What is "backdrops"

Usage examples of "backdrops".

The ropes ran up from the pipes on which the backdrops were hung, went over pulleys just under the roof, and came down to one side of the stage, where a complicated series of counterweights kept the backdrops well enough balanced to be raised or lowered by one man.

It even had a fly loft, a space above the stage where backdrops and flats could be lifted when they weren't needed onstage.

Nine backdrops and canvas flats were suspended above the stage now, each of them weighing two or three hundred pounds.

The ropes holding the backdrops were still tied to the railing, as he'd left them, the weights lined up along the outer edge of the catwalk.

In any case, there were three or tour of them standing around onstage, and the backdrops with their weighted bottoms to keep them straight weighed hundreds of pounds, and they were dropping toward the stage like huge guillotines, one after the other, from the front to the rear, slicing down through the air with loud shushes, the weighted bottoms crashing onto the stage, the drops continuing to fall, the canvas piling up like starched laundry, finally the metal pipes, as long as the stage was wide and very heavy, i budding down, the ropes whistling through the pulleys under i lie theater roof, the rope ends released from the weight cages over at the catwalk, the ropes pulling completely through and I ailing to the stage like dead brown snakes.

At any rate, they hadn't cleared the backdrops off him, they were still covering his head and part of his back.

Street scenes served as backdrops for the Voices and my own internal dialogue.

The same Hollywood backdrops, Bobby Inge with boys and girls, unknown pretties screwing.

There are frames without outlines, extremely long vertical or horizontal rectangles, portraits of the protagonists superimposed on top of several separate frames, and flowered patterns used as decorative backdrops behind the characters.

The use of images of characters superimposed over several frames and decorative backdrops is a style which dates back to the lyrical, stylish pictures popular in women's and fashion magazines since the prewar period.

A reader of today who doesn't have his mind filled to the bursting point with nostalgia can only observe that most of the pulp sf was terrible literature, that the love interest was taken directly from the sugar bowl, that the science was idiotic and the dizzying views hardly more than backdrops, sea stories on a cosmic level.

True, she'd painted backdrops for one high school play, as she'd told Arthur Tucker.

This room contains backdrops of the sea and jungle which can be interchanged.

Quicker than a wink, they had what looked like an interior TV stage, backdrops, platform, mikes, all erected.