Undercranked Definition

adjective

(film) Of a scene shot while advancing the film in the camera more slowly than it will play on screen. This results in speeding up the action in the final film.

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verb

Simple past tense and past participle of undercrank.

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Origin of Undercranked

  • From under + crank; dating from a time when movie film was advanced in a camera by the turning of a crank.

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