for Dead Bodies, page 35:

David Fincher’s horribly addictive samurai procedural, adapted by Andrew Kevin Walker from the graphic novel by Alexis Nolent, stars Michael Fassbender as the un-named titular hitman[…]

2023 September 3, Peter Bradshaw, “The Killer review – terrific David Fincher thriller about a philosophising hitman”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(literature, film) A type of literature, film, or television program involving a sequence of technical detail.


crosscut

crosscut (third-person singular simple present crosscuts, present participle crosscutting, simple past and past participle crosscut)

crosscuts (present singular third-person)
crosscutting (participle present)
crosscut (participle past)
crosscut (past)
cross-cut (alternative)

(film) To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.


freeball

freeballs (plural)
free ball (alternative)
free-ball (alternative)

But the freeballs it has done on its own, Farmer's Daughter, Hazel, Bewitched, have proven the gambit.

Then there was no dearth of venture capital to provide freeball pilots for the market.

1970, Federal Communications Commission Reports:

At this time virtually no active producers go so far as to commission a "freeball" script without prior consultation with the network.

1984, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance, page 138:

(television) A show that is developed by the station without participation by the network.


chu

From the Japanese ちゅっ (chu', onomatopoeia).

By the way, isn't it interesting that the Japanese hear the sound "chu" when someone kisses? In the US, we usually say, "smooch," "smack," "smerp," or even "swock." Now, everytime^([sic]) I kiss my husband, I'm listening to hear if it sounds like "chu."

1996 August 12, Kathleen Webb, “Re: Zoicite a guy!!!”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon (Usenet):

>Eldrick Tobin - Kiss worthiness of sig pending.
<chu!>
Seems fine to me. ^_^

2000 August 4, Fish Eye no Miko [username], “Re: [POLL] Which anime characters could be Ohtori students?”, in alt.fan.utena (Usenet):

movie Akio: [shoots a kiss to himself] Chu! ^.~

2000 August 19, Verthandi, “Re: [META] Ohha! Gally desu!”, in alt.fan.utena (Usenet):

(anime and manga fandom slang) The sound of a kiss.


end board

end boards (plural)
endboard (alternative)

(television, film) The logo or image that concludes an ident sequence, trailer, or advertisement.


free to air

(television, radio, of a broadcast) Transmitted without encryption.


noddy

From nod + -y, coined by John Fiske in 1987.

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Noddies are often filmed after the interview in question has finished.

(television) A cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding, used to cover an editing gap in an interview.

ademán en corte

a cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding, used to cover an editing gap in an interview


cume

cume (third-person singular simple present cumes, present participle cuming, simple past and past participle cumed)

cumes (present singular third-person)
cuming (participle present)
cumed (participle past)
cumed (past)

Despite the exhibitor complications, Goodbye To Language has already surpassed Godard’s most recent previous project, Film Socialisme, which cumed about $33K in the U.S in its 2011 release.

2014, Brian Brooks, Deadline Hollywood, “Godard’s ‘Goodbye To Language’ Says Hello To Weekend’s Best Specialty Box Office”, November 2, 2014

(film) Earn cumulatively at the box office.


cume

With a cume so far of more than $38,000, the film has already outgrossed Godard’s previous feature, “Film socialisme” (2010), despite having opened on far fewer screens.

2014, Justin Chang, Variety, “Why Godard’s ‘Goodbye to Language’ Demands a Wider 3D Release”, November 4, 2014

Taking into account the fact Wonder Woman opened lower than those other releases, these holds and its eventual $560-570+ million global cume after close of business Friday now all but assure Gal Gadot's Amazon princess will indeed finish its run north of $700 million.

2017, Mark Hughes, 'Wonder Woman' Has All-Time 4th-Best Third Weekend For Superhero Movie:

Compare cume to the number of shoppers that go into a supermarket. Let's imagine that the station has no listeners and the supermarket has no shoppers.

2011, Gary Dahl, Advertising For Dummies
If a particular station has a cume of 250,000, but most listeners are women and only a very few are within your target demo, then this 250,000 figure doesn't help you.

(radio, television) Cumulative audience.


cume

1988, Hugh Malcolm Beville, Audience Ratings: Radio, Television, and Cable
Cume ratings provide measures of net unduplicated audience for various combinations...

Cume persons represent a radio station's cumulative audience, or the estimated number of individuals reached by a radio station.

2016, Alan B. Albarran, Management of Electronic and Digital Media:


romcom

romcoms (plural)
rom-com (alternative)
rom com (alternative)

Shortening of romantic comedy. Probably based on the earlier sitcom.


road movie

For Timothy Corrigan, the road movie is ‘traditionally focused, almost exclusively, on men and the absence of women’ (1991: 143). David Laderman elucidates: Most road movies … retain a traditional sexist hierarchy that privileges the white heterosexual male, in terms of narrative and point of view. As in typical Hollywood films, the road movie tends to define the active impulse (here, to drive) relegating women characters to passive passengers and/or erotic destinations. (2002: 20)

2006, Ewa Mazierska, Laura Rascaroli, Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie, Wallflower Press, →ISBN, page 161:

(film) A film in which much of the action takes place during a journey, especially one involving overland travel.


Smell-O-Vision

Smell-o-vision (alternative)
smellovision (alternative)
Smellovision (alternative)
smellevision (alternative)
smellavision (alternative)
smell-a-vision (alternative)

/ˈsmɛləˌvɪʒən/

From smell + -o- (interfix used for ease of pronunciation) + vision, recoined in 1959 by Mike Todd Jr. (1929–2002), the American producer of the film Scent of Mystery (1960) which used the Smell-O-Vision system invented by the Swiss scientist Hans Laube (1900–1976), possibly modelled after terms used in the motion picture industry such as Panavision (a company manufacturing cameras and lenses) and VistaVision (an early widescreen motion picture film format): see the November 1959 quotation.

[…] John Livadary […] is en route to Rome to commence the score recording for "The Scent of Mystery,"^([sic]) new Mike Todd Enterprises pic production. The recording will be made via the new 35 mm. magnetic tape. The picture also introduces a new process, known as "Smell-O-Vision."

1959 September 28, “Two Everest Teams to Cut in Europe”, in Paul Ackerman [et al.], editor, The Billboard: The Amusement Industry’s Leading Newsweekly, volume 71, number 39, Cincinnati, Oh.: The Billboard Publishing Company, →OCLC, pages 2 and 14, column 3:

Yes, Smell-O-Vision is here. Film makers have toyed with ways to add smell to sight and sound in movies for years. Now Michael Todd Jr. thinks he has the answer. He's chosen the name purposely, he says, "to get the jump on those who will call it that anyway." The new process will perfume the film, "Scent of Mystery," to open at a special theater in Chicago. A magnetic track on the film will synchronize action to an "odor machine." Individual odor outlets fixed into each seat will guarantee that the whole audience knows the picture smells.

1959 November, “… Have You Heard …?”, in Howard Allaway, editor, Popular Science, volume 175, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Popular Science Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20:

Danny Stiles, WNJR, Newark, N.J., and WCTC, New Brunswick, N.J., recently ran a contest asking listeners to identify the mystery voice on Eddie Fisher's new record "The Chase." First prize was a bottle of Mike Todd Jr.'s perfume, "Scent of Mystery," also the title of his new Smellevision movie. Answer, of course, was Elizabeth Taylor.

1960 January 25, June Bundy, “Vox Jox”, in Paul Ackerman [et al.], editor, The Billboard: The Amusement Industry’s Leading Newsweekly, volume 72, number 4, Cincinnati, Oh.: The Billboard Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 23, column 3:

[B]y the early '50s we had seen so much that it took Smell-O-Vision to shock us into attendance, and more recently audiences have continued to dwindle while movies went from topless to bottomless to games that any number can play. What in the world will they try next?

1971 November 5, Brad Darrach, “Parting Shots: Now at Your Local Theater: A New Kind of Shoot-’em-up”, in Ralph Graves, editor, Life, volume 71, number 19, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 82, column 1:

Each Smell-O-Vision customer sat in a movie seat equipped with a system to pipe in smells directly to the nose. […] Theater-owners knew AromaRama and Smell-O-Vision wouldn't be around long. Curious customers came and went without getting too excited.

1990, Frank W. Hoffmann, William G. Bailey, “AromaRama and Smell-O-Vision”, in Arts and Entertainment Fads (Encyclopedia of Fads; I), Binghamton, N.Y.; London: The Haworth Press, →ISBN, pages 19–20:

In 1960, the movie A Scent of Mystery^([sic]) used the Smell-o-Vision system, which solved the distribution problem by including smell tubes at each seat. Although the smells were integrated into the mystery story line, the system was not a great commercial success.

2002, Stephen Wilson, “Biology: Microbiology, Animals and Plants, Ecology, and Medicine and the Body”, in Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology (Leonardo), Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press, →ISBN, page 60:

Words referring to technologies also fade out if the technology finds few long-term devotees. […] [A]udiences were unimpressed and smell-o-vision technology was stillborn. Hence the word smell-o-vision had a short life[…].

2005, Francis Katamba, “Words Galore: Innovation and Change”, in English Words: Structure, History, Usage, 2nd edition, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2010, →ISBN, part III (A Changing, Expanding Lexicon), page 185:

At the end of the 1950s, filmmakers experimented with Aromarama and Smell-o-vision. […] Smell-o-vision followed soon after. This time the smells came from vents beneath the cinema seats. It was used for a 1959 film entitled A Scent of Mystery.^([sic]) At best failing to work and at worst making members of the audience feel ill, the experiment faltered and failed.

