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persistance of vision
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Interactive Optical Phenomena, A characteristic of human perception, whereby the brain retains images cast upon the retina fo the eye for approximately one-twentieth oto one-fifth of a second beyond their actual removal from the field of vision.
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phi phenomenon
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1912, is the phenomenon that causes us to see the individual blades of a totating fan as a unitary circular form or the different hues of a spinning color wheel as a single, homogeneous color.
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frame
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The FRAMES of a strip of film are a series of individual still photographs that the motion-picture camera imprints one at a time.
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Edison
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Just interested in providing visual coompaniment for successful phonograph, 1889, Dickson assigned, coin operated entertainment machine, IMP show iddea of recording sound., was invente das accessory to sound, not sown sake.
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Kinetograph, 1891
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a stop motion device to insure the intermittent but regular motion of the film strip through the camera, a perforated celluloid film strip consisting of four sprocket holes on the bottom edge of each frame on a 3/4th wide strip, 35mm, allows to stop fraction second so shutter can admit light indv. frames.
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Kinetoscope
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The first pics recorded by kin-graph were viewed individ. in magniging lens of boxlike peepshow contin. 40-50 ft. film loop electric lamp shutter, device was-
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Lumiere Brothers
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factory phot equip Lyons, France, french name for light
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Cinematographe
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Lumieres studied Edison and made camera, projector, film printer,, patented -, word used today.
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projection
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Edison not interested at first, then successful money. projection opposite of kinto, each frame, held intmit. b4 projection lamp while shutter opens to emit light through the lens and project the film image onto screen.rotate blade 48 per sec.
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Latham Loop
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Lathams, Lambda Company, motion pics prize fights,with kinto then project. Eliminated film breakage past 50-100ft. small loop just above and below, extra set of sprockets.
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Celluloid
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successive cards as opposed to strips of cellloid
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Maltese Cross system
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An electronic signal processing device which forms a compound image for any pulse-echo ultrasound imaging system using a two-dimensional array transducer. The processing device obtains the detected sum of a series of cross-shaped apertures within the transducer in order to form a spatial compound image with the output of each cross-shaped aperture consisting of the product of the output signals from the orthogonal arms of the cross.
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nickelodeon
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1905, theaters sprung up just for films, originally a nickel.
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Movie Palace
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multifeatured luxurious 500-6000
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The Great Train Robbery, 1903
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1903
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Porter
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Edwin S. Porter (1870-1941) was a prominent innovator in the early years of cinema. He worked collaboratively, producing, directing, and editing a variety of films, including the first blockbuster motion picture, "The Great Train Robbery" in 1903.
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Oblique Angle
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camera is tilted so that the image appears diagonal; usually implies abnormality
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Pan
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camera turns laterally, one side to the other
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Tilt
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camera tilts in an angle up or down, takes viewer in action
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Dolly Shot
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or tracking shot, camera moves on wheeled vehicle with object being filmed
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Hand Tinting
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Film tinting is the process of adding color to black and white film, usually by means of soaking the film in dye and staining the film emulsion. The effect is that all of the light shining through is filtered, so that what would be white light is, in fact, another color.
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Rear Projection
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Rear Projection (back projection) The process of projecting an image onto a translucent screen from the back side rather than over the heads of the viewers as is usually done. Filmmakers use rear projection to film an action against a projected background, thus recording on film both the stage action and the rear-projected image. (See Process Shot.)
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Parallel Editing
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straight cuts between two different actions, taking place at the same time
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Birth of a Nation, 1915
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The Birth of a Nation (also known as The Clansman), is a 1915 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith; one of the most innovative of American motion pictures. Set during and after the American Civil War, the film was based on Thomas Dixon's The Clansman, a novel and play. The Birth of a Nation is noted for its innovative technical and narrative achievements, and its status as the first Hollywood "blockbuster." It has provoked great controversy for its treatment of white supremacy and sympathetic account of the rise of the Ku Klux Klan
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D.W. Griffith
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was a premier pioneering Academy Award-winning American film director. He is best known as the director of the groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance (1916).[1]
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Camera Movement
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camera can move as well as the objects or people adding a whole new dimension
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Close-ups
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emphasize a point, emotion, angles
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Continuity Editing
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Continuity editing is the predominant style of editing in narrative cinema and television. The purpose of continuity editing is to smooth over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a logical coherence between shots.
