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Movie Speak
won’t guarantee you a job, but having a knowledge of the industry terms willfool everyone into thinking you own the place.”
–Steven Spielberg
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How to Talk Like YouBelong on a Film Set
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Introduction: Lights! Camera! Diction!
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Glossary
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Baby(spot)—Duvetyne
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Ear—“Itiswhatitis”
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JackLord—Muscolight
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Navajoblanket—Sweeten
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Tabletop—Writer
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Xcopy—Thezone
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Essays
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Intermission
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MailingItIn
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AFew(Kind)WordsonSetiquette
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TheWritingStuf
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Recommended Reading
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Acknowledgments
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About the Author
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Introduction
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A
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a hundred years ago, in 1895, acouple of guys who spoke only French inventedthe movies. Two brothers named Louis and AugusteLumière forever changed the way pictures were lookedat. It happened in a small, dark basement in Paris, wheresome thirty-ve people had been attracted by a sign onthe street that read “Lumière Cinématographe.” No onein the room had any idea of what was about to takeplace. When the lights went down and the screen startedto icker, the people were astounded. They’d never seenanything like it. A dozen years later, in 1907, a lm crew steppedoff a train in downtown Los Angeles. These invadersconsisted of Francis Boggs, the director, and ThomasPersons, who was the cameraman, propman, businessmanager, assistant director, and whatever else wasrequired. They had already shot the interiors of theirlm in Chicago. Now, despite the minor technicality of an entire change of cast, they were to lm the restof it in California. A year later, they nished it—a full
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