matte shot

noun Movies.

a shot in which parts of the background and sometimes the foreground are masked so that a different background, foreground, image, etc., can be substituted during printing.

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Also called matte.

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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