In most films, logical coherence is achieved by cutting to continuity, which emphasizes smooth transition of time and space. However, some films incorporate cutting to continuity into a more complex classical cutting technique, one which also tries to show psychological continuity of shots. The radical montage technique relies on symbolic association of ideas between shots rather than association of simple physical action for its continuity. |
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Matching Action
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Match on action technique can preserve temporal continuity where there is a uniform, unrepeated physical motion or change within a passage. A match on action is when some action occurring before the temporally questionable cut is picked up where the cut left it by the shot immediately following. For example, a shot of someone tossing a ball can be edited to show two different views, while maintaining temporal continuity by being sure that the second shot shows the arm of the subject in the same stage of its motion as it was left when cutting from the first shot.
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The Jazz Singer, 1927
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American musical film. The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the "talkies" and the decline of the silent film era. Produced by Warner Bros. with its Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, the movie stars Al Jolson, who performs six songs. Directed by Alan Crosland, it is based on a play by Samson Raphaelson.
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talking pictures
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A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.
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Warner Brothers
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The corporate name honors the four founding Warner brothers (born Wanskolaser), Harry (born Hirsz), Albert (born Aaron), Sam (Szmul), and Jack (born Itzhak), Jews who emigrated from Poland, Russian Empire to Ontario, Canada. The three elder brothers began in the exhibition business, having acquired a movie projector with which they showed films in the mining towns of Pennsylvania and Ohio. They opened their first theatre, the Cascade, in New Castle, Pennsylvania in 1903 (the original theater is still standing, and is being renovated as the centerpiece of the ongoing downtown revitalization in New Castle, hoping to attract tourists).[2] In 1904, the Warners founded the Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Amusement & Supply Company[2] (the precursor to Warner Bros. Pictures) to distribute films. Within a few years this led to the distribution of pictures across a four-state area. In 1912, Harry Warner hired an auditor named Paul Ashley Chase. By the time of World War I they had begun producing films, and in 1918 the brothers opened the Warner Bros. studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Sam and Jack Warner produced the pictures, while Harry and Albert Warner and their auditor and now controller Chase handled finance and distribution in New York City. On April 4, 1923, with help from a loan given to Harry Warner by his banker Motley Flint,[3] they formally incorporated as Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated.
The first important deal for the company was the acquisition of the rights to Avery Hopwood's 1919 Broadway play, The Gold Diggers |
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Casablanca, 1942
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Classic film set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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Michael Curtiz
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Casablanca director
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Humphrey Bogart
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Rick Blaine Casablance
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Ingrid Bergman
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Ilsa Lund
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Rick
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Blaine (Humphrey Bogart
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Ilsa
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Ingrid Bergman
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Victor Laszlo
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(Paul Henreid), a fugitive Czech Resistance Ilsa's husband
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Sam
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black piano player
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Captain Renault
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Claude Rains local police, under the command of Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains), a corrupt opportunist who says of himself, "I have no convictions
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Major Strasser
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German Major Strasser (Conrad Veidt) arrives to ensure that Laszlo does not succeed.
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Urgate
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Ugarte (Peter Lorre), a petty criminal, arrives in Rick's club with "letters of transit" obtained through the murder of two German couriers. The papers allow the bearer to travel freely around German-controlled Europe and to neutral Portugal, and from there to America. The letters are almost priceless to any of the continual stream of refugees who end up stranded in Casablanca. Ugarte plans to make his fortune by selling them to the highest bidder, who is due to arrive at the club later that night. However, before the exchange can take place, Ugarte is arrested by the
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"As Time Goes By"
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Their song
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WW II
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the war taking place
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Nazis
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Nazis and French collaboration ww11
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Refugees
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Related to the motif of exile is the motif of America, which is where all of Casablanca's refugees hope to go.
