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180-degree rule – 3D film – 3Delight – 3D LUT – 3ds Max – 4-point lighting setup – 16 mm film – 35 mm film – 70 mm film –

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Aa–Am

A and B editing – A roll – Aberration in optical settings – Above-the-line – Academy Awards – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – Accelerated montage – Achromatic doublet – Acousmatic – Acting – Actinic light – Action axis – Actor – Actress – Actuality film – Adobe After Effects – Adobe Premiere Elements – Adobe Premiere Pro – AVS Video Converter – AVS Video Editor – Aerial image – Aerial shot – Aliasing – Alliance Atlantis – Alternate-frame sequencing – Ambient light – American Cinema Editors – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists – American Film Institute – American Indian Film Festival – American National Standards Institute – American night – American Society of Cinematographers – American shot

An–Az

Anamorphic – Angle of view – Angle plus angle – Angular resolution – Animation – Animation camera – Animation director – Animator – Anime – Answer print – Anti-aliasing filter – Apparatus theory – Aperture – A-Plot – Arc lamp – Arri – Arri bayonet – Arri PL – Arri standard – Arriflex D-20 – Art department – Art director – Art film – Artificial light – ASA – ASA speed rating – Aspect ratio (image) – Assistant director – Audio engineering – Audition – Auteur theory – Autoconform – Autodesk – Autoethnography – Autofocus – Automated dialogue replacement – Available light – Avar – Avid Technology – Axial cut – Axis of action –

B

B roll – Back light – Backlot – Background light – Background lighting – Bailin bracket – Balloon light – Barrel distortion – Barn doors – Bayer filter – Beat (filmmaking) - Below-the-line – Best boy – Beta movement – Bigature – Billing – Bird's eye shot – Black-and-white – Blaxploitation – Bleach bypass – Blocking – Bluescreen – B-movie – Body double – Body makeup artist – Bolex – Bollywood – Boom operator – Boom shot – Boomerang (lighting) – Bounce board – Breaking down the script – Breathing (lens) – Brightness (lighting) – British Academy of Film and Television Arts – British Board of Film Classification – British Independent Film Awards – British Film Institute – Broadside (lighting) – Bronson Canyon – Burnt-in timecode – Butterfly (lighting)

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Ca–Cm

C-Stand – Cahiers du cinéma – Callier effect – Cameo lighting – Cameo role – Cameo shot – Camera angle – Camera assistant – Camera boom – Camera crane – Camera crew – Camera Dolly – Camera magazine – Camera operator – Camera shot – Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood – Candles per square foot – Cannes Film Festival – Casting Agent – Casting – Casting couch – Catering – Celluloid Closet – Celluloid ceiling – César Award – Changing bag – Character animation – Charisma – Chiaroscuro – Choker shot – Chroma key – Chromatic aberration – Chronophotography – Cinelerra – Cinema 16 – CinemaDNG – Cinemaphile – CineMagic – Cinemascope – Cinematheque – Cinematic techniques – Cinematographer – Cinematography – Cinéma vérité – Cineon – CinePaint – Cinerama – Circle of confusion – Circle-Vision 360 – Clapperboard – Clapper loader – Close shot – Close-up – Closed captioning – Closing credits

Cn–Cz

Cold open – Color conversion filter – Color corrected fluorescent light – Color correction – Color gel – Color grading – Color rendering index – Color timer – Colour-separation overlay – Columbia Pictures – Compositing – Composition – Computer-generated imagery – Continuity – Continuity editing – Continuity clerk – Cooke triplet lens – Costume design – Costume designer – Costume drama – Costume supervisor – Costumer – Crafts service – Crane shot – Crashbox – Creative Artists Agency – Creative geography – Cross cutting – Cross lighting – Cross-dressing in film and television – Cue (theatrical) – Cult film – Cutaway – Cut in – Cutting on action

D

Daily editor log – Daily rushes – Dance film – Day for night – Deadspot (lighting) – Deep focus – Depth of field – Depth-of-field adapter – Development – Development hell – Dialogue editor – Dichroic lenses – Diegetic sound – Diffraction – Diffuser (lighting) – Digital audio – Digital audio tape recorder – Digital audio workstation – Digital cinema – Digital Cinema Initiatives – Digital cinematography – Digital compositing – Digital film – Digital grading – Digital image processing – Digital intermediate – Digital Light Processing – Digital negative – Digital projection – Digital Theatre System – Digital video – Digital Visual Interface – Digital zoom – Dimmer (lighting) – Direct broadcast satellite – Direct to Disk Recording – Director (film) – Director's cut – Directors Guild of America – Dissolve (film) – DMX (lighting) – Docudrama – Documentary film – Dolby Digital – Dolly grip – Dolly shot – Dolly zoom – Double-system recording – Douser (lighting) – DPX file format – Drawn on film animation – Dream sequence – DreamWorks – DreamWorks Animation – Drug movies – Dubbing – Dutch angle – DV – DVD – Dynamic composition – Dykstraflex –

