kinestasis

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noun

A rapidly-moving montage technique set to music.

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Meanings

nounkinestasis (countable and uncountable, plural kinestases)

plural kinestases

  1. countableuncountablebroadcastingA rapidly-moving montage technique set to music.

    I used the same kinestasis technique that Chuck Braverman had used in his American History in Two Minutes.

    2001, Jesús Salvador Treviño, Eyewitness: a filmmaker's memoir of the Chicano Movement, Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press, →ISBN, page 206
  2. countableuncountablebroadcastingA film made with such a technique.

    Charles Braverman had seen Art and felt that a kinestasis short might be a welcome addition to the Smothers Brothers' Comedy Hour.

    1970, David A. Sohn, Film: the creative eye, Dayton, Ohio: G. A. Pflaum, page 101
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APA

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Chicago

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