four-waller
four-waller noun: a company that rents a cinema or theater under a four-wall arrangement.
Noun
four-waller (plural four-wallers)
- A company that rents a cinema or theater under a four-wall arrangement.
- With their audience's desires carefully measured and films made to match those desires, four-wallers then saturated local television markets with advertisements for their movies […]2009, Joshua Blu Buhs, Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend, page 155
- A studio consisting of buildings but little in the way of equipment.
- The sets and corridors were all built with very low ceilings. They were four-wallers, so that meant lighting through grills or hiding lights or having in-shot lamps. I think the look of the film is due to the nature of the sets […]1979, American Cinematographer, volume 60, page 768
- Now it is more common for studios to operate as 'four wallers', that is just the buildings with very limited supporting facilities and for all the personnel to be engaged by the production company.2004, Robert Angell, Getting Into Films & Television, page 24
Forms of four-waller
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Questions about four-waller
- What does four-waller mean?
- Four-waller means a company that rents a cinema or theater under a four-wall arrangement.
- What part of speech is four-waller?
- Four-waller is a noun.
- What is the plural of four-waller?
- The plural of four-waller is four-wallers.
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