matte shot

noun Movies.

a shot in which parts of the background and sometimes the foreground are masked so that a different background, foreground, image, etc., can be substituted during printing.

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Nearby words

mattagami, mattamore, mattaponi, mattathias, matte, matte shot, matted, mattedly, matteotti, matteotti, giacomo, matter

Also called matte.