Semicircular wall-high backdrops {cyclorama}| can represent sky or room.
Lenses {enlarger, movie} can transfer picture from negative to positive.
Cameras {kinetograph} can make film {kinetoscope} for viewing in windows. Kinetoscope parlors showed slapstick comedy and pornography.
Machines {Moviola} allow viewing film on a small screen.
Air-conditioned, soundproof building {sound stage} holds scene.
Curved lens {anamorphic lens} can fit wide-screen image onto film.
Lenses {telephoto lens} can magnify.
Film {acetate film} can be cellulose triacetate {film base} and contain picture and sound.
Prints {composite print} can have both picture and sound.
Rather than using light, negative emulsion can touch positive emulsion for printing {contact printing, movie}.
Alkali solution {developer, film} brings out negative or positive image.
Picture is on one filmstrip side, and sound is on other side {double system}.
Silver-salt gelatin {emulsion, movie} bonds to film base.
After development, solutions {fixer, film} can harden and set photographs.
Blank film pieces {leader, film} are at film-roll beginning.
Enlargers can use light to make negative into positive {optical printing}, rather than using contact.
Film final version does not have some filmed scenes {outtake}.
Film studios make daily prints {rushes}.
Acid solution {stop bath} stops development.
Wide-screen process {Cinemascope} uses anamorphic lens.
Wide-screen process {Cinerama} uses highly curved screen.
Wide-screen process {Panavision} uses anamorphic lens.
Wide-screen process {Technirama} uses anamorphic lens.
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