drop scene

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The drop scene was used in the city’s only theater in the early 1800s to entertain audiences between shows in the early days of stage performances in New England.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2019

The drop scene was used in the city’s only theater in the early 1800s to entertain audiences between shows.

From Washington Times • Nov. 13, 2019

It comes at the beginning of a first series of pictures, or as a kind of drop scene between one series of pictures and another.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

The arrangement is somewhat like that followed in many modern melodramas, where a scene not requiring properties is acted in front of a drop scene while scenery is being set behind.

From An Introduction to Shakespeare by MacCracken, H. N.

We had a drop scene representing the Lower Lake of Killarney.

From The Life Story of an Old Rebel by Denvir, John