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1. Academy Award in academy, n. View full entry 1930
...any of various annual awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Hollywood, United States) for achievement in a field connected with cinema. Cf. Oscar...
2. achronological, adj. View full entry 1962
...Not arranged in order of time; unchronological....
3. action, n. View full entry 1923
...A film director's command to begin a scene....
5. actuality, n. View full entry 1925
...The presentation of real events in a film, television or radio programme, etc.; documentary. Also (in pl.): scenes of real life depicted on screen. Now chiefly hist....
6. anamorphic, adj. View full entry 1954
...Cinematogr. (See quot. 1960.)...
7. angle shot, n. View full entry 1922
...Photogr. and Film. A shot in which the camera is pointing obliquely at the subject....
8. animated, adj. View full entry 1888
...Designating films of acted or real-life action (motion pictures) captured by a cinematographic camera. Now hist....
9. animated, adj. View full entry 1913
...Of or relating to the filming of successive drawings or positions of models to create the illusion of movement; made using the techniques of animation (see animation8), as ...
10. animatic, n. View full entry 1977
...A preliminary mock-up of a film, television commercial, etc., consisting of a succession of images from a storyboard edited together with a soundtrack....
11. animation, n. View full entry 1897
...The process or technique of capturing acted or real-life action with a cinematographic camera; (also) a film produced in this way, a motion picture (= film3c). Now disused...
12. animation, n. View full entry 1919
...The process or technique of filming successive drawings or positions of puppets or models to create an illusion of movement when the film is shown as a sequence; a film produced in...
13. animatograph, n. View full entry 1896
...A motion picture. Cf. cinematograph...
14. animatograph, n. View full entry 1898
...A camera used for shooting films; (also) a film projector....
17. animator, n. View full entry 1918
...Film. A maker of animated films; esp. an artist who produces drawings, images, or models for an animated film; (more widely) anyone concerned with the production of an animated...
18. answer print in answer, n. View full entry 1940
...(see quot. 1940)....
19. art-direct in art, n.1 View full entry 1964
...trans. to oversee or work on as an art director; cf. art director...
20. art-directed in art, n.1 View full entry 1983
...directed or overseen by, or as if by, an art director (in a specified way)....