2022, Susan Stewart, “The Twentieth Century: Cinema, Haute Couture and Celebrity Scents”, in Common and Uncommon Scents: A Social History of Perfume, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Amberley Publishing, →ISBN:

(originally and chiefly US, film, historical) A system that choreographed the release of odors into a movie theater during the projection of a film.


stacking

en-noun

stacking (countable and uncountable, plural stackings)

(television) A technique for keeping a captive audience by grouping together programs with similar appeal.


tween

en-verb

tween (third-person singular simple present tweens, present participle tweening, simple past and past participle tweened)

tweens (present singular third-person)
tweening (participle present)
tweened (participle past)
tweened (past)

The two most important and advanced ingredients of today's animation are tweening and morphing.

2004, D. P. Mukherjee, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics and Multimedia, page 117:

Simple motion tweening moves your objects in a straight line from here to there.[…]You can also combine frame-by-frame animation with tweened animation.

2005, Ellen Finkelstein, Gurdy Leete, Macromedia Flash 8 For Dummies, page 191:

The first parameter is the object that you want to tween, and the second parameter is the amount of time you want it to take in seconds.

2012, Christopher Griffith, Real-World Flash Game Development, 2nd edition, page 113:

(cinematography) To generate intermediate frames in an animated sequence so as to give the appearance of smooth movement.


camera move

(film, television) A specific deliberate movement effected by the camera, such as a pan, zoom, tilt etc.


Hollywood ending

en-noun

Hollywood ending (plural Hollywood endings)

(film) An outcome considered to be typical of certain movies produced in Hollywood, California, in which all desirable results are achieved, with protagonists being rewarded, antagonists being punished or destroyed, and positive sentiments (love, happiness, peace) prevailing over negative.


pullback

pullbacks (plural)
pull-back (alternative)

(film) The act of drawing a camera back to broaden the visible scene.


topspin

topspin (countable and uncountable, plural topspins)

Well remembered as a visual comedienne, she also had the verbal knack of putting all sorts of topspin on a line.

1994, Richard D. Heldenfels, Television's Greatest Year: 1954, page 70:

Flashdance had a quality known as top spin, in which the casting, the concept and the look and sound of the movie all come together.

2010, Justin Wyatt, High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood:

2016, Quentin Letts, "A Very English Scandal: sex, lies and a murder plot at the heart of the establishment by John Preston - review" (in Evening Standard, 28 April 2016) https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/a-very-english-scandal-sex-lies-and-a-murder-plot-at-the-heart-of-the-establishment-by-john-preston-a3236271.html
This fluent, readable book has certainly been polished with a fair degree of what Fleet Street feature editors once called topspin: “Give it some topspin, old boy. Make the copy sing.” In this John Preston more than succeeds.

(uncountable, television, film, publishing) An edgy, quirky or otherwise engaging quality that holds the interest of the audience.


lookbook

lookbooks (plural)
look book (alternative)

Mainly useful for feature films, the look book helps define the look in terms of the cinematography and design that you hope to achieve. It can contain stills from other films or photos as a visual reference […]

2012, Steven Ascher, Edward Pincus, The Filmmaker's Handbook:

(film) A showcase of photographs etc. describing how a film should look.


double-dip

en-verb

double-dip (third-person singular simple present double-dips, present participle double-dipping, simple past and past participle double-dipped)

double-dips (present singular third-person)
double-dipping (participle present)
double-dipped (participle past)
double-dipped (past)
double dip (alternative)

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(television, film) To re-release a movie or TV series, sometimes as a compilation or with additional features.


on-time marker

(broadcasting, television) A short marker (a pip in audio or an asterisk in data) that signals a precise instant in time.


gigging

(film, music, television, theater) The act of engaging in a musical performance, acting in a theatre production, etc.


ECC

en-noun

ECC (countable and uncountable, plural ECCs)

(television) Initialism of electronic camera coverage.


soft key

(film, of lighting) Gently highlighting; low-key.


answer print

The studio bosses were unwilling to approve the answer print of the novice director's debut.

(film) The first graded print of an edited film combining sound and picture, which is created for the client to view and approve; his answer decides when the rest of the copies of the film are printed or not.


floor manager

The floor manager came on the set and announced that the unseen director of the show had called cut.

2004, Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book: A Thursday Next Novel:

The floor manager counted me in and The James Whale Radio Show took to the air on Yorkshire Television in its usual slot.

2011, James Whale, Almost a Celebrity: A Lifetime of Night-Time:

The floor manager will be positioned somewhere out of shot but in JOHN'S eyeline and will hold up a hand with four fingers extended.

2012, Colin Hart, Television Program Making: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started, page 154:

(television, broadcasting) A manager of a television show, responsible for communication between the director and the crew.


shash

Even productions designed for office or home video viewing usually need a title sequence to mark off the empty tape, hiss and shash from the prepared recording […]

1997, Paul Kriwaczek, Documentary for the Small Screen:

No one sees shash now, but it was naked television. Shash was the term for those black-and-burst patterns that danced across the screen when there was nothing being broadcast.

2012, Paul Farley, Michael Symmons Roberts, Edgelands: Journeys Into England's True Wilderness, page 159:

(television) Synonym of snow (“random pattern of dots when there is no signal”).


midnight movie

Originating in 1950s American television, the term has undergone several changes over time (see Wikipedia article).

(film) A B-movie, often in camp style and with a retro theme.


lights, camera, action

(cinematography) The traditional cue to the members of a (silent) film crew at the beginning of a take.

الْأَضْوَاء، الْكَامِيرَا، اِبْدَأ

traditional cue at a beginning of a take


catch-breath

catch-breaths (plural)
catch breath (alternative)

[…] it is possible to obtain the desired effect by allowing sections or individuals within a section to take an unobtrusive catch-breath at different times.

1940, Van Ambrose Christy, Glee Club and Chorus: A Handbook, page 55:

(drama, singing) A pause to take a breath.


dailies

The chances are that a cameraman requesting that his dailies be printed at the middle of the scale is cheating himself.

1972, American Cinematographer - Volume 53, page 811:

(cinematography) Lightly edited versions of the previous day's filming; rushes.


screen name

(film, television) Synonym of stage name.


DT

DT (countable and uncountable, plural DTs)

DTs (plural)
DT. (alternative)
Dt. (alternative)
Dt (alternative)
D/T (alternative)

digital television
digital television#English

(television) Initialism of digital television.


reverse shot

(cinematography) A shot in which one character is shown looking back at another, unseen character.


slug line

(authorship) A line of abbreviated text at the beginning of each scene in a screenplay that describes the location and time of day.


authenticator

identifier

an identifier asserts identity; an authenticator verifies it

(agent noun) One who, or something which, authenticates, as:

(film, television) A person employed to check the accuracy and realism of a script.


spaghetti western

spaghetti western (plural spaghetti westerns)

spaghetti westerns (plural)
spaghetti Western (alternative)
Spaghetti Western (alternative)

From spaghetti + western, pasta being a famously Italian product.

“A Fistful of Dollars” and “Once Upon a Time in the West” are famous spaghetti westerns.

Over the years Django Kill has gained a reputation as the most violent Spaghetti Western and, though the film has tempered with age, it's still one of the oddest genre contributions.

2010, Howard Hughes, Spaghetti Westerns, Oldcastle Books, →ISBN:

(film) A motion picture depicting a story of cowboys and desperadoes set in the American Old West, but produced by an Italian-based company and filmed in Europe, notably in Italy.

فِلْم سْبَاغِيتِي

motion picture set in the American Old West, but produced by an Italian-based company


shoot off

en-verb

shoot off (third-person singular simple present shoots off, present participle shooting off, simple past and past participle shot off)

shoots off (present singular third-person)
shooting off (participle present)
shot off (participle past)
shot off (past)

(television) To overshoot the bounds of a set when filming, showing part of what lies outside it.


kitchen-sinky

en-adj

kitchen-sinky (comparative more kitchen-sinky, superlative most kitchen-sinky)

more kitchen-sinky (comparative)
most kitchen-sinky (superlative)
kitchen sinky (alternative)

From kitchen sink + -y. Sense 1 alludes to the phrase everything but the kitchen sink, sense 2 to the phrase kitchen sink realism.

Not that Warner's is merely a domesticated version of Euripides. It stars, after all, that least kitchen-sinky of actors.

2001 February 4, Susannah Clapp, “Mother knows best”, in The Guardian:

"Here was a kid who was imagining things and inventing things and none of this was odd to her, mum and dad being junkies. I didn't want to comment; I just present the story. And I didn't want to be too kitchen-sinky, because it's a heightened reality."

2007 April 29, Stephanie Bunbury, “Tide and emotions”, in The Age:

"He takes this seedy little story of seedy little people in seedy little rooms, and he makes it big and operatic and grandiose. I love that. It could have all been documentary-like or a bit kitchen sinky, and all rough and tough. […]

2011 February 7, Gina Picallo, “Helen Mirren interview”, in The Telegraph:

(drama) Of or pertaining to the kitchen sink drama; depicting social realities in an unstylized and direct manner.


analytical editing

(cinematography) A cut-in during a scene to highlight a closer view of some part of the same space.


television network

en-noun

television network (plural television networks)

(television) A grouping of television channels, generated at television stations, broadcast over a unified terrestrial or satellite system from which a subscriber may choose various packages to accept and purchase.


