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Opening Weekend

Entertainment; Movies

When a movie is first released in each country, its success is often measured in terms of its gross for the first weekend it opened. A disproportionate number of people usually see a movie on its ...

Optical Printer

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Also Known As: Optical Printing. A laboratory machine for combining the images of one or more reels of film through photographic techniques. Contrast with digital compositing.

Optical Soundtrack

Entertainment; Movies

A composite print in which the soundtrack is recorded via the varying width of a transparent track which runs beside the sequence of frames on a print. See also advance.

Orchestral Arrangements

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Also Known As: Arrangements, Orchestrations, Orchestration. An adaptation of the score for all instruments in an orchestra.

Organisation Catholique Internationale du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel

Entertainment; Movies

Also Known As: OCIC, International Catholic organisation for Cinema and Audiovisual, La Oficina Católica Internacional del Cine. WWW: http://www.catholic.org/orgs/ocic/ Since 1935 OCIC has been ...

Oscar

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Also Known As: Oscars, Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards. The term "Oscar" was coined by an anonymous person who remarked that the statue looked like their Uncle ...