dissolving view

noun

an effect created by the projection of slides on a screen in such a way that each picture seems to dissolve into the succeeding one without an interval in between.

First recorded in 1840–50

It was like a dissolving view—great, while it lasted, but soon ended.

Passersby no longer remained mere figures in a dissolving view, through whom one looked as if they were non-existent.

The whole scene is moving, but so slowly that it seems to change like a dissolving view.

In after years, this period was almost a blank in the retrospect, a confusing dissolving view that defied her scrutiny.

The valley, rich with golden harvests, presented a charming dissolving view, melting away in the dim distance.

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