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Italian: fermo immagine

English translation: still/freeze-frame







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Italian term or phrase:fermo immagine
English translation:still/freeze-frame
Entered by:lara trombetta
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Tech/Engineering - Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts)
Italian term or phrase: fermo immagine
si parla di una campagna pubblicitaria dove "i fermo immagine rubano istanti di goia di vivere....."
lara trombetta
Italy
still
Explanation:
Definizioni di "still":

# A photograph taken with a still (versus motion) camera.
www.psu.edu/dept/inart10_110/inart10/film.html

# refers to a single, static image, either (1) a frame still (possibly enlarged) from a finished film, (2) a production still taken from an unfinished film, or (3) a publicity shot (of an actor or scene); aka photogram. Example: a publicity still of the major cast members of The Wizard of Oz (1939) and a still taken from To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
www.filmsite.org/filmterms18.html
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Mirella Soffio
Italy
Note from asker to answerer
A furor di popolo...Special thanks to Ivana!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +4still
Mirella Soffio
4 +1freeze-frame
Ivana Micheli
3 -1catch picture
Anna Maria Augustin
1still picturesZiadm


  

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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
catch picture

Explanation:
http://europa.eu.int/eurodicautom/Controller#1

Anna Maria Augustin
France
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree Ivana Micheli: Sorry Anna Maria but "catch picture" means nothing in English and does not appear in Euodicautom (I checked)
9 mins
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
still

Explanation:
Definizioni di "still":

# A photograph taken with a still (versus motion) camera.
www.psu.edu/dept/inart10_110/inart10/film.html

# refers to a single, static image, either (1) a frame still (possibly enlarged) from a finished film, (2) a production still taken from an unfinished film, or (3) a publicity shot (of an actor or scene); aka photogram. Example: a publicity still of the major cast members of The Wizard of Oz (1939) and a still taken from To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
www.filmsite.org/filmterms18.html

Mirella Soffio
Italy
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 4
Note from asker to answerer
A furor di popolo...Special thanks to Ivana!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Stefano Papaleo
27 mins
  -> grazie, Nick Carter...;-)

agree Roberta Anderson: right - in this context you'd use "stills" (still images)
49 mins
  -> grazie, Roberta.

agree JudyK: yes, stills
3 hrs
  -> thanks, Judy.

agree DVGreen
3 hrs
  -> thanks, DV.
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5
still pictures

Explanation:
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Ziadm
Jordan
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
freeze-frame

Explanation:
Freeze Frame. Immaginate un tizio (il comico britannico Lee Evans) tutto rasato (comprese le ... comico, in realtà Freeze Frame (letteralmente "fermo immagine") è un noir vero ...

...si presenta il freeze frame nei punti di montaggio. Il freeze frame è un fermo immagine di circa un ...

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Note added at 1 hr 36 mins (2005-09-01 10:29:13 GMT)
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"freeze frameS", since the Italian is in the plural form


    Reference: http://www.filmup.leonardo.it/freezeframe.htm
    Reference: http://www.all-usenet-archive.com/File.asp?service=15034
Ivana Micheli
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ItalianItalian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Peter Cox
1 hr
  -> thanks Peter
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