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  • Doctor Zhivago
    film
    / Editing

    …other devices, such as a wipe (i.e., a line moving across the screen that wipes out the preceding image while introducing the next), irising (gradually reducing the old image from the edges to a pinpoint size and then expanding the new one in the reverse way), or a turnover (in…

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    …other devices, such as a wipe (i.e., a line moving across the screen that wipes out the preceding image while introducing the next), irising (gradually reducing the old image from the edges to a pinpoint size and then expanding the new one in the reverse way), or a turnover (in…

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  • colour television picture tube
    television
    / Special techniques

    …of this technique is the wipe, which removes the image from one camera while inserting the image from another, with a sharp, moving boundary between them.

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    …of this technique is the wipe, which removes the image from one camera while inserting the image from another, with a sharp, moving boundary between them.

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