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Vichy French
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It is WW II before the Allied counterattacks. The Nazis have overrun Poland, Czechoslovakia and most of France. The French Vichy regime, a German ally, controls the colonial possessions of France, including Morocco. Victor Lazlow is the leader of the Czech resistance movement. He has escaped from a German concentration camp, fleeing to Casablanca with his beautiful young wife.
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Romantic Melodrama
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what Casablanca is
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star-crossed lovers
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ill-fated lovers
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Hollywood narrative
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are terms used in film history which designates both a visual and sound style for making motion pictures and a mode of production used in the American film industry between roughly the 1910s and the 1960s.
Classical style is fundamentally built on the principle of continuity editing or "invisible" style. That is, the camera and the sound recording should never call attention to themselves (as they might in a modernist or postmodernist work). |
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character goals
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Character goals can be simple or complicated, but they should always be clear. The goals can be long-term and/or short-term, tangible or intangible,
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problem solving
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characters must resolve problems
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deadlines
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question-and-answer logic, problem-solving routines
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journey
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characters stories
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Classic Hollywood technical style
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continuity invisible should never call attention to themselves
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Auidence identification
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Blending statistical expertise, multi-dimensional data process/analysis and the most advanced computer technology to provide a targeted direct marketing
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invisible style
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classic hollywood editing style
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seamless editing
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doesn't draw attention to self
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formal editing sequence
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hollywood editing sequence
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POV shots
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taken from vantage of cahracter in a film, identify with what char sees feels
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high key lighting
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brightly illuminates high contrast
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low key lighting
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shadow highlight subjects
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star lighting
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illuminate star's face
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studio system
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The studio system was a means of film production and distribution dominant in Hollywood from the early 1920s through the early 1950s. The term studio system refers to the practice of large motion picture studios (a) producing movies primarily on their own filmmaking lots with creative personnel under often long-term contract and (b) pursuing vertical integration through ownership or effective control of distributors and movie theaters, guaranteeing additional sales of films through manipulative booking techniques. A 1948 Supreme Court ruling against those distribution and exhibition practices hastened the end of the studio system. In 1954, t
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sound
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The early history of film sound Sound recording and the ability to photograph and reproduce motion pictures began intersecting at the very beginning...... In 1891 a Dr. Georges Demeny makes claim to synchronous sound....Even earlier, in 1891, Edison was making inflated claims of achieving synchronous projected sound films....(by Mark Ulano, C.A.S)
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cinematographer
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A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera (the art and science of which is known as cinematography). The title is generally equivalent to director of photography (DP or DoP), used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image. The term cinematographer has been a point of contention for some time now; some professionals insist that it only applies when the director of photography and camera operator are the same person, although this is far from being uniformly the case. To most, cinematographer and director of photography are interchangeable terms.
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hollywood
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A district of Los Angeles, California. Consolidated with Los Angeles in 1910, it has long been a film and entertainment center.
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sound stages
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sound stage is a soundproof, hangar-like structure, building or room, used for the production of theatrical motion pictures and television shows, usually inside a movie studio.
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sets
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t construction is a process by which a set designer works in collaboration with the director of the production to create the set for a theatrical, film or television production. The set designer produces a scale model, scale drawings (including, but not limited to: a groundplan, elevation, and section of the complete set as well as several more detailed drawings of individual scenic elements) paint elevations (a scale painting supplied to the scenic painter of each element requiring painting), and research about props, textures, and so on. Models and paint elevations are generally hand-produced, though in recent years, many designers and most commercial theatres have begun producing scale drawings on computer drafting programs such as AutoCAD or Vectorworks.
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industrial production
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Total output of U.S. factories and mines; a key economic indicator released monthly by the Federal Reserve Board.
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producer
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A film producer is someone who creates the conditions for making movies. The producer initiates, co-ordinates, supervises and controls matters such as fund-raising, hiring key personnel and arranging for distributors. The producer is involved throughout all phases of the film-making process from development to completion of a project.
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star
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main character actor
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director
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writer
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