MATTE SHOT Definition & Meaning

matte shot

Movies.

a shot in which parts of the background and sometimes the foreground are masked so that a different background, foreground, image, etc., can be substituted during printing.

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The small saddle was not visible; the pipe and black cloth, which were seen, were later painted out in a traveling matte shot.”

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