STB

(television) Initialism of set top box, a video signal converter for televisions.


hamfat

(US slang, acting) A low-grade actor; a ham or hamfatter.


UPI

Universal Pictures International
w:Universal Pictures

(film) Initialism of Universal Pictures International.


high concept

American Broadcasting Company
Barry Diller
Michael Eisner
Paramount Pictures
Simon & Schuster

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PIE word
 *ḱóm
From high (adjective) + concept (noun), variously attributed to the American media executives Barry Diller (born 1942) when he was working at the American Broadcasting Company in the 1970s, or Michael Eisner (born 1942) during his term as president of Paramount Pictures from 1976 to 1984.

Tim Burton's influence [in Batman Returns] loomed large, as half-finished high concepts, consistent only in avoiding the constraints of plot, motive, and logic, abounded.

1992 December, Jonathan Bernstein, “The Year in Movies”, in Bob Guccione, Jr., editor, Spin, volume 8, number 9, New York, N.Y.: Camouflage Associates, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 81:

[Steven] Spielberg's opinion relates well to the vision of high concept expressed by other Hollywood representatives: a striking, easily reducible narrative which also offers a high degree of marketability.

1994, Justin Wyatt, “A Critical Redefinition: The Concept of High Concept”, in High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood, Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 13:

An appealing and easily communicable idea for a work (such as a book, film, or television programme).

高概念

High concept, to the degree that it describes an actual phenomenon, seems to me to have little to do with the decline of the auteurists. Rather, it is an intensification of certain elements of the old system resulting from the exponentially rising production costs of films and the unpredictability of the exhibition market.

1999, Kristin Thompson, “Desperately Seeking Susan”, in Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique, Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 153:

It is important to note that the 'high-tech' visual style typical for high concept changes over time, just as technology advances and popular culture undergoes transitions. […] Another aspect of high concept in television news is the simplification of the story into a marketable concept as already discussed in relation to Hollywood movies.

2014, Chris Veits, “Literature Review”, in Conflict Coverage Promotion: High Quality or High Concept? A Multimodal Analysis of Claims-making in Conflict Coverage Promotional Sports of Al Jazeera English and CNN International, Hamburg: Anchor Academic Publishing, →ISBN, pages 20–21:

A style of work (such as a book, film, or television programme) characterized by appealing and easily communicable ideas.

korkea konsepti

style of work characterized by appealing and easily commmunicable ideas

Von Trier [Lars von Trier]'s high concept is too sloppily executed to suggest he really cares that much. Most of Dancer in the Dark ranges from mediocre (music and choreography) to laughably bad. The needlessly queasy camera movement and smeary visuals, acting that often feels like a read-through, and a script neither based on research (check out the American courtroom protocol) or any real logic. Its compensation is this: At least Dancer in the Dark is bad in a complicated way.

2000 October 6, Liam Lacey, “Bad, but in a complicated way”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ont.: The Globe and Mail Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2025-05-26:

This is a novel of ideas—brimming with high concepts and complicated philosophical questions. At the same time, it is a novel full of heart.

2009, Tayari Jones, “[Review of Rebel Yell]”, in Alice Randall, Rebel Yell […], New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury USA, →ISBN:

In fact, [Christopher] Nolan admits that it's a lot easier to simply watch the movie and grasp it from there. "That's the fun thing about Tenet for me, is that it's harder to talk about than just watch it and understand it," he said. Nonetheless, he gave additional insight into the machinations behind the highest of high concepts.

2024 February 23, Scott Campbell, “Christopher Nolan explains ‘Tenet’”, in Far Out, London, archived from the original on 2025-02-27:

(by extension, sometimes proscribed) The overarching idea or theme of a work, particularly one perceived as highly artistic or intellectual.


high concept

American Broadcasting Company
Barry Diller
Michael Eisner
Paramount Pictures


intertitle

The film made frequent use of intertitles: every scene change was accompanied by text describing the new location.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:intertitle.

(cinematography) A piece of static text inserted into the film to provide context or other information.

väliteksti

cinematography: piece of static text inserted into a film


shonen

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From the Japanese 少年 (shōnen, “few years”).

shōnen (alternative)
shounen (alternative)

(anime, manga) A style of Japanese animation and comics aimed at a younger male audience.


shonen

en-adj

shonen (comparative more shonen, superlative most shonen)

more shonen (comparative)
most shonen (superlative)
shōnen (alternative)
shounen (alternative)

(anime, manga) Being in the style of shonen comics or animation.


policier

(film, often italicized) A police movie, particularly one based on a police novel


cinema verite

(film) Alternative form of cinéma vérité.


cinéma vérité

Borrowed from French cinéma vérité (literally “truth cinema”).

bor

(film) A style of cinema that appears to be realistic, showing ordinary people in ordinary situations speaking and acting naturally.


mecha

From Japanese メカ (meka), from an abbreviation of the English mechanical.

Having deprived her of both her mecha and her lover, Masato looks set for a nasty end, but Miku arrives to save him.

1997, Helen McCarthy, The anime movie guide:

A transformation occurs when a mecha character, vehicle, or weapon unfolds and reassembles itself in a totally new form.

2002, Christopher Hart, Anime mania: how to draw characters for Japanese animation:

Porco Rosso evinces a deep fascination with mechanical objects of all sorts but it is by no means a mecha movie...

2006, Dani Cavallaro, The animé art of Hayao Miyazaki:

Each week the good guys fight the bad guys and vanquish them in a mecha battle, only to have the bad guys reappear intact the following week.

2007, Frenchy Lunning, Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire:

[…] to be a “lifter”—to pilot a mecha that can also transform into an air board […]

2007, Robin E. Brenner, Understanding manga and anime, page 170:

In this section, I show you mechas that are large enough to be piloted by humans from the inside. Although most of them are designed for combat, some function as transportation or construction mechas.

2011, Kensuke Okabayashi, Manga For Dummies, page 275:

(anime, manga) A large armoured robot on legs, typically controlled by a pilot seated inside.


on camera

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He isn't even on-camera talent: he just holds the cue cards.

(television, film) In or related to a role in front of the cameras, e.g. as a presenter or actor.


love interest

Many people are involved in relationships in which they do not know how their love interest feels about them. […] They may also fear knowing the truth, which may be that their love interest isn't truly interested enough in them to make a commitment to the relationship.

2012, Barbara R. Cohl, “What Unhappy Couples Can Teach Us”, in Success for Modern Day Relationships: Working with Dating, Engaged, and Married Couples, Lanham, Md., Plymouth, Devon: Jason Aronson, →ISBN, page 82:

Items from the "Love Styles" scale (Grote & Frieze, 1994) and the Hatfield and Rapson "Passionate Love" scale (Hatfield & Sprecher, 1986) were used to assess the type of love felt for the other person. One love style measured was eros, or passionate love (Lee, 1976). […] Items were: "I was physically attracted to my love interest"; "I felt we had the right physical chemistry between us"; "Just seeing my love interest excited me"; "I felt that I knew and really understood my love interest"; […]

2015, H. Colleen Sinclair, Irene Hanson Frieze, “Initial Courtship Behavior and Stalking: How Should We Draw the Line?”, in Roland D. Maiuro, editor, Perspectives on Stalking: Victims, Perpetrators, and Cyberstalking, New York, N.Y.: Springer Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 61:

Naturally, Fallout also plays to [Tom] Cruise’s waning appeal as a romantic leading man, supplying him with no less than three potential love interests.

2018 July 25, A. A. Dowd, “Fallout may be the Most Breathlessly Intense Mission: Impossible Adventure Yet”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2018-07-31:

(film, literature) One who is of interest as a (potential) partner in love.

vlam

one of interest as a (potential) partner in love

Some of the greatest and most widely-appreciated literary achievements have been wholly or mainly independent of love-interest or love-inspiration. Religious fervour, zeal for liberty, admiration of abstract virtue, philanthropy, desire to search the heart of man, and contemplation of the beauties and splendours of the outward world,—all these prove to be motives as capable of firing and exalting the imagination as the more directly personal stimulus of love.

1875 July, “the London Hermit” [pseudonym], “Essays and Sketches. On Love in Fiction.”, in Dublin University Magazine. A Literary and Political Journal, volume LXXXVI, number DXI, Dublin: George Herbert, […], London: Hurst & Blackett, Melbourne, Vic.: George Robertson, →OCLC, page 113, column 1:

"The Hand of Peril" is subtitled by its author, Mr. Arthur Stringer, "a novel of adventure," whereas I should label it a six-cylinder detective story. […] Incidentally, the ligament that holds these six morsels together is, of course, a "love-interest" between the detective and the chief criminal's putative daughter and assistant.

1915 September, Henry Brinsley, “Latest News from the Literary Trenches”, in Frank Crowninshield, editor, Vanity Fair, volume 5, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Vanity Fair Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 94, column 1:

The love interest is supplied by the Colonel's grandson and the daughter of the inventor of a horseless wagon.

