drop frame, n. (drop frām) 1. video production: the type of time-based signifier in editing that compensates for the NTCS (North American) color coding system, which runs at 29.97 frames per second rather than the identified 30, by removing or "dropping" two frames every minute save the tenth. The PAL (European) "colour" system runs at exactly 30 frames per second and thus requires neither drop frame nor non-drop frame distinctions; it's just editing over there.
From the Old English verb dropa, meaning "to traverse the abyss betwixt one's self and ye blessed Earthe," and the Old Norse verb frama or fremja, meaning "Stop your looting, Vikings, and get back on the freakin' boat!"
James Cagney: Signature Collection
21 April 2007
Today in Slant Magazine: Light on his feet, quick to the trigger, and, in The West Point Story, even fast to sing: "B apostrophe, K no 'postrophe, L, Y, N." Cagney was one of a kind.
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Major League (David S. Ward, 1989)
04 April 2007
Today in Slant Magazine: Remember The Ueck: "Just a bit outside!"
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Major League (1989) ~ written and directed by David S. Ward; produced by Chris Chesser and Irby Smith; cinematography by Reynaldo Villalobos; edited by Dennis M. Hill; original music by James Newton Howard; with Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen, Margaret Whitton, Rene Russo, Wesley Snipes and James Gammon ~ Wild Thing Edition DVD, in stores April 10.
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