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单词 filmsetting
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filmsettingn.

Brit. /ˈfɪlmsɛtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfɪlmˌsɛdɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: film n., setting n.1
Etymology: < film n. + setting n.1 In sense 3 ultimately after typesetting n. and adj. at type n. Compounds 2. With this sense compare slightly later filmset v.
I. Compounds.
1. attributive. Designating a device used to adjust the position of a roll of film in a camera or projector. rare.
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1900 U.S. Patent 657,942 2/1 The hinged top lid A′ of the camera A is provided with an opening for the film-setting crank.
1934 U.S. Patent 1,956,938 3/1 We claim..in combination in a film projection apparatus, a self contained film setting, centering and return unit.
2. attributive. Printing. Designating a machine or apparatus used in the process of filmsetting (see sense 3). Frequently in filmsetting machine. Now chiefly historical.
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society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > [adjective] > photocomposing
filmsetting1954
1954 Printing Rev. No. 65. 40/3 The Monotype Corporation has made no secret of the fact that it was the problem of corrections—the bugbear of all film-setting systems—which has held back the machine.
1963 Printing & Mind of Man: Catal. (Brit. Mus.) 113 This [sc. the Rotophoto], the first British filmsetting machine to be placed on the market, was the invention of..George Westover, and was first shown in 1948.
1994 B. Horton tr. G. Unger in P. Karow Font Technol. p. v Triggering the revolution was the introduction of filmsetting machines, with letters existing solely as visible images on negative film.
II. Simple uses.
3. Printing. The process of composing material to be printed by projecting it onto a photographic film, which is in turn used to produce the template used for printing; = photocomposition n., photosetting n. Now chiefly historical.
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society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > [noun] > composing on a machine > photocomposing
photocomposing1926
photocomposition1929
phototypesetting1931
filmsetting1954
photosetting1958
1954 Printing Rev. No. 65. 41/2 The Keybar frames..can be used without alteration for film-setting on a ‘Monophoto’.
1963 D. Bland in O. Simon Introd. Typogr. (ed. 2) p. v The increasing use of slug-setting and film-setting for bookwork.
2003 M. Belson On the Press iii. 124 Filmsetting was not as successful as it could have been at the Press because the management always treated it as a toy rather than a tool.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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