Black screen

The black image referred to in the art of film , a black frame in which the filmstrip no light passes more and the screen remains dark. A sequence of several black images results in the black film . As a monochrome film sequence, it serves as a turning point or stylistic device. In the case of a fade to a black screen sequence or vice versa, one speaks of a fade in or out .

literature

• Authors and editing : Lexikon der Filmbegriffe , Bender, Mainz 2003- DNB 985191848 , ISSN  1610-420X ( full text online free of charge, University of Kiel ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ James zu Hüningen: Black Film . In: Lexikon der Filmbegriffe, edited by Hans. J. Wulff and Theo Bender