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background projection

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noun

  1. the projection from the rear of previously photographed material on a translucent screen, used as background for a television or motion-picture shot.

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None other than the Phantom of the Opera, who emerges from beneath the background projection screen, which has heretofore displayed visualizations of the type you might see on an old version of Windows Media Player.

From Slate • Nov. 30, 2012

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