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Show ' Movie Lingo Shades Teen-Age Slang ,- 777; ftx qT..s ; : ; 1 V YOU WERE TO VISIT THEr V fc SHOOTIMS OF- A MOVIE YOU D - , ,W - . ' ' MEAR WORDS USED IN A TTJ,i. iT T ff , WAY QUITE UUFAMILIAR J $ iC4f d h-Hi- '- , TO YOU -THESE WORDS I N JW Tw, ' J WOULD HAVE: A AETCiJtJK I Iw jSIBf r V . S MEAW 1 MQ To those J1 'M rf .f-"T" 'K ISX MAK.MS THE PICTURE . ' - ill IB BY WALTER KING HE hero grapples with the villain vil-lain at a cabin in the path of a forest fire. There ensues a mighty battle between two closely matched men of the wide open spaces. Furniture is knocked apart as it is thrown and swung on the heads of the fighters. The two men battle on. The heroine grabs a jug and breaks it over the head of the nasty old bad man. Still the fight goes on. "Gee," you whisper to your chum, as you munch popcorn, pop-corn, "those hombres are tough." No, boys and girls, they weren't hurt a bit. The furniture and jug were "break-aways," props ol plaster and balsa wood, made especially for the scene. They were meant to be broken with the least possiMe damage to the heads of very priced movie stars. "Bre; jys" ii one of many zany tei,.,s you'd use ft you worked in Hollywood. There are also eggs, dollies, toe-nails, milk, soup, cracker boxes, ducks and f lilies, none of which resemble eggs, dolls, toe-nails, etc. Movie milk is not put in the refrigerator. Instead, the camera is put into the milk, which is a soundproof box to silence the camera noise. 'J'HE stage directions for a scene might be: "Get the fly squad to move the dolly. Pull the toe-nails from that flat and strike on 15." A dolly is a wheeled platform to move the camera. The fly squad moves things around the studio. Toe-nails are double-headed nails which can be driven into wood only as far as the first head. A flat is a piece of scenery. "Strike on 15," isn't labor trouble, it means to tear down the set on sound stage No. 15. You see, in movie lingo, soup and nuts get all mixed up with firearms and musical instruments. The "rifle" is the spotlight causing caus-ing the trouble. A "cello" is a sheet of frosted plastic used to tone down strong lights. Certain types of globes are called "eggs," others are "bottles." Various types of lights are known as "babies" ' cracker boxes" box-es" and "bon-bons." The "bonbons" "bon-bons" of 2000 wattg would light'a dozen ordinary homes. Pf thousands of feet of film used in making a scene, much of it is never printed. A lot more is thrown out when it comes, back from the "soup," which is the process of developing a film particularly par-ticularly the Quids used to develop a film. If a director is pleased with a "shot," which is a scene as it is acted, he asks to have it printed. The next day he decides from a "rush," which is prints of yester-day's yester-day's shots, whether it is satisfactory. satis-factory. If it is, it's a "lily." Finally there's the order to "wrap it up," which means the work is done. It's the same thing as "30" in newspaper lingo. TheD the "ducks," which are the microphones, micro-phones, are put to bed (put away), eggs and babies are flicked out. Tired actors grab a sandwich, which means they eat, whether it really is a sandwich or a banquet, and go somewhere else to talk shop in the same strange lingo that they alone can understand |