Every Field develops its own specialized in-group jargon, and the film industry is no exception.
A number of lexicons of this terminology have been compiled—Harry M. Geduld’s An Illustrated Glossary of Film Terms, Tony and Patricia Miller’s “Cut! Print!,” and the University Film Association Journal’s “Terms Used in Production of 16mm Non-Theatrical Motion Pictures,” for example. Indeed, there’s even a handy pocket volume (Film Vocabulary, published by the Netherlands Government Information Service, Film Division, 43 Noordeinde, The Hague, Netherlands) which gives the equivalents for 1,024 film terms in French, English, Dutch, Italian, German, Spanish, and Danish.
The glossary I offer here is indebted to these others, ...
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