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Publicity Department

Entertainment; Movies

Also Known As: Advertising. The section of a production's crew responsible for promoting a movie. Individual positions within in this department include: unit publicist, publicity assistant, and ...

Publicity Director

Entertainment; Movies

Also Known As: Publicity Executive. Person employed by a studio to conceive and oversee the publicity campaign that opens a movie. In many cases, this person never even appears on the set -- ...

Word-of-mouth

Entertainment; Movies

Moviegoers can't help warning their friends to avoid or not miss the movie they saw recently. After an opening weekend there's often enough feedback circulating from such warnings that it has a ...

Claymation

Entertainment; Movies

Animation of models constructed from clay or plasticine.

Clean Speech

Entertainment; Movies

A take in which all dialogue was performed without error.

Cliffhanger

Entertainment; Movies

A moment of high drama, frequently used at the end of serials. Named for the (now clichéd) practice of leaving a hero or heroine hanging onto the edge of a cliff.

Close Captioned

Entertainment; Movies

Also Known As: Close-Captioned, CC. A system which displays the current dialog on screen for deaf or hard-of-hearing viewers. Contrast with subtitles, intertitles.