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Cinematographer   Listen
noun
Cinematographer  n.  
1.
One who takes motion pictures with a movie camera, especially one expert in the art.
2.
One who exhibits motion pictures; an operator of a motion picture projector; a projectionist.





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"Cinematographer" Quotes from Famous Books



... another stimulus (another image) so that there may be fusion or continuity, the one succeeding the other before the earlier has had time, not to disappear, but to decline. If it has had time to decline in intensity, the appearance of flickering results. That is what the cinematographer has to avoid. It is found that a quicker succession—a shorter interval—is necessary with strong light than with weaker light in order to produce continuity. With a faint light the interval may be as great as one-tenth of a second; with a strong light it must ...
— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester


Words linked to "Cinematographer" :   camera operator, lensman


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