midscene
advEtymology From mid- + scene.
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In the middle of a scene
- Characters appear out of nowhere and change identities midscene.1999 August 13, Jack Helbig, “Master of Unreality”, in Chicago Reader:
- The film begins abruptly, as if in midscene, with a documentarylike record of a workers' meeting; the credits are followed by an actual documentary segment on housing development in the early 60s, complete with didactic voice-over.2000 March 10, Fred Camper, “One Way or Another”, in Chicago Reader: