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montage

Romantic comedies always seem to include a montage of scenes showing the main characters falling in love while sharing a hot dog, playfully throwing snowballs at each other, and taking a romantic ride on a boat. A montage is a film sequence made up of many short scenes edited together.

A montage is a kind of collage, often assembled from many different movie scenes, resulting in a single overall theme or image. You can also make a montage of photographs or music, editing or pasting together various bits to form one continuous whole. In the movie business, the word montage was originally used to mean "edit," the process of cutting and pasting pieces of film together to form a finished product.

DEFINITIONS OF: montage

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n a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image

Synonyms:
collage
Types:
photomontage
a montage that uses photographic images
Type of:
paste-up
a composition of flat objects pasted on a board or other backing
icon, ikon, image, picture
a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
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