1926 December, [Arthur Hornblow, Sr.], “Mr. Hornblow Goes to the Play”, in F. E. Allardt, editor, Theatre Magazine: For the Lovers of the Stage and the Screen, volume XLIV, number 309, New York, N.Y.: Theatre Magazine Company, →OCLC, page 72, column 2:

(film, literature) A romantic plot or subplot in a film or book.


Altmanesque

en-adj

Altmanesque (comparative more Altmanesque, superlative most Altmanesque)

more Altmanesque (comparative)
most Altmanesque (superlative)

(film) Displaying traits typical of a film made by Robert Altman (1925–2006), typically highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective and often a subversive twist.


punch up

en-verb

punch up (third-person singular simple present punches up, present participle punching up, simple past and past participle punched up)

punches up (present singular third-person)
punching up (participle present)
punched up (participle past)
punched up (past)

Sound films have to be loaded so that the sound is 5 seconds before the sound drum so a wow does not result when the film is punched up on the air.

1970, Larry G. Goodwin, Thomas Koehring, Closed-circuit Television Production Techniques, page 80:

In this illustrated example, camera 2 is punched up on the program buss and is therefore being sent out directly […]

1982, Thomas D. Burrows, Donald N. Wood, Television Production: Disciplines and Techniques, page 132:

(transitive, television) To switch (a source) into the main transmission.


seventh art

/ˌsɛvnθ ˈɑːt/

/ˌsɛvənθ ˈɑɹt/

Calque of Italian settima arte, which was coined by the Italian film theoretician Ricciotto Canudo (1877–1923) in 1921, considering filmmaking to be a new art combining the six previous arts of architecture, sculpture, painting, music, dance, and poetry. Canudo had previously used the term sesta arte (literally “sixth art”) to describe filmmaking around 1911 when he did not include dance in the set of preceding arts.

Georges Charensol's Panorama du cinema, originally published in 1927, […] was the bible of devotees of the seventh art.

1948, Jacques Queval, “Three French Histories of Film [book reviews]”, in Hollywood Quarterly, volume 3, number 4, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 454, column 2:

Because of the inherent interdisciplinarity of studying film—once called, appositely, the "seventh art"—film studies was among the first disciplines to embrace such theories and methodologies as feminism, semiotics, and structuralism.

2004 spring, Barry Keith Grant, “Diversity or Dilution? Thoughts on Film Studies and the SCMS [Society for Cinema and Media Studies]”, in Jon Lewis, editor, Cinema Journal: The Journal of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, volume 43, number 3, Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 90:

With some 40,000 professionals in attendance, Cannes is the world's largest annual convention, and a yearly thermometer for the temperature of the seventh art.

2008 May 14, Richard_Corliss, Mary Corliss, “Can Cannes still Do It?”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2008-05-16:

(film, chiefly preceded by the definite article) The art of making motion pictures; filmmaking; cinema.

Cinémathèque Française
Federico Fellini
Il bidone
Jean Epstein
Ricciotto Canudo

seitsemäs taide

art of making motion pictures — see also filmmaking


subchannel

[…] TV shows you watched when you were younger, you'll likely find them on the subchannels of your local TV stations — which are available free to anyone with a TV set and a good antenna.

2020, Michael R. Miller, My TV for Seniors:

It may well be that our viewers are going to say, "You know what? We don't care as much about 10801. We would rather have you rerun 'CBS News' on a subchannel and show your prime time entertainment in a lesser definition of digital television" […]

2001, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, Digital Television: A Private Sector Perspective on the Transition: Hearing..., page 98:

(television) An additional frequency owned by a television broadcaster used for less lucrative content.


songwriting

en-noun

songwriting (usually uncountable, plural songwritings)


remaster

en-verb

remaster (third-person singular simple present remasters, present participle remastering, simple past and past participle remastered)

remasters (present singular third-person)
remastering (participle present)
remastered (participle past)
remastered (past)

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(film) To create a new master copy by enhancing sound or picture quality of an older recording.

remasteritzar

to create a new master copy by enhancing sound or picture quality of an older recording


closed caption

"Closed" originally indicated that such captions were by default not visible until activated (opened) by the viewer turning them on, in contrast to "open captions" which are embedded in the video itself, visible to all.

(television) Text which can be displayed on a television or other video screen with suitable equipment, usually a transcription or description of audio material.

隱藏字幕 /隐藏字幕

text displayed on a screen with suitable equipment


letterboxing

(film) The practice of transferring film shot in a widescreen aspect ratio to standard-width video formats while preserving the film's original aspect ratio.


fantastique

Unadapted borrowing from French fantastique. Doublet of fantastic.

ubor

And certainly the film's free-floating fantasy and the blatant transparency of its narrative--its capacity to be seen for the artifice that it is--are a lot closer to fantastique than they are to the more logically circumscribed forms of fancy celebrated in this country.

1988 January 29, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Invitation to the Trance”, in Chicago Reader:

(film, literature) A genre of literature and film that is characterized by the intrusion of the supernatural into the realistic framework of a story.


creature feature

en-noun

creature feature (plural creature features)

"Godzilla" is one of the classic creature features.

(idiomatic, film, humorous) A horror film in which one or more monsters plays a prominent role.


intercut

en-verb

intercut (third-person singular simple present intercuts, present participle intercutting, simple past and past participle intercut)

intercuts (present singular third-person)
intercutting (participle present)
intercut (participle past)
intercut (past)

The film's plot revolves around Robert Adams […] whose older lover […] is in prison. He knows that he cannot send the love letters he wants to, so he writes and keeps them in a journal. Most of the film features voice-overs of his writing intercut with the memories of their life together.

1987 August 22, Michael Bronski, “Real To Reel”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 6, page 8:

(cinematography) To alternate between scenes from one sequence and scenes from another film sequence, often with the sequences to be perceived as simultaneous.


intercut

Smith's execution of the gangster who busted his car is the closest to some of the violence of Hill's early films, including a Peckinpahesque use of intercut slow-motion to track the gangster's harness-aided trip down the stairs to the dusty street.

2022, Brian Brems, The Films of Walter Hill: Another Time, Another Place, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 217:

(cinematography) An alternating sequence of this kind.


film crew

(film) The group of people, excluding the cast and producers, who are hired by a film company to produce a film.


staple character

en-noun

staple character (plural staple characters)

The mad scientist was a staple character in many horror films.

(writing, theater, film) A stock character, especially one that is overused.


theatrical film

theatrical film (plural theatrical films)

(film) A motion picture specifically made to be shown in a theatre, as opposed to a made-for-television film, or a film released directly to video.


senpai

senpais (plural)
senpai (plural)
sempai (alternative)

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Borrowed from Japanese 先(せん)輩(ぱい) (senpai). Doublet of sunbae.

(anime and manga, fandom slang) An upperclassman or elder student, in the context of Japan.


chyron

Genericization of the trademark Chyron, from Chiron (“centaur of Greek mythology”).

Chyrons (electronically enlarged words or numbers superimposed on the screen) might be used to illustrate and compare budget figures or to emphasize a quote.

1982, Judy Woodruff, Kathleen Maxa, “This is Judy Woodruff at the White House”, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 63:

Chyron recognition: A celebrity who needs no electronically inserted title or caption (a chyron) to identify him or her on television, especially news programs or interview shows.

1999, Rodger W[illiam] Claire, Entertainment 101: An Industry Primer, Beverly Hills, Calif.: Pomegranate Press, →ISBN:

The ABC broadcast also began to use Chyrons, which "generated brightly colored maps, charts, graphs, and illustrations and imposed text over pictures. A red slash, like the one on the cover of Time magazine, was superimposed on stories, in an effort to give ABC's newscast a distinctive identity."

2004, James T. Hamilton, All the News That's Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 170:

In the days before desktop video production software, such as Final Cut Pro and After Effects, making even a simple black and white title was a tough business. Creating broadcast-quality video titles required a specialized piece of expensive equipment called a Chyron generator and a highly skilled Chyron operator to run it. In fact, there was a time when Chyron operators made a good living because they were the only ones who knew how to make good, professional quality titles.

2006, Ian David Aronson, DV Filmmaking: From Start to Finish, Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 168:

The TV images that would shake American politics like none had since Watts in 1965 began innocuously enough: on NBC, above a chyron reading taped, it looked like a busy New York rush hour, though some are holding handkerchiefs to their faces. […] [T]he hemmed-in cops threw tear-gas canisters across the street at the apex of the marchers' U-turn […] grant park, chicago, illinois, the chyron now reads, and a woman's voice says, "The kids are still marching, it looks like a whole gathering of people with terrible colds"; […]

2008 May, Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 321:

Chyron. Words shown on a video screen. Also known as a super. A slash (/) indicates a line break in a Chyron message in a script.

2015, Charles Marsh, David W. Guth, Bonnie Poovey Short, “Broadcast/Podcast Writing”, in Strategic Writing: Multimedia Writing for Public Relations, Advertising, and More, 3rd edition, Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 13:

On the TV, a guest sits on the George Drudge couch. Below her a chyron reads: Chandice, Admits she eats her Kleenex. A chyron reads: Rick, Says he doesn't trust Amy, that's why he watches her poop. On the bus, someone shouts, 'I do dat, too!' On the TV, a chyron reads: Selena, Admits she's obsessed with burping.

