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| the person who designs the physical look of a film |
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| the gaffer's (lighting director's) assitant |
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| forcing theater owners to reserve movies without previewing them |
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| forcing theatre owners to show movies with unknown stars in order to get movies with established stars |
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| the director of photography |
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| adding color to black-and-white films |
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| film crew member in charge of making sure shots match up; sometimes called the script supervisor |
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| version of film the director delivers to the studio |
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| fictional movies that dramatize real-life events |
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| the person who finds the financing for a film and puts the package together |
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| movies that are not made by one of the major studios |
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| member of film crew who sets up and moves cameras |
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| early motion picture camera invented by Thomas Edison |
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| early motion picture viewer invented by Thomas Edison |
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| people who lead the actual day-to-day work of making a film |
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| motion picture patents company (152) |
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| company founded by Thomas Edison to control the movie equipment business; known as the Trust |
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| simple editing machine made up of two reels on which film is spooled over a small light |
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| film clips covering current events that were shown in theaters before the advent of television |
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| small early movie theaters |
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| amusement parlor boxes containing movie rolls of still pictures |
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| persistence of vision (150) |
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| an aspect of human vision in which the brain retains images for a fraction of a second after they leave the field of sight; this allows the illusion of movement from a series of still pictures |
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| the illegal copying and selling of movies |
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| the final phase of moviemaking, which includes editing and other technical improvements to the film |
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| the planning phase of moviemaking |
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| the actual shooting phase of moviemaking |
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| the inclusion of a product in a movie or other medium as a form of promotion for that product |
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| second unit director (163) |
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| movie directors in charge of shooting the scenes that do not require the stars |
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| the process of selling media content to individual outlets |
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| consumer products built around movie characters |
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| brief previews of coming movies shown in theaters |
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