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freeze-frame
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freeze-frame or freeze frame (frzfrm)
n.
1. A still picture in the course of a movie or television film, made by running a series of identical frames or by stopping a reel or videotape at one desired frame.
2. A vivid, motionless scene or image.

freeze-frame v.

freeze-frame
n
1. (Performing Arts) Films television a single frame of a film repeated to give an effect like a still photograph
2. (Performing Arts) a single frame of a video recording viewed as a still by stopping the tape
vb (tr)
(Performing Arts) (Miscellaneous Technologies / Photography) to make a freeze-frame of (an image)
Translations
freeze-frame [ˈfriːzˌfreɪm] nfotogramma m; (on video) → fermo immagine
freeze-frame [ˈfriːzˌfreɪm] nfotogramma m; (on video) → fermo immagine


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The annoying juxtaposition of jump cuts and freeze-frames for ostensibly ``edgy'' effect is simply cliched these days, as tired as the subplots about Cole's character's cat-and-mouse divorce - the couple's bickering sounds more like flirtatiousness - and his initial reluctance to accept a new team member.
In another work, Saddam Hussein's ruined palace is disinfected by a maniacal housewife wielding a gunlike spray bottle, while the perspectival regression of grand, broken windows mirrors the time-lapse multiplication of the woman's body, agitated into overlapping freeze-frames by her zeal.
Freeze-frames, split screens, and slow-motion video techniques enhance the presentation.
 
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