2016, Michael Grothaus, Epiphany Jones, [London]: Orenda Books, →ISBN:

(US, television) A set of graphics or words at the bottom of a television screen, sometimes unrelated to the current viewing content.


chyron

en-verb

chyron (third-person singular simple present chyrons, present participle chyroning, simple past and past participle chyroned)

chyrons (present singular third-person)
chyroning (participle present)
chyroned (participle past)
chyroned (past)

(US, television, transitive) To display (material) on screen by this technology.


wireless cable

(television) A method of cable television distribution using prior wireless signal reception via a microwave antenna.


tragic hero

(drama) A hero who suffers from a tragic flaw that eventually causes his downfall.


production value

en-noun

production value (plural production values)

Soon the novelty of all-talking pictures wore off and incidental music began to make a comeback. It was, after all, an added production value.

1969, Toby Haggith, “Face the Music”, in Film Quarterly, volume 22, number 4, page 11:

The New York publicity people asked the studio people if the films were to be shot in colour or not so as to decide if whether to feature that production value in the promotional campaigns.

1994, Mark S. Miller, “Helping Exhibitors: Pressbooks at Warner Bros. in the Late 1930s”, in Film History, volume 6, number 2, page 189:

(film, performing arts, usually in the plural) A method, material, or stagecraft skill used in the production of a motion picture or artistic performance; the technical quality of such a method, material, or skill.


shakycam

For quotations using this term, see Citations:shakycam.

(film, television) A style of filming using a handheld camera, giving an on-screen effect of shakiness.


fandub

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The fandub Evangelion: ReDeath is shown every year at Fanime.

(US, anime) An anime title that has been dubbed by fans.


plotty

en-adj

plotty (comparative plottier, superlative plottiest)

plottier (comparative)
plottiest (superlative)

“Now Beacon, Now Sea,” his first memoir, is perhaps more straightforward than his voicey, plotty novels, and he indulges in novelistic and cinematic flourishes — cascading lists, lyrical still lifes — only occasionally.

2021 September 6, Eleanor Henderson, “Why Did Two People So Poorly Matched Stay Together So Long?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(informal, of a book, film, story) Having a complicated plot.


OVA

(anime) Initialism of Original Video Animation, a direct-to-video anime.


PIP

en-noun

PIP (countable and uncountable, plural PIPs)

(television) Acronym of picture-in-picture.


DTV

(television) digital television broadcast


PVR

personal video recorder
personal video recorder#English

(television) Initialism of personal video recorder.


digital video recorder

digital video recorder (plural digital video recorders)

personal video recorder
personal video recorder


featurette

→ French: featurette

The 1950 production program of the RD-DR Corporation (Reader's Digest-deRochemont) has been expanded to include six hour-length “featurettes” in addition to two longer pictures, it was announced yesterday by Louis de Rochemont, the producer.

1949 September 24, “8 Films in '50 Set by De Rochemont”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

With DVDs steadily joining VHS cassettes as extinct technology, what has become of the fun, insightful mixed bag that movie fans came to know as bonus features — the audio commentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes, bloopers, deleted scenes and alternate endings?

2018 April 6, Fabrice Robinet, “Oh for the Days of the Making-Of Featurette — Seriously”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(film) A short film of bonus material, companion to the main feature, frequently part of additional material in a home video release on LaserDisc, DVD, Blu-Ray.


costume drama

From the works of Jane Austen and novels including Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (1945), D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love (1945), Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1938), and Ian McEwan's Atonement (2001) to costume dramas such as Downton Abbey and Bridgerton, there's a particular narrative allure to houses full of secrets and staff quarters.

2023 November 13, Rosalind Jana, “Saltburn and the bizarre life of Britain's stately homes”, in BBC:

(film or television) A period piece featuring elaborate costumes which capture the atmosphere of the portrayed era.


swap out

swap outs (plural)
swap-out (alternative)

Luckily, on this show we have swap outs, so we don't have to wait.

(television) A pre-prepared food item used in place of an unfinished food item in order to cut down the overall preparation time during filming.


bullet time

First used with reference to the 1999 film The Matrix, and later to the slow-motion effects in the 2001 video game Max Payne.

...particularly in the use of the bullet-time technique...

2006, Dani Cavallaro, The Cinema of Mamoru Oshii: Fantasy, Technology and Politics:

(film, video games) A visual effect in which the camera pans around a slowed-down object, such as a flying bullet.


variety show

(radio, television, theater) A type of entertainment featuring a succession of short, unrelated performances by various artistes such as (depending on the medium) acrobats, comedians, dancers, magicians, singers, etc.


keyer

(television) A device that replaces a fixed colour in the image with some other picture or background; chromakeyer.


instant replay

(sports, television) A video recording of an action that can be replayed immediately after being recorded.


homodiegetic

The second part of the novella, including chapters 13-15, is more personal and reflective. Here, our apparently heterodiegetic narrator reveals himself to be homodiegetic: to be Tanner's sidekick BB Trane, previously referred to in the third person.

2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 185:

(literature, film) Of or relating to the narrator of a dramatic work who is also the protagonist or other character in the work.


exode

From Latin exodium, from Ancient Greek ἐξόδιον (exódion).

(Ancient Greek drama) The final chorus; the catastrophe.


intimist

en-adj

intimist (comparative more intimist, superlative most intimist)

more intimist (comparative)
most intimist (superlative)

However, he had not yet at that time fully displayed the principle of expression through intonation, the amazing ability to construct a line of verse in accordance with the most ready-to-hand, most colloquial speech - a characteristic which makes some critics group him with the intimist poets who write of the most complicated inner experiences, ostensibly inaccessible to the ordinary reader of today, and which makes others see him, no less mistakenly, as far too closely continuing the Futurists' methods of fashioning language.

1970, Donald Davie, Angela Livingstone, Pasternak, page 76:

Now its form is a psychological/intimist film which is less perceivable as a genre because it slips over so many (i.e., thrillers, adventure, historical reconstruction, etc.).

2006, Susan Hayward, French National Cinema, →ISBN:

For Barma, the close-up is an essential device to turn Macbeth into an intimist piece, but also to enhance realism and break away from the stage experience.

2013, Sarah Hatchuel, Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin, Victoria Bladen, Shakespeare on screen : Macbeth, →ISBN:

In actual fact, the project of redefining and purifying the Church's orthodox patrimony and the related re-establishment of an inward, intimist dimension of religion, which the head-on opposition in the early part of the century had unilaterally attributed to the Protestant enemy, was destined to gradually lose strength, with the setting of the sun on the generations of ecclesiastics who had themselves promoted the project and especially with the gradual disappearance of the Protestant menace.

2016, Giorgio Caravale, Forbidden Prayer, →ISBN:

(film, literature) Introspective; concerned with inner life and psychological experiences.


overscan

(television) The additional area around the four edges of a video image, outside of the safe area, that is not normally seen by the viewer.


blockbustery

blockbustery (comparative more blockbustery, superlative most blockbustery)

more blockbustery (comparative)
most blockbustery (superlative)

He's a very blockbustery screenwriter.

You're never sure that what you'll see will be completely safe and blockbustery.

2003 June 24, Michael Atkinson, “Time to Get Ill”, in The Village Voice, archived from the original on 2008-10-22:

(film, informal) Having one or more characteristics associated with a blockbuster, such as commercial success, a large budget, or glossy production values


spinner

From Middle English spynnere; equivalent to spin + -er.

Now, Cher was a spinner. Spinner is slang for a petite “chez chez la femme” who loved to assume the dominate sexual position on top. In other words, one could take a spinner and turn her around rapidly thus creating a circular motion and a geometrically induced orgasm.

2007, Hank Miller, The Admiral's Son, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 293:

For example, some johns used the term spinner to refer a petite female. This was exemplified by an exchange in the Dayton forum where individuals discussed the meaning of the term spinner:
 Purplehead: I picked up what looked to be a young thin WSW just south of McDs … She looked really good, about 100 lbs, and very cute, dark hair … a definite spinner..

2009, K.R. Blevins, T.J. Holt, “Examining the virtual subculture of johns”, in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, volume 38, number 5, Sage Publications:

He hadn't dated any Asian girls at Princeton, even though there were tons of them. They tended to be petite, and he wasn't into little girls, "spinners," as Andy called them.

2012, Amy Sohn, Motherland, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 112:

The girl peeking up at him under strawberry[-]blond curls was what men commonly referred to as a “spinner.” Petite, passionate, and pliable...one you could switch into a different sexual position without removing yourself from her heat.
[…]
"I'm going to fuck my little spinner now. She's had it too easy so far."

2014, Tessa Bailey, Staking His Claim, Fort Collins, CO: Entangled Publishing, →ISBN:

[…] petite women, whom he called 'spinners,' because, in comparison to 'heifers,' they are far more manageable.”

2016, LR Penn, The Syzygy, Lulu.com, →ISBN, pages 204–205:

(often vulgar, slang, film) Primarily in the adult film industry, an actress or prostitute with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.


sankyu

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From Japanese サンキュー (sankyū), from English thank you.


noirish

noirish (comparative more noirish, superlative most noirish)

more noirish (comparative)
most noirish (superlative)

His feature directing career began with the third installment of the "Alien" franchise, and before "Benjamin Button" all his movies were noirish thrillers of a sort.

