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green screen

[ green skreen ]

noun

, Movies, Television.
  1. an electronic special-effects system, commonly used in television weather forecast segments, that isolates and removes a static plain green 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.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of green screen1

First recorded in 1980–85

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Example Sentences

Or they shoot it somewhere else and green screen it, and fake it, and all that.

We did a real halo jump in the desert at sunrise, and also mixed in some green screen.

So it's always good, if you're making a green screen heavy film, to talk to the actors before you cast them about that issue.

On acting in front of green screen: Well, different actors have a different tolerance for green screen work.

Weather Forecast Gets Hot and Heavy Oh, the joys of green-screen technology!

She used gradually to lose the sense of the phrases, but pictures began to form themselves in front of her on the green screen.

The green screen was burst asunder, and a man peered out at the meadow and the pool and the sloping side-hill.

His eyes could not pierce the green screen through which the stream rippled away, but to his ears came the voice of a man.

He crossed the stream below the pool and disappeared through the green screen.

The green screen slowly rose, covering the lower portion of the broad studio window where Heron, the gem-cutter, was at work.

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