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  2. Dry line - Wikipedia

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    A dry line (also called a dew point line, or Marfa front, after Marfa, Texas) [1] is a line across a continent that separates moist air and dry air. One of the most prominent examples of such a separation occurs in central North America, especially Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, where the moist air from the Gulf of Mexico meets dry air from the ...

  3. List of film misquotes - Wikipedia

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    Actual line(s) Character Actor/actress Film Year Well, here's another fine mess you've gotten us into. [2] Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into. Various Oliver Hardy: Various, starting with The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case: 1930–1959 Me Tarzan, you Jane. [1] Jane Parker [pointing to herself]: Jane. Tarzan: Jane.

  4. Film analysis - Wikipedia

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    Film analysis is the process by which a film is analyzed in terms of mise-en-scène, cinematography, sound, and editing. One way of analyzing films is by shot-by-shot analysis, though that is typically used only for small clips or scenes. Film analysis is closely connected to film theory. Authors suggest various approaches to film analysis.

  5. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia

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    Example: Agamemnon (play) Falling prey to cruelty/misfortune. an unfortunate; a master or a misfortune; The unfortunate suffers from misfortune and/or at the hands of the master. Example: Job (biblical figure) Revolt. a tyrant; a conspirator; The tyrant, a cruel power, is plotted against by the conspirator. Example: Julius Caesar (play) Daring ...

  6. Glossary of motion picture terms - Wikipedia

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    The "line" in "below-the-line" refers to the separation of production costs between script and story writers, producers, directors, actors and casting (collectively referred to as "above-the-line") and the rest of the film crew or production team. [16] best boy. A woman who performs the duties of a best boy may be called a best girl.

  7. Deadpan - Wikipedia

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    The 1928 Vitaphone short film The Beau Brummels, with vaudeville comics Al Shaw and Sam Lee, was performed entirely in deadpan. [9] The 1980 film Airplane! was performed almost entirely in deadpan; [10] it helped relaunch the career of one of its supporting actors, Leslie Nielsen, who transformed into a prolific deadpan comic after the film. [11]

  8. Cutaway (filmmaking) - Wikipedia

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    For example, a scene may be improved by cutting a few frames out of an actor's pause; a brief view of a listener can help conceal the break. Or the actor may fumble some of his lines in a group shot; rather than discarding a good version of the shot, the director may just have the actor repeat the lines for a new shot, and cut to that alternate ...

  9. Rule of thirds - Wikipedia

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    Analogous to this "Rule of thirds", (if I may be allowed so to call it) I have presumed to think that, in connecting or in breaking the various lines of a picture, it would likewise be a good rule to do it, in general, by a similar scheme of proportion; for example, in a design of landscape, to determine the sky at about two-thirds ; or else at ...