circle of confusion

noun Photography.

a circular spot on a film, resulting from the degree to which a pencil of light reflected from the field of view is focused in front of or behind the film, or from aberration of the lens, or from both.

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1905–10

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in the editing or projection of film, any situation in which the sound does not correspond to the lip movements of an actor

performers change their positions slightly between exposures to obtain a comic, jerky movement when the film is projected at normal speed

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