E

Eclair camera – Edge code – Edit decision list – Editor's cut – Effects light – Electrotachyscope – Ellipsoidal – Ellipsoidal reflector spot light – End credits – Entertainment law – Eroticism in film – Establishing shot – Evangelion shot – Executive producer (motion picture) – Experimental filmmaker – Exposure latitude – Expressionism (film) – Extra – Extreme close-up shot – Extreme long shot – Eye-level camera angle – Eyepiece –

F

Fade-in – Fade-out – Fan film – Fast cutting – Fast motion – Feminist film theory – Field of view – Fill light – Film – Film Academy – Film colorization – Film crew – Film critic – Film criticism – Film director – Film distributor – Film editing – Film editor – Film festival – Film format – Film gate – Film genre – Film institutes – Film leader – Filmmaking – Film modification – Film noir – Film-out – Film plane – Film preservation – Film production – Film producer – Film punctuation – Film rating systems – Film recorder – Film restoration – Film scanner – Film school – Film score – Film speed – Film stock – Film styles – Film technique – Film theory – Film timing – Film treatment – Filming production roles – Filmizing – Filter (photography) – Final cut privilege – Final Cut Pro – Fine cut – First National Pictures – Fisheye lens – Flange focal distance – Flashing arrow – Flatbed editor – Flicker fusion threshold – F-number – Focal length – Focus (optics) – Focus puller – Focusing screen – Foley artist – Follow focus – Follow shot – Followspot light – Forced perspective – Foreshadowing – Formalist film theory – Found footage – Fourth wall – Frame – Frame composition – Frame rate – Frazier lens – Freeze frame shot – French hours – French Impressionist Cinema – Fresnel lantern – Fresnel lens – F-stop – Full frame – Full shot

G

Gaffer – Gaffer tape – Garbage matte – Genesis – Genie Award – Genres – German Expressionism – Gobo (lighting) – Go motion – Godspot effect – Golden Globe Awards – Greenlight – Greensman – Grip –

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Hand-held camera – Hard light – Head-on shot – Heterodiegetic – High-angle shot – High camera angle – High Definition – High-intensity discharge lamp – High-key lighting – High speed camera – History of cinema – Hollywood – Hollywood accounting – Hollywood cycles – Hollywood North – HandBrake – The Hollywood Reporter – Home video – Horror film – Hydrargyrum Medium-Arc Iodide lamp – Hyperfocal distance –

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IATSE – Image processing – IMAX – iMovie – In-camera effect – Independent film – Industrial Light and Magic – Insert – Intellectual montage – Intelligent lighting – Interlace – Intermittent mechanism – Internet Movie Database – Interruptible foldback – Intertitle – Iris-in/ Iris-out – Iso-elastic – Italian neorealism –

J

Jaggies – Jib – Jump cut – Juxtaposition (editing) –

K

Key costumer – Key grip – Key light – Keying (graphics) – Keykode – Kinemacolor – Kinetoscope – Kino-Pravda – Kinopanorama – Klieg light – Kodak Theatre – Kuleshov Effect –

L

L cut (split edit) – LCD shutter glasses – Lead space – Lekolite – Lens – Lens flare – Lens hood – Letterboxing – Light meter – Light reflector – Lighting technician – Lighting – Lighting control console – Lighting design – LightWave – Lightworks – Limato, Ed – Line producer – Linear filter – Linear timecode – Linear video editing – Lip flap – Lipstick camera – Live soundtrack – Location – Location manager – Location scouting – Location shooting – Log line – Long shot – Long take – Low-angle shot – Low-key lighting – Lucasfilm – Lucasfilm Animation – Lumapanel – Luminaire

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Machinima – Magic lantern – Make-up artist – Make-up call – Marxist film theory – Master shot – Match cut – Match moving – Matte – Maya – Medieval film – Medium shot – Medium-long shot – Method acting – Method filmmaking – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer – Microphone – Microphone boom – Mid shot – MIDI timecode – Mini35 – Mise en scene – Mixing console – Mockumentary – Montage – Mood lighting – Motion blur – Motion capture – Motion picture – Motion Picture Association – Motion Picture Association – Canada – Motion picture camera – Motion picture continuity – Motion picture distribution – Motion picture editing – Motion picture lighting – Motion picture rating system – Motion picture terminology – Movie projector – Movie star – Movie studio – Movie theater – Movies Filmed in Harlem – Movietone sound system – Moving light – Moviola – MPAA film rating system – Multicamera setup – Multiplane camera – Music editor – Music supervisor – Musical film

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Narrative film – Narrativity – National Association of Theatre Owners – National Film Board of Canada – National Film Preservation Board – National Film Registry – National Media Museum – Negative cutting – Negative pickup deal – Neo-noir – Neorealism – New Queer Cinema – Newsreel – Nickelodeon movie theater – Night for day – Night for night – Nitrocellulose – Noise reduction – Non-diegetic insert – Non-linear editing – Normal lens –

