There was a bit of a mental lap dissolve and what's this?

There's a bit of a lap dissolve and the full moon becomes a paper cup viewed from above.

I grabbed him by the coat-tails, but it was a lap dissolve that saved the day.

Then he lap dissolved into a happy ending with some drip like Anne Shirley.'

Talbot's lap dissolve transformation on screen only took seconds, while Chaney's took almost ten hours.

Lap dissolve back to the thunderous, hot, song-and-dance number on the smoke-filled, brightly lit stage.

Lap dissolve to another angle: ".

It's one of those tricks played by the mind of the beholder when, like the images in a lap dissolve, memories become superimposed.

She had blanked the experience from her mind; now it came back: the incredible, stop-action, living lap dissolve that had left her on Earth.

Another visual effect uncommon in video cameras that certain high-end Super 8 cameras can do in-camera is the lap dissolve.

It involved footage of fake body parts, live and dummy snakes, miniatures, and other camera tricks combined into a flowing sequence with lap dissolve.

Video: The black-and-white TV still lap dissolves to another still, this one showing an older doctor surrounded by bright-eyed, somewhat ragged children.

In "Lap Dissolves," for instance, one scene blends into another but through puns and metaphors, never through the superimposition of visual images.

The special effects (super-impositions and lap dissolves) and makeup effects were impressive for their time, allowing the viewer to see the visions as Annie saw them.

A special "pyro model" was created from a rubber cast of the Bird of Prey and exploded instead, with a lap dissolve making the transition from the motion control ship to the pyro vessel.

Upon activation of the lap dissolve feature, the shot being filmed fades to black, the camera back-winds the film to the beginning of the fade and, at the beginning of the next shot, fades in.

When this cartoon aired on Toon Disney, the scene where Donald tries to hang the cub but gets stuck on the noose in the process was cut with a fake lap dissolve from Donald saying "Aw, Phooey!"

The abrupt cut can be softened by a lap dissolve, originally done by gradually closing down the iris on the lens (a fade-out), winding back the film and then opening up the iris for the same length of time and film (a fade-in).

Vorkapich used kinetic editing, lap dissolves, tracking shots, creative graphics and optical effects for his stunning montage sequences for such features as Meet John Doe, Maytime, Crime Without Passion, Manhattan Melodrama, and Firefly.

LAP DISSOLVE TO: 288X1 TWO SHOT - LOGAN AND JESSICA - NIGHT Sitting on the ground.