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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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verb
To shoot a scene while advancing the film in the camera more quickly than it will advance on playback. This results in slowing down the action in the final film.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: broadcasting, film, media, television
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: undercrank
History
From over- + crank; dating from a time when film was advanced in a camera by the turning of a crank.
