cutaway shot

cutaway shot
  a brief shot that momentarily interrupts a continuously-filmed action, by briefly inserting another related action, object, or person (sometimes not part of the principal scene or main action), followed by a cutback to the original shot; often filmed from the POV of the character and used to break up a sequence and provide some visual relief, or to ease the transition from one shot to the next, or to provide additional information, or to hint at an impending change; reaction shots are usually cutaways; cross-cutting is a series of cutaways and cutbacks indicating concurrent action; a cutaway is different from an insert shot.
  Examples: a quick cutaway shot of a newspaper headline in North by Northwest (1959) - after the famous crop-dusting scene or the view of the roulette number being bet upon in Casablanca (1942)

Glossary of cinematic terms . 2015.

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