O

Oblique camera angle – Offline editing – Oktoskop – On Location – One-light – Online editing – OpenEXR – Open content film – Opening credits – Optical composition – Optical effects – Optical printer – Optical zoom – Original camera negative – Orphan film – Outtake

P

The Paley Center for Media – Pan and scan – Pan shot – Panavision – Panchromatic – PAR light – Paramount Pictures – Performance capture – Persistence of vision – Perspective distortion – Phi phenomenon – Photographic film – Photographic lens – Photometry – Pinnacle Liquid Edition – Pinnacle Studio – Pincushion distortion – Pinscreen animation – Pitch – Pixar – Pixilation – Plot development (motion picture) – Point of view shot – Political Cinema – Pool hall lighting – Pop filter – Pornographic movie – Post-production – PowerAnimator – Practical effects – Practical lighting – Praxinoscope – Premium Picture Productions – Pre-production – Principal photography – Producer – Producers Guild of America – Production assistant – Production Code – Production company – Production design (motion picture) – Production designer – Production sound mixer – Production values – Progressive scan – Proof of concept – Propaganda film – Prop – Property master – Psychoanalytic film theory – Publicist – PV mount –

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Rack focus – Raster image – Reaction shot – Read-through – Re-can – Recording mixer – Redress – Reflected light – Refractive index – Reframing – Remake – Rembrandt lighting – Rendering – Re-recording mixer – Retrofocus – Reversal film – Reverse-angle shot – RGB color model – Rig – Rostrum camera – Rotary disc shutter – Rotoscoping – Rough cut – Rule of thirds – Runaway production – Rushes – Rushes log

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Sa–Sm

Scene axis – Scene lighting – Scoop lights – Screen Actors Guild – Screen direction – Screen test – Screenplay – Screenplay slug line – Screenwriter – Screenwriting – Screenwriting software – Screenwriting credit – Screwball comedy film – Scrim (lighting) – Script – Script breakdown – Script doctor – Script Supervisor – Second unit – Secondary animation – Sellmeier equation – Sequence (filming) – Sequence shot – Serial – Set (film and TV scenery) – Set construction – Set costumer – Set decorator – Set dresser – Shake (software) – Shallow focus – Shaw Brothers Studio – Shooting ratio – Shooting script – Short end – Short film – Shot (filming) – Shot reverse shot – Shutter angle – Shutter speed – Silent film – Simultaneous release – Single camera setup – Skywalker Sound – Slit-scan – Slow cutting – Slow motion – SMPTE – SMPTE color bars – SMPTE time code

Sn–Sz

Snoot (lighting) – Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers – Soft light – Sony Pictures – Sony Vegas – Sound designer – Sound dissolve – Sound editor – Sound effects – Sound effects editor – Sound engineer – Sound mix – Sound recording – Sound stage – Soundtrack – Soviet movies of the year by ticket sales – Star Wars – Special effects – Specular light – Split screen – Spotlight (lighting) – Spydercam – Stage combat – Stage lighting – Stage lighting instrument – Stand-in – Standoff – Step outline – Stereoscopy – Stock footage – Stop motion – Stop trick – Striplight – Strobing effect – Structuralist film theory – Stunt work – Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures – Subjective camera angle – Subtitle – Sundance Institute – Sungun lamp – Superimpose – Surround sound – Suspension of disbelief – Swing gang – Sync-coding – Synchronizer – Sync sound –

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Talkies – Talking head – Tally light – Technical achievement – Technicolor – Technirama – Techniscope – Telecine – Teleconverter – Telerecording – Television movie – Tessar formula – Test screening – Three-point lighting – Tight shot – Tilt – Time-lapse – Title sequence – Top grossing movie – Top-grossing movies in the United States – Toronto International Film Festival – Tracking shot – Trailer – Transgender in film and television – Transition focus – Transitional effect – Treatment – Trilogy – Trucking shot – Tungsten fresnel light – Tungsten open face light – Two-shot –

U

Undercranking – Universal Studios – Utilitarian lighting – Utility sound technician –

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Varicam – Variety – Venice Film Festival – Vertical interval timecode – Video – Video assist – Video tap – Viewfinder – Vignetting – Vinegar syndrome – Virtual camera – VistaVision – Visual effects – Vitascope – Voice actor – Voice director

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Walla – Walt Disney Company – Wardrobe attendant – Wardrobe design – Wardrobe designer – Warner Brothers – WGA screenwriting credit system – Wide-angle lens – Widelux – Widescreen – Wipe – Wire frame model – Wire removal – Wireless microphone – Women's Cinema – Workprint – Writers Guild of America –

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Xenon arc lamp – Xenon flash lamp – X-rated –

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Zeiss Tessar lens – Zen filmmaking – Zoetrope – Zoom lens – Zoopraxiscope –

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