In film and video, a cutaway shot is the interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else.

It is usually, although not always, followed by a cut back to the first shot, when the cutaway avoids a jump cut.

The most common use of cutaway shots in dramatic films are to adjust the pace of the main action, to conceal the deletion of some unwanted part of the main shot, or to allow the joining of parts of two versions of that shot.

An insert differs from a cutaway as cutaways cover action not covered in the master shot.

* In the film, Mona Lisa Smile ( 2003 ), as Katherine Watson is studying Joan Brandwyn's file, a cutaway shot of it reveals that she attended Miss Porter's School, but incorrectly locates it in Lower Merion, PA.

The series frequently breaks the fourth wall ( usually at least once per episode ) and uses cutaway scenes shot in a different style from the rest of the show.

Two scenes were removed — explicit sexually abusive dialogue between Bob and Vanessa during the car trip on the I-5, and a cutaway shot of Vanessa's dead grandmother towards the end of the film — before the film was classified R18 + for release on VHS.

It was the first appearance of all three Marx Brothers together ( minus the retired Zeppo ) in the same scene since A Night in Casablanca in 1946, although they had appeared in individual scenes in The Story of Mankind in 1957, and in pairs in Love Happy in 1949 ( Chico and Harpo appear together ; Groucho is in one brief shot with Harpo in the chase scene, and Chico is in a cutaway shot in the wrap-up in Groucho's office ).

Kamala also appeared, along with Blassie, in a segment of the WWF's Tuesday Night Titans, where he ( in kayfabe ) ate a live chicken on the air ; a cutaway shot was shown of feathers flying out of Kamala's mouth to create the illusion.

A cutaway shot was immediately shown — after Vince McMahon tried in vain to stop it — of feathers flying out of Kamala's mouth ( to illustrate Kamala's kayfabe chicken dinner ).

does not use cutaway gags, but rather focuses more on situational humor and non sequiturs.

When the Solicitor General ( or any of the deputies ) appears before the U. S. Supreme Court, he wears morning dress, with striped trousers, grey ascot, waistcoat, and a cutaway morning coat.

When the master tape is played, it turns out that Ryder, despite being hailed by Wilson as " the greatest poet since Yeats ", was unable to write any lyrics ( or, as implied in a cutaway segment called " The Life and Surprisingly Strange Adventures of Ryderson Crusoe, refused to write them ; " Why the fuck should I?!

However, since full evening dress is the most conservative form of men's dress, and has otherwise changed very little since the 1870s when the bottom of the waistcoat was visible below the cutaway of the tailcoat, some traditionalists ( especially in Europe and among the aristocracy ) tend to wear the waistcoat with its hem extending below the cutaway of the tailcoat by 1 – 2 cm.

It is also notable for its inner sleeve art, which is visible through a cutaway hole in the album's outer sleeve.

The original Precision Bass of 1951 was essentially a bass counterpart to the six-string Telecaster and shared several of its design features — the main difference being its then-radical double cutaway body.

The various cutaway segments in the show ( such as Phoenix From The Flames ) would usually be introduced by having their titles sung over the show's main theme tune ( though a few clip series had their own specific music ).

Similarly, a cutaway scene is the interruption of a scene with the insertion of another scene, generally unrelated or only peripherally related to the original scene.

In news broadcasting and documentary work, the cutaway is used much as it would be in fiction.

The upper strap button is usually located near or at the top ( neck end ) of the body: on the upper body curve, at the tip of the upper " horn " ( on a double cutaway ), or at the neck joint ( heel ).

The blue blob in the cutaway section is the seismically imaged Farallon Plate, which is subducting beneath North America.

On at least 4 episodes of the animated Fox series Family Guy, when the storyline hits a dead-end, a cutaway to Conway Twitty performing a song is inserted.

The Artist ARZ is a single cutaway, 24 fret, 25 " scale guitar that features a wide variety of bridges and pickups depending on the specific model.

The Artist ART is a single cutaway, 22 fret, 24. 75 " scale guitar that features a hard tail bridge.

The Ibanez ARX is a set-in neck, double cutaway guitar with 22 frets on a 24. 75 " scale.

A distinctive feature is the two prong, cutaway bow section.

In the cutaway view, the dark grey is the wall of the shell, the medium grey is sulphur resin, the light grey are the musket balls, and the black is the bursting charge.

A cutaway drawing is a technical illustration, in which surface elements a three-dimensional model are selectively removed, to make internal features visible, but without sacrificing the outer context entirely.

The purpose of a cutaway drawing is to " allow the viewer to have a look into an otherwise solid opaque object.

A cutaway van chassis is a variation of the full size van which was developed for use by many second stage manufacturers.

Such a unit generally has a van front end, and driver controls in a cab body which extends only to a point aft of the driver and passenger seats, where the rest of the van body is cutoff ( leading to the terminology " cutaway ").

Trey's signature model is a Dreadnought body with a curved Venetian cutaway.

This technique of using the cutaway is common to hide zooms in documentary films: the visuals may cut away to B roll footage of what the person is talking about while the A camera zooms in, then cut back after the zoom is complete.

In the March 13 episode of Saturday Night Live Season 1, he is one of the audience cutaway shots ( usually featured in the early seasons with comedic and fictitious non-sequitur captions as to whom the audience member was, or what they did ).

Additional letters or numbers added to this basic system are used to designate special features ( such as a built-in pickup or a cutaway ).

The cutaway to B roll footage can also be used to hide verbal or physical tics that the editor and / or director finds distracting: with the audio separate from the video, the filmmakers are free to excise " uh " s, sniffs, coughs, and so forth.

Charlotte's surname is mentioned only in the credits, and Garry Marshall says it is a reference to how she is often used in cutaway shots.

Although they are used heavily in children's books, they are also common in scientific literature, where they illustrate physical systems, especially ones that cannot be photographed ( such as cutaway diagrams, astronomical diagrams, and images of microscopic or sub-microscopic systems ).

The modern word for a dress coat in Italian, French and Spanish is frac ; in German Frack ; and the Portuguese fraque is even spelt the same as it was spelt in French, used in the late eighteenth century to describe a garment very similar to the frock, being a single or double-breasted garment with a diagonally cutaway front in the manner of a modern morning coat.

The cutaway front of the morning tail coat differs from the evening tail coat ( dress coat ) in that the waist of former is cut obliquely while the waist of the latter is cut horizontally, and the tail is cut differently from the swallow tailcoat used for evening dress.

The cutaway design was first used in 1977 by the Santa Clara Vanguard under drum caption head Fred Sanford and the Oakland Crusaders under Tom Float.

Much of the episode features a cutaway style of humor that is typically used in Family Guy, many of which feature cultural references including the Incredible Hulk, The Dukes of Hazzard, Three Little Pigs, and Couplehood.