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On modern-day movie sets, do directors really shout, "Lights, camera, action!" before filming a scene?

In fact, was it ever really shouted at all at any time during filmmaking history, or is that just a myth?

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Posted - March 6, 2018

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  • 46117
    They shout "Action" and if you do not show action, you are replaced.

    Period.

    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at March 7, 2018 9:16 AM MST
      March 6, 2018 8:57 PM MST
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  • 23650
    I hope that sign actually existed and is not just a photocropped/shopped? Whatever the word is.

    :)


      March 7, 2018 9:18 AM MST
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  • 46117
    And we will never know.
      March 7, 2018 9:25 AM MST
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  • 17620
    They did and do.
      March 7, 2018 12:18 AM MST
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