Word: rewound
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...Auberjonois) lays down the law (no social criticism, no politics, no hint of kinky sex), the moneystruck young writer (Gregg Edelman) peevishly retypes his scenes -- and, in an inspired bit of playfulness, that action causes his characters to move and speak jerkily backward, as if a film were being rewound, until they are back in position to perform the new bowdlerized version...
...pump, which distributes chilled water throughout the building, probably burned out in the early afternoon, but it took several hours for enough smoke to build up to set off the automatic alarm, Scott said. The pump's motor will have to be rewound, but there was no "major" damage, he added...
...film-loaded cassettes. The cassette, containing 42 ft. of super 8-size film for nearly three minutes of shooting, is slipped into the camera, exposed, removed and dropped into the viewer like a slice of bread into a toaster. In 90 seconds, the film is processed as it is rewound inside the cassette before being projected on the screen in full color. The cassette then pops up for the viewer "to replace in the library," as Land puts...
...marketing recorded music. The best tapes had all the high fidelity of phonograph disks but none of their low resistance to wear and tear. The trouble was that they were cumbersome: wound on one reel, they had to be threaded through the playback machine onto another reel, then rewound. In the process, the hapless user could find himself struggling like Laocoon within coils of tape. Before taped music could begin to have the mass appeal of disks, something was needed to simplify the handling...
...revived Cherbourg's waterworks by sending damaged turbo-electric units to England to be rewound, moved 60 tons of coal from Courcelles to Creully to stoke a pasteurization plant and relieve a desperate milk shortage. G-5 teams carted diesel fuel into the Bayeux district to get flour mills going...