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blue screen
[ bloo skreen ]
noun
, Movies, Television.
- an electronic special-effects system that isolates and removes a static plain blue background from the live foreground shot so that the background can be filled or replaced with another image or video in a composite with the foreground.
blue screen
noun
- a special effects film technique involving filming actors against a blue screen on which effects such as computerized graphics can be added later and integrated into a single sequence
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Word History and Origins
Origin of blue screen1
First recorded in 1965–70
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Example Sentences
He had marked out, from the first, the distance from the wall to the blue screen as a very decent distance.
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By taking a third negative, through a blue screen, we could add immensely to the range of colours obtainable.
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At last my fair guide stopped abruptly before a deep blue screen, and seemed to point to something below.
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Mrs. Jones opened the bright-blue screen door and motioned her caller into her house.
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For a seat for herself she has a small hassock that you gave me, and behind the blue screen is a world apart.
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