Roger Ebert has compiled a truly useful glossary of movie terms …
All-Seeing Camera: The remarkable ability of a stationary surveillance camera or news camera operated by a lone cameraman to film or video an incident from several different angles and distances all at once. When played back, the resulting film or videotape exactly duplicates the original point-of-view of the audience, right down to the sequence of the montage. See “Enemy of the State,” etc.
Thanks, Roger! Something we do need (in this context) is a common vocabulary. (Cf. design patterns in software.)
Postscript: Ward Cunningham’s wiki (linked above) is broked-ed. Presumably this is being fixed … otherwise a lot of people won’t be able to finish their homework.
