Definitions
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- verb film To
shoot ascene while advancing thefilm in thecamera more slowly than it will onscreen . This results inspeeding up the action in the final film.
Etymologies
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From under + crank; dating from a time when movie film was advanced in a camera by the turning of a crank.
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Many high end cameras have overcrank and undercrank with variable frame rates in increments/decrements of 1
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