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backlot

n. 1 The farthest section of a parking lot. 2 ''(Hollywood):'' The area of a movie studio where outdoor scenes were filmed. Typically generic "towns" such as western, which could be re-used as needed.

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Backlot

A backlot is an area behind or adjoining a movie studio, containing permanent exterior buildings for outdoor scenes in filmmaking or television productions, or space for temporary set construction.

Usage examples of "backlot".

Before returning to the set, he advised them to get familiar with the self-contained world of the backlot.

They had not added that their own security chief disagreed and avoided mentioning the obvious: the backlot was relatively cheap.

He had thirty seconds on his pursuers but Hakim had made it clear that they must expect communication between the exterior sets and the guarded backlot gate.

Soon the backlots sprouted whole streets in Ankh-Morpork, palaces from Pseudopolis, castles from the Hublands.

Floodