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lap dissolve
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lap dissolve
n.
See dissolve.

lap dissolve
n
(Performing Arts) Films the technique of allowing the end of one scene to overlap the beginning of the next scene by fading out the former while fading in the latter


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Similar layerings occur in the films, in which lap dissolves repeatedly interpenetrate one image into another, and in the spoken-word recordings, where hesitancies and loopings multiply the single voice.
 
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