Film as Literature
Terms
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copy deck
- Writing with light and the static representation of light.
- Photography
- Negative photographic image on transparent material, which makes possible the reproduction of the image.
- Negative
- Records the phases of an action
- Series Photography
- A cylinder-shaped camera that creates exposures automatically, at short intervals, on different segments of a revolving plate.(chrono-photographic gun)
- Revolver Photographique
- A single portable camera capable of taking twelve continuous shots;(another version of the chrono-photographic gun).
- Fusil Photographic
- Camera exposed to light, allowing radiant energy to "burn" a negative image onto a frame.
- Shooting
- Lab technician washes film with processing chemicals.
- Processing
- Where rapid succession of still photographs can be recorded onto perforated cellulose acetate.
- Frames
- Shoots light through the positive and prints it onto the raw stock to make and exact copy.
- Contact Printer
- Film is run through a projector which shoots through the film a beam of light intense enough to reverse the initial process and project a large image on the movie screen.
- Projecting
- The guage or width, of the film stock and its perforations, measured in millimeters.
- Format
- The first motion picture camera.
- Kinetograph
- Compact, portable, hand-cranked device that was a camera, processing plant, and projector all in one.
- Cinematograph
- Process by which the human brain retains an image for a fraction of a second longer than the eye records it.
- Persistence of Vision
- The illusion of movement created by events that succeed each other rapidly.
- Phi Phenomenon
- Occurs when a single light flickers on and off with such speed that teh individual pulses of light fuse together to give the illusion of continuous light.
- Critical Flicker Fusion