B roll

See also: B-roll, Broll, and broll

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Noun

B roll (usually uncountable, plural B rolls)

  1. (television, film) Supplemental or alternative footage intercut with the main shot, used for example to indicate simultaneous action or flashbacks.
    • 2018 July 26, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “A documentary muckraker takes on the tech sector of health in The Bleeding Edge”, in The Onion AV Club‎:
      The Bleeding Edge isn’t an audacious or essayistic piece of filmmaking; it’s overstretched with talking-head interviews, montages of corporate videos, and creepy B-roll shots of hospital equipment.

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