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MoviePartners welcomes you to look through our movie terms glossary. Instructions: To see an entire listing of a specific letter, please click the letter of choice below. To search enter the text in the box. If you are unsure of the spelling, enter in as many letters as possible.

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Odd Couple Formula:
Seemingly incompatible characters are linked to each other in a plot which depends on their differences for its comedic and dramatic interest.

Odds on Edge Rule:
Odds that a car in real life will be able to to travel any appreciable distance balanced on two wheels: 1 in 7 million.

Open:
The time at which a movie is first released in theatres. Movies will often open at different times in different countries and regions.

Opening Weekend:
When a movie is first released in each country, its success is often measured in terms of its gross for the first weekend it opened.

Optical Printer:
A laboratory machine for combining the images of one or more reels of film through photographic techniques.

Optical Soundtrack:
A composite print in which the soundtrack is recorded via the varying width of a transparent track which runs beside the sequence of frames on a print.

Orchestral Arrangements:
An adaptation of the score for all instruments in an orchestra.

Orchestrator:
A person who writes orchestral arrangements.

Out-Take:
A take of a scene not used in a movie.

Overcranking:
The process of speeding the frame rate of a camera up, so that when the captured pictures are played at the normal frame rate the action appears to be in slow motion.

Ozoner:
Slang for a drive-in theatre.

NOTE: These definitions are compiled from multiple sources, and can not be thoroughly checked for accuracy. This glossary is only intended to assist all who use it and is not posted here for the profit of MoviePartners, Inc.

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