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I just saw a pre-release screening of the new film "Bounce" which is really quite good. As is my habit, especially when I am going to write a review, I stayed in my comfy seat to watch all of the credits roll. [The caterer on the film had four assistants and all of them were named!] In watching the who-did-what scroll down the screen, I noted that one person was credited with "compositing" something. Whazzat? May composite be used as a transitive verb? Isn't this just a misuse of "compose"? Or am I out of the Hollywood language loop?
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evidently they've co-opted a British political usage:
composite - vt To amalgamate (resolutions put before a party conference or Trades Union Congress) into one composite resolution. Hence compo"siting vbl. n. [OED]
perhaps substitute 'image' for 'resolution'?
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A printing press compositor? Perhaps he did the credit titles?
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Maybe he planted the daisies?
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the liliesThe craft unions are guildy as charged, Father?
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(meanwhile, waiting for JazzO and his "Hollywood mecca" to weigh in)
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a British political usageRight. The Grammar Police are working side by side with Guido Fawkes next time around ( after the Government have abolished the TUC, naturally). Wouldn't acceptance of this word mean we start talking about compositition at some point?? Puh-leeeze!!!!
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shona, I don't make these up (would that I could ;)
1962 Economist 8 Sept. 873/3 The Liberal executive keeps a watch over this agenda by compositing into multi-point motions the ideas. 1965 New Statesman 8 Oct. 506/3 Whereas Labour resolutions generally do have to be composited out of recognition, they at any rate are composited by the delegates themselves and, having been composited, they stand some chance of actually being debated. 1973 Daily Tel. 23 July 34/6 By the time the five-day conference opens on Oct. 1 it [sc. the agenda] will have been ‘composited’ into workable compass. 1979 H. Wilson Final Term ix. 183 NEC members worried about their seats, or concerned with the ‘compositing’ of resolutions on the Saturday afternoon. 1985 Times 30 Sept. 32/1 He has attended ‘compositing’ negotiations to resist any change in the wording.
[at least the last citation had the good grace to use quotation marks!]
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