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freeze-frame, n. (Formerly at freeze n.1 3.)|ˈfriːzfreɪm|
[f. freeze v. + frame n.]
a. Cinematogr. and Television. A shot in which the movement is arrested by printing or transmitting the same frame many times.
1960O. Skilbeck ABC of Film & TV 59 Freeze frame, T.V. term meaning a briefly Frozen Shot after the Jingle to allow ample time for change over at the end of a T.V. ‘Commercial’. 1965L. Halliwell Filmgoer's Compan. 157 Freeze frame, a printing device whereby the action appears to ‘freeze’ into a still, this being accomplished by printing one frame many times. 1974G. Chapman et al. Monty Python's Flying Circus (1989) II. xlii. 278 At this point the freeze frame starts moving as the chaplain (Terry J) lifts himself out of the cockpit and jumps down beside his Spitfire. 1991S. Constantine Hermetech 296 For a second there was freeze-frame and the whole world stopped... Roirbak switched off the film and knelt beside Ari again.
b. The function or facility of stopping a film or videotape in order to view a single motionless frame; also, a frame viewed in this way. Freq. attrib.
1961G. Millerson Technique Television Production 406 Suspended animation (freeze-frame). Stopping action during its course, to show development. 1978[see interactively s.v. interactive a.]. 1983Listener 28 Apr. 38/1 The freeze-frame button enabled close inspection of individual pictures. 1991B. Ellis Amer. Psycho 25 It has a four-corner video stand with a high-tech tube combination from NEC with a picture-in-picture digital effects system (plus freeze-frame).
c. transf. and fig.
1969New Yorker 20 Dec. 36/3 The freeze frame of the dream continues. 1970A. Fowles Dupe Negative xiv. 190, I crashed berserkly through the door and a freeze frame was stamped obscenely on my mind. 1986Crafts May/June 46/1 His figures..are freeze-frames of human expression. 1989Guardian 20 July 18/1 Faldo..went through a complex set of freeze-frame swing exercises.
Hence ˈfreeze-frame v. trans., to apply ‘freeze-frame’ to (an image, recording, etc.); also fig.
1983Listener 12 May 4/1 You can freeze-frame sequences for close analysis. 1984R. Frame Winter Journey (1986) ii. 98 It was a piercing, terrified scream from my mother that stopped me, freeze-framed me. 1991N.Y. Woman June–July 48/2 Rent a movie and freeze-frame it during the cute guys. |