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Glossary Film Noir / Term

wide-angle lens

A lens of short focal length that affects the scene's perspective by distorting straight lines near the edges of the frame and by exaggerating the distance between foreground and background planes. In 35mm filming, a wide-angle lens is 30mm or less. Also called a short lens.

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