2009 January 2, Dennis Lim, “Journey of a Director, From Night Creature to Tender Time Traveler”, in New York Times:

It must be acknowledged that the now global recognition his work has received […] has no doubt to do with his works’ noirish mixture of extraordinary artistic delicacy and ultra-creepy subject matter […]

2011 July 28, Terry Castle, “Do I like it?”, in London Review of Books, volume 33, number 15, →ISSN:

(film, art) Having the character of film noir.


chopsocky

en-noun

chopsocky (countable and uncountable, plural chopsockies)

chopsockies (plural)
chop-socky (alternative)

Punningly from chop suey (“stir-fried vegetable dish”), chop (“fighting blow”), and sock (“punch”). Coined by Variety magazine.

Chopsocky actioner with standard fight scenes and atrocious dubbing.

1983, Variety's Film Reviews: 1978-1980:

The chopsocky films garnered a small following in this country precisely because of their often-ludicrous dubbing and the unrealistically-hard smacking […]

2001, Lisa Morton, The Cinema of Tsui Hark:

[…] bad enough that we settle for the typical chopsocky fare or do we protest and demand more realistic portrayals […]

2003, Gary D Rawnsley, Political Communications in Greater China:

(uncountable, film, colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A genre of exaggerated martial arts films made primarily in Hong Kong and Taiwan during the 1960s and 1970s.


first team

(film) The actors who will actually appear in a scene, as opposed to the stand-ins, or second team, who take their places for the purpose of setting up the shot.


playwriting

playwriting (usually uncountable, plural playwritings)

playwritings (plural)
play-writing (alternative)


chaqu

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 插曲 (chāqǔ).

/ˌt͡ʃɑːˈt͡ʃuː/

Teo clarifies that chaqu were eventually differentiated from "full-fledged" musicals […]

2001, Corey K. Creemur, “Picturizing American Cinema”, in Soundtrack Available, →ISBN, page 403:

(film) An inserted musical sequence in a Chinese movie.


nondocumentary

The director James Cameron on the set of "Avatar," a 3-D space adventure and his first nondocumentary film since "Titanic."

2009 January 12, Brooks Barnes, “Hollywood Finds Headaches in Its Big Bet on 3-D”, in New York Times:

(film) Not a documentary, or not documentary in nature


deinterlace

en-verb

deinterlace (third-person singular simple present deinterlaces, present participle deinterlacing, simple past and past participle deinterlaced)

deinterlaces (present singular third-person)
deinterlacing (participle present)
deinterlaced (participle past)
deinterlaced (past)

A deinterlace filter for interlaced raster scanned video data receiving sequential fields of video data one pixel at a time with each pixel of video data being received during a pixel time and outputing a deinterlaced frame of video data for each field received, the deinterlace filter comprising […]

1984, System for spatially transforming images, US Patent 4472732 (PDF version):

I think that an improved receiver, which could do deinterlacing, doubling the frame rate, perhaps combined with some way of getting rid of subcarrier-related artifacts, might be MAC or something else.

1985, SMPTE Journal: Publication of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, volume 94:

One advantage of MPEG-2 video on DVD is that computers and future players can deinterlace it and display it on progressive-scan HDTV screens, with considerably better quality than today's interlaced screens.

1998, Jim Taylor, DVD demystified, page 117:

Bob deinterlacing provides good results when the image intensity varies smoothly, but it can soften the image because it also reduces the vertical resolution.

2013, Michael Parker, Digital Video Processing for Engineers: A Foundation for Embedded Systems Design, page 43:

(film, transitive) To convert (video footage) into a non-interlaced format; to remove one field from each video frame.


antiauteurist

en-adj

antiauteurist (comparative more antiauteurist, superlative most antiauteurist)

more antiauteurist (comparative)
most antiauteurist (superlative)

Compared with the macho rich-boy fantasies of Rafelson's previous work, there is something rather antiauteurist about this well-crafted film noir thriller.

1988 January 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “10 From '87”, in Chicago Reader:


auteurist

auteurist (comparative more auteurist, superlative most auteurist)

more auteurist (comparative)
most auteurist (superlative)

In the case of documentaries, our thinking tends to be less warped and biased, if only because the auteurist sensibility has never been too comfortable outside of fiction.

1988 February 5, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Process of Illumination”, in Chicago Reader:

(film) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of auteurism.


minimusical

Both shows lean heavily on their Jewish orientation, but where Fiddler is a folk musical of size and substance, Kaplan is a minimusical of sweetness.

1968 April 12, “New Plays: The Education of Hyman Kaplan”, in Time, archived from the original on 2010-10-29:

The video consists of a minimusical whose soundtrack sounds as if it were generated by an inexpensive electronic keyboard.

2009 January 25, Randall Stross, “Microsoft Songsmith Is Easy (if Painful to Hear)”, in New York Times:


grindhouse

grindhouses (plural)
grind house (alternative)
grind-house (alternative)

From grind + house.
* Perhaps from the grinding or cranking motion employed by early projectionists.
* Perhaps from bump and grind (dubious). The term may originally have been used for burlesque houses in the 1940s.

For Mr. Bava[…], the road from the grindhouse to the art house — or at least, the virtual art house of the DVD player — has turned out to be surprisingly, encouragingly short.

2007 April 10, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in New York Times:

(US film) A low-budget film theater that shows primarily exploitation films


overplotted

overplotted (comparative more overplotted, superlative most overplotted)

more overplotted (comparative)
most overplotted (superlative)

Pursuing its preposterous, overplotted premise, Time merrily confuses myth with fact--Romeo and Juliet and Arthur never lived, or they did so under other names.

1988 July 1, Lawrence Bommer, “Channel This, or Die, Yuppie Scum!; Time in a Battle”, in Chicago Reader:

(drama) Having an excessively elaborate plot.


mumblecore

From mumble + -core, coined by sound editor Eric Masunaga.

(film) An American independent film movement or subgenre of the early twenty-first century, characterised by low-budget production, focus on personal relationships between twentysomethings, improvised scripts, and non-professional actors.


hambone

hambones (plural)
ham-bone (alternative)

HAMBONE — An unconvincing blackface dialectician.

1946, Radio Alphabet: A Glossary of Radio Terms, Hastings House, page 38:

Ferrell is the ubiquitous hambone, an affably oblivious man-child prone to shirtless prancing onscreen.

2009 February 15, Rob Salem, “When comedy geniuses unite”, in Toronto Star:

(US slang, acting) A ham; an eager or inferior performer


auteurism

Samantha Who?, a comedy beginning tonight on ABC, makes quite a good case against auteurism.

2007 October 15, Ginia Bellafante, “Emerging From a Coma a Slightly Better Person”, in New York Times:

(film) A theory that considers a work of cinema or television as the work of its director, rather than of the actors or producers


showrunner

Those so-called showrunners, the thousand or so people who share both writing and managerial duties on television shows, have already been squeezed by conflicting demands from guild leaders and company employers.

2007 November 3, Brooks Barnes, “With Resolution Unlikely, Writers Guild Sets Strike for Monday”, in New York Times:

The person at the apex of the production triangle is the showrunner: in short, the boss.

2013, Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli, Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing, →ISBN, page 66:

(television) The person in overall charge of the production of a television series.


midroll

(photography, film) In the middle of a roll of film.


blue film

(slang, film, pornography) a pornographic film


multicamera

Involving or relating to more than one camera.

(television) Filmed using multiple cameras and camera angles concurrently, often used when filming in front of a live audience.


genlock

(television) A technique whereby the video output of one source, or a specific reference signal, is used to synchronize other sources.


package film

(film) A film consisting of several short films, often a feature-length compilation of short subjects in animation.


docufiction

en-noun

docufiction (countable and uncountable, plural docufictions)

docufictions (plural)
docu-fiction (alternative)

The Novel as Document: The "Docufiction" of Norman Mailer, Jay Cantor, and Jack Kerouac
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SAY that a novel-a work of fiction is based on the life of a real person, on events that really happened in the world […]

1988, Welch D. Everman, Who Says This?: The Authority of the Author, the Discourse, and the Reader, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 3:

Although not a new phenomenon as such, the genre of the docufiction film has grown spectacularly since the global and digital turns in the 1990s. Retrospectively attributed to the practices of such diverse filmmakers as Robert Flaherty, Jean Rouch, or Abbas Kiarostami, the genre, as the name suggests, applies to hybrid films that cross the traditional division of films between fiction and documentary. […] The docufiction genre generally, and Werner Herzog's recent films in particular, form crystals of a special kind.

2019, Jeroen Gerrits, chapter 4, in Cinematic Skepticism: Across Digital and Global Turns, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 73:

(film) A cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction.


silent film

silent film (countable and uncountable, plural silent films)

Lewis Stone as the Marquis gives one of the greatest performances in silent film I have ever seen.

2009, Neil McDonald, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 104

(cinematography, retronym) A film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue.


kohai

kohais (plural)
kohai (plural)
kōhai (alternative)
kouhai (alternative)

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Borrowed from Japanese 後(こう)輩(はい) (kōhai, literally “later cohort”). Doublet of hoobae.

ja-r

(anime and manga, fandom slang) An underclassman or younger student.


countershot

(film) A shot taken to contrast with another.


TAS

(television, informal) Initialism of The Animated Show/Series, an animated cartoon TV show version of a media property.


howdunit

howdunits (plural)
howdunnit (alternative)

After half a century, the whodunit was joined by the howdunit, in which the emphasis swung from the identity of the murderer to the method by which the murder was committed.

1969, Ellery Queen, In the Queens' Parlor, and Other Leaves from the Editors' Notebook, page 72:

(literature, film) A type of detective story in which the focus is not on the person who committed the crime, but on the manner in which it was committed.


whydunit

whydunits (plural)
whydunnit (alternative)

Connery takes over the interrogation and in the process beats the man to death. This much we know almost from the beginning, so the film is less of a whodunit than a whydunit.

1985, Laurence Urdang, Walter W. Hunsinger, Nancy LaRoche, Picturesque expressions: a thematic dictionary, page 420:

(literature, film) A type of detective story in which the focus is not on the person who committed the crime, but on the motives for committing it.


Aristophanean

en-adj

Aristophanean (comparative more Aristophanean, superlative most Aristophanean)

more Aristophanean (comparative)
most Aristophanean (superlative)

(dramaturgy, poetry) Of or pertaining to Aristophanes, his plays or his poetry.


antiplay

Samuel Beckett wrote several absurdist antiplays.

(dramaturgy) A play (dramatical production) that deliberately avoids the typical conventions of the play, such as a coherent plot and resolution.

antipeça

a play that deliberately avoids the typical conventions


Oprah

From Oprah Winfrey, a very influential talk show host, originally named Orpah after the Biblical figure, via metathesis.

He was on Oprah recently to talk about his new book.

(television, colloquial) The Oprah Winfrey Show, a popular long-running U.S. television talk show (1986–2011).


readthrough

(film, television, theater) An organized reading of the screenplay or script by all of the actors, prior to the actual performance.


achronological

Another reason was the apparently inspired pairing of screenwriter Dennis Potter and director Nicolas Roeg, two dark poets of psychic subtexts and achronological memory flashes.

1988 October 14, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Muddled Americans”, in Chicago Reader:

The Time Traveler's Wife tracks the achronological course of their lifelong love affair.

2003 September 26, Martha Bayne, “Things Are Going Very Well for Audrey Niffenegger”, in Chicago Reader:

(chiefly literature, film) Not chronological; proceeding through time in a nonlinear fashion


antidocumentary

Written by Sam Shepard and director-cinematographer Robert Frank, this 1968 antidocumentary emphasizes the relationship between Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and Peter's brother Julius[…].

1999 March 12, Lisa Alspector, “Me and My Brother”, in Chicago Reader:

(film) A documentary made in opposition to the normal standards of a documentary

antidocumentário

a documentary made in opposition to the normal standards of a documentary


antitheater

A.R.T. is a theater group, or rather an antitheater group.

1993 February 5, Bill Wyman, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader:

(dramaturgy) Works of theater that go against theatrical conventions

antyteatr

works of theater that go against theatrical conventions


kinestasis

en-noun

kinestasis (countable and uncountable, plural kinestases)

I used the same kinestasis technique that Chuck Braverman had used in his American History in Two Minutes.

2001, Jesús Salvador Treviño, Eyewitness: a filmmaker's memoir of the Chicano Movement, Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press, →ISBN, page 206:

(film) A rapidly-moving montage technique set to music.

Charles Braverman had seen Art and felt that a kinestasis short might be a welcome addition to the Smothers Brothers' Comedy Hour.

1970, David A. Sohn, Film: the creative eye, Dayton, Ohio: G. A. Pflaum, page 101:

(film) A film made with such a technique.


cold open

From cold (“completely unprepared; without introduction”) + open.

com

The best way to find out how the series you're writing for uses teasers or cold opens is to get your hands on a script.

2004, James Mendrinos, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Comedy Writing:

Colin Jost and Michael Che cover the same ground as the cold open, reporting on Trump’s clown car cabinet picks […].

2024 November 17, Zach Vasquez, “Saturday Night Live: Charli xcx has fun in otherwise middle of the road episode”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(television) An opening segment shown before the opening credits.


hammocked

(television) Scheduled between two other programmes, by hammocking.


ECMA

(film) Acronym of European Carton Makers Association.


push in

(cinematography) A zoom in which the camera physically moves towards the subject


scriptment

Blend of script + treatment. Coined by filmmaker James Cameron, possibly during his early involvement in the development of the Spider-Man film series.

(cinematography) A written work by a movie or television screenwriter that combines elements of a script and treatment, especially the dialogue elements, which are formatted the same as in a screenplay.


plot hole

plot holes (plural)
plothole (alternative)

Invited to collaborate with Hitch, Shaffer watched several of the director's previous films and noticed in North by Northwest a glaring plot hole; Cary Grant hides aboard a train that he has selected randomly yet, somehow, his pursuers lie in wait aboard the same train.

2012, Allan Brown, Inside the Wicker Man, Birlinn, →ISBN:

(authorship) A gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot.


soundman

soundmen (plural)
sound man (alternative)

(cinematography) A technician who works with the sound recording and sound effects for films and television.


omake

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Borrowed from Japanese お負け (omake, “extra, bonus”).

In this omake, the characters are breaking the fourth wall to talk to the audience.

(anime) A special video feature that accompanies an anime, such as a collection of deleted scenes or outtakes.


OEL

My Dead Girlfriend is one of the best OEL manga ever.

(attributive, of manga, anime, visual novels) Initialism of original English-language: Manga-, anime-style media originally published in English; (loosely, by extension) any non-Japanese media which features a manga or anime style.


tentpole

His [James Rolfe's] reasoning dances around the simple fact that has set this innocuous-seeming movie apart from its fellow blockbusters this summer—that it’s a tentpole genre film starring women.

2016 May 18, David Sims, “The Outcry Against the All-Female ‘Ghostbusters’ Remake Gets Louder”, in The Atlantic:

(US, attributive, figurative, film, television, theater) A large-scale entertainment production that is a major source of revenue for its studio, television network, or investors.


superdeformed

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(anime, manga) Alternative form of super deformed (“drawn in an exaggerated way, typically small and chubby, with stubby limbs and oversized heads”).


showrun

en-verb

showrun (third-person singular simple present showruns, present participle showrunning, simple past showran, past participle showrun)

showruns (present singular third-person)
showrunning (participle present)
showran (past)
showrun (participle past)
show-run (alternative)

But she dreams of having, and show-running, her own television program. In May, she’ll perform two nights as her character at Union Hall in Park Slope, Brooklyn — a neighborhood that character would probably struggle to find.

2023 March 14, Alexandra Jacobs, “Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok”, in The New York Times:

(television, rare, transitive) To act as a showrunner for (a television show).


endcap

(television) A logo or visual sequence immediately following a programme, identifying the broadcaster or production company.


pull-focus

...this image of pure light forms (through a pull-focus) into an image of a snow-covered field, in the middle of which is a mother holding her two sons.

1989, R Bruce Elder, Image and Identity: Reflections on Canadian Film and Culture, page 384:

To set up a pull-focus shot, frame your shot so that the two subjects, at different distances from the camera, are in view.

2007, Gary Hudson et al., The Broadcast Journalism Handbook, page 212:

(film, television) A filming technique whereby the focal point is drawn towards the viewer; also a shot (as part of an edit) in which such a technique is used. Also used attributively.


to be continued

(writing, television) Used at the end of an episode of a serial publication or program to indicate that the story continues in the next episode.


bit player

(theater, film) An actor who has a minor role in a production.


blow down

blow down (third-person singular simple present blows down, present participle blowing down, simple past blew down, past participle blown down)

blows down (present singular third-person)
blowing down (participle present)
blew down (past)
blown down (participle past)


Razzie

A retarded sense of meta is achieved whenever Leto’s Chapman goes on about the phony theatrics of film actors, but it’s Lindsay Lohan, as über–Lennon fan Jude, who breaks your heart, looking convincingly horrified that she has three undeserved Razzies while Leto has none.

2008 March 25, Ed Gonzalez, “Chapter 27”, in Village Voice, retrieved 2020-11-16:

(film) A Golden Raspberry Award, an award given for poor performances in the film world.


sex comedy

Just as the screwball comedy had well-defined elements which the films in the group share, the sex comedy shares conventions of narrative and visual patterning, not only across the originating mid-1950s phase, but observable in later examples, up to the present day.

2007, Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre, Wallflower Press, →ISBN, page 44:

(film) A genre of comedy film with sexual content or themes.


Bruceploitation

From Bruce (“Bruce Lee”) + -sploitation.

(film, martial arts) A genre of exploitation film that exploits the legacy of Bruce Lee through copycats.


falling action

(literature, drama) The events of a drama after the climax (or crisis) but before the denouement (or resolution).


AJA

(television) Initialism of Al Jazeera Arabic.


crossfade

crossfades (plural)
cross-fade (alternative)

(film, television) A fade in which the picture of one video track is diminished as that of another is brightened.


crossfade

crossfade (third-person singular simple present crossfades, present participle crossfading, simple past and past participle crossfaded)

crossfades (present singular third-person)
crossfading (participle present)
crossfaded (participle past)
crossfaded (past)
cross-fade (alternative)

(film, television, transitive, intransitive) To diminish the picture of one video track while raising that of another, so that they blend together.


very high frequency

(broadcasting, radio, television) The frequency area from 30 MHz through 300 MHz, commonly used for radio and TV broadcasting.


imouto

::laughs:: it's ok. Josh only tolerates it becuase ^([sic]) I'm his imouto and am only joking.

1999 January 10, Animeg3282, “Recent flow of posters from AFSM to AGFF and vice versa...”, in alt.games.final-fantasy (Usenet):

The mirror was going to take you, just like it - like it almost took Mom, and Dad, and imouto. I couldn't let it take you... I love you, onee-san. Please, can you ever forgive me?

1999 July 13, Vctr113062, “[TK3 fanfic] "Phoenix" Ch. 19, 2/4”, in alt.games.video.sony-playstation (Usenet):

Second, why do all the girls correspond so well to accepted anime character archetypes? (We have at the least, Triela the tsundere, Claes the incho, Rico the bokke, Angelica as the sick girl, and Henrietta the imouto.)

2007 February 1, Abraham Evangelista, “10 Year Retrospective - My Least Favorites”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

I have to say I didn't have trouble with the cannon fodder, although the imouto is *extremely* annoying and needs a good spanking. She's too old to be acting like a brat.

2011 January 30, Captain Nerd, “Jan '11 New Anime series - my thoughts thru 3 eps”, in rec.arts.anim.misc (Usenet):

I mean, an utilitarian analysis, knowing in hindsight that little imoutos are the best thing that can happen to any anime lover, would clearly have revealed that her constantly kicking my balls when we were small enough to share a bath tub was not to be mistaken for ill intent, and that her nagging about my bicycle riding style when I carried her on the back seat was just natural

2015 September 20, pataphor, “Bantu versus Baby5: A critique of utilitarianism”, in alt.angst (Usenet):

(anime and manga slang) A little sister.


contrasty

en-adj

contrasty (comparative more contrasty, superlative most contrasty)

more contrasty (comparative)
most contrasty (superlative)

His inherently less contrasty and detailed paper negative work, toward the end of his life, is at least more ambivalent and not so cold.

1982 February 6, Martin Krieger, “Stark/Erotic”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 28, page 10:

The WFM display above shows a very contrasty picture with clipped whites and blacks.

2004, John Jackman, Lighting for Digital Video and Television, page 25:

(photography, television) Having great contrast between light and dark areas (of a subject or photograph).


nonnetwork

(chiefly television) Not of or pertaining to a network.


Steadicam

Steadicams (plural)
steadicam (alternative)
Steadi-Cam (alternative)
steadi-cam (alternative)
Steadi Cam (alternative)
steadi cam (alternative)
Steadycam (alternative)
steadycam (alternative)
Steady-Cam (alternative)
steady-cam (alternative)
Steady Cam (alternative)
steady cam (alternative)

Steadicam, a revolutionary camera stabilizing device, was not shown, but CP did screen a sample film shot with a Steadicam.

1975, Filmmakers Newsletter, volume 9, page 46:

Tilman Büttner, the director of photography who operated the steadicam used to shoot the film, has turned the camera into one of its main characters, a contemporary film maker trapped in a journey through Russian history, with Mr Sokurov himself speaking its part.

2002 September 19, The Economist, volume 364, page 82:

(film) A stabilizing camera mount for hand-held film or video shooting; a camera mounted thus.


jump cut

jump cuts (plural)
jump-cut (alternative)
jumpcut (alternative)

Jump cuts used to be considered unacceptable mistakes. Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960) was the first time jumpcutting was used extensively in a narrative film.

2002, Michael Wohl, Editing Techniques with Final Cut Pro, Peachpit Press, →ISBN, page 57:

(film) A cinematographic edit in which a single continuous sequential shot of a subject is broken into two parts, with a piece of footage being removed in order to render the effect of jumping forward in time.

coupe sèche

A cinematographic edit in which the view of a subject jumps forward in time


test card

In 1967, the BBC needed a ‘test card’ for its new colour broadcasts, to be put on the screen when programmes were not being transmitted so engineers could adjust the quality of the picture.

2013, Chris McManus, Right Hand, Left Hand, Hachette, →ISBN:

(UK, television) A test signal, typically broadcast at times when the transmitter is active but no programme is being broadcast (often at startup and closedown).


chromakey

en-noun

chromakey (countable and uncountable, plural chromakeys)

chromakeys (plural)
chroma-key (alternative)
chroma key (alternative)

(television, film) The use of a particular color, usually either green or blue) as a key in a studio in order to allow one image to be seamlessly partially superimposed upon another.

croma

use of a color as key in a studio to allow an image to be partially replaced by other one


producorial

en-adj

producorial (comparative more producorial, superlative most producorial)

more producorial (comparative)
most producorial (superlative)
produceorial (alternative)

/ˌpɹɒd(j)ʊˈsɔːɹɪəl/

* from producer, after directorial from director

"We don't plan to act in it," Mr. Affleck says. "Our role is producorial."
Producorial?
"It's like professorial except it requires no accreditation, no intelligence and no actual expertise, which is why we qualify."

2000 September 10, Franz Lidz, “Ben Affleck Shocker: I Bargained With Devil for Fame”, in New York Times:

I have partners that I've worked with for over 30 years that sort of deal with all the more producorial roles in the film.

2007 April 12, Ivan Reitman, “interview with Ryan Parsons”, in CanMag, archived from the original on 2010-02-13:

(film) Of or pertaining to a producer; concerned with production (of a film)


produceorial

produceorial (comparative more produceorial, superlative most produceorial)

more produceorial (comparative)
most produceorial (superlative)
producorial (alternative)

I'm always just trying to get direct access to an audience, without having to go through the media hoops, or even theproduceorial hoops

2003, Kathleen Gallagher, “A dialogue with Ann-Marie MacDonald”, in How theatre educates: convergences and counterpoints with artists, scholars and advocates, University of Toronto Press, page 251:

(film, theater) Of or pertaining to a producer; concerned with production


multireel

Since then she has created a variety of multireel stories she calls Vladmasters, which she sells and presents in public performances.

2007 May 13, Rob Walker, “Toy Story”, in New York Times:


TNG

Star Trek: The Next Generation
w:Star Trek: The Next Generation

(television) Initialism of Star Trek: The Next Generation.


roughie

Wishman's film is typically classified as a roughie within sexploitation cinema.

2021, Rashna Wadia Richards, Cinematic TV: Serial Drama Goes to the Movies, page 97:

(film, slang) A film portraying rough sex.


preroll

en-noun

preroll (countable and uncountable, plural prerolls)

prerolls (plural)
pre-roll (alternative)

(film, uncountable) A period of time during which the camera rolls but before the action begins.


vblank

(television, computing) Abbreviation of vertical blanking.


hblank

(television, computing) Abbreviation of horizontal blanking.


genre fiction

genre fiction (usually uncountable, plural genre fictions)

Genre fiction encourages a focus on one aspect at the expense of others. This can produce an obsessive, powerful work. But a literary novel has, somewhere, to open out into the universal.

2014 April 22, Anita Mason, “Genre fiction radiates from a literary centre”, in The Guardian:

(authorship) Fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre (such as mystery, romance, or horror) with an existing audience.


Pikachu

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(video games, anime, manga) A small yellow rodent-like Pokémon species that has red cheeks and a tail shaped like a lightning bolt, and has electricity-related powers.


SPG

(Philippines, television, film) Initialism of strong parental guidance.


clapper board

(film) Alternative form of clapperboard.


postwork

principal photography
principal photography

(cinematography) Postproduction, work on filmed material after principal photography, as to improve image quality or synchronize sound.


Oscar bait

"O'Toole and Hepburn are memorable and matchless. You'll never see better performances. These are both Oscar bait outings.

1968 December 16, New York Magazine, volume 1, number 37, →ISSN, page 5:

Director Steven Soderbergh's Traffic was more typical Oscar bait, but the high-minded three-hour film about the drug trade along the US/ Mexican border was also inconsistent, and Soderbergh's fondness for mixing in grainy film stock and jerky handheld cameras didn't figure to endear him to older Academy voters.

2005, Steve Pond, The Big Show: High Times and Dirty Dealings Backstage at the Academy Awards, page 261:

(film) A film or films perceived to have been produced at least partially in order to be nominated for, and hopefully win, an Academy Award.


offcast

en-verb

offcast (third-person singular simple present offcasts, present participle offcasting, simple past and past participle offcast)

offcasts (present singular third-person)
offcasting (participle present)
offcast (participle past)
offcast (past)
off-cast (alternative)

From Middle English ofcasten, equivalent to off- + cast. Cognate with Danish afkaste (“to shed”), Swedish avkasta (“to crop, throw off, yield”). The noun is possibly derived from Middle English ofcast (“the refuse of plants”).

inh

The experiment to offcast Davis began in 1937 with That Certain Woman; "She's a lady," we are told.

1985, Tino Balio, The American film industry:

[...] and Paramount was not inclined to offcast its stars, the story was dropped.

White actresses were able to maintain a more multidimensional star persona than actresses of color, thanks in large part to their ability to off-cast themselves in challenging roles and control their off-screen image through publicity.

2015, Emily Carman, Independent Stardom:

(transitive, theater, television) To remove from the cast of a production.


nondiegetic

(film music) That does not occur as part of the action, and cannot be heard by the film's characters; background.


spec script

(film, literature) A screenplay for a movie that is written on spec and then purchased or sold on the open market, as opposed to one commissioned by a studio or production company.


AJE

(television) Initialism of Al Jazeera English.


AJ

en-proper noun

AJ (countable and uncountable, plural AJs)

AJs (plural)
A.J. (alternative)
A. J. (alternative)


VCC

Video Compact Cassette
w:Video Compact Cassette

(television) Initialism of Video Compact Cassette.