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back projection

British

noun

Also called: background projection. a method of projecting pictures onto a translucent screen so that they are viewed from the opposite side, used esp in films to create the illusion that the actors in the foreground are moving

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Enid Love, assistant head of schools programming, proudly introduced the multi-purpose set with its magnetic map of the world, back projection screen and the possibility of staging “simple” dramatic productions.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2022

The action opens with that staggering skiing-off-a-cliff stunt, just after Moore is seen supposedly skiing in front of an obvious back projection.

From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2018

And in several scenes, Almereyda uses old-fashioned back projection, which gives the film a theatrical sensibility.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2015

In wider vistas, the background looks like back projection, or a process shot.

From Time • Apr. 4, 2012

Zentropa plunders the film vocabulary -- back projection and superimposition, black-and-white with shrieks of color -- to anchor its weirdness in classical technique.

From Time Magazine Archive

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