montage

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But, at least for Italian audiences, the montage is a heartrending who's who of leading murdered Italians - former prime minister Aldo Moro, banker Roberto Calvi and the Sicilian judge Giovanni Falcone, who specialised in prosecuting members of La Cosa Nostra.

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  1. noun A single pictorial composition made by juxtaposing or superimposing many pictures or designs.
  2. noun The art or process of making such a composition.
  3. noun A relatively rapid succession of different shots in a movie.

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  • In a fast montage, a man, his face familiar yet changed, stood on crutches in a cottage doorway, plunged into an excited crowd of kids, spoke defiantly on the stairs of a plane. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 05 - May 2002
  • But Saakashvili insisted the film was no montage, and had revealed plans for serious acts of violence. —  Institute for War & Peace Reporting:
  • In film, a montage is that collection of scenes that elapse time and advance plot, with often emotional results. —  HipHopDX.com >
  • During a particularly long shoot for a voiceover montage, their gamesmanship took, as Swinton puts it, "diabolically obscene turns," such as when she arranged a prop carrot and two potatoes into a "vast vegetable genitalia," and Pitt dared her to leave it in the shot. —  Pitt Watch
  • A photo montage is a collection of different photographs sorted and displayed in one incredible picture. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
 

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  1. French, from monter, to mount, from Old French; see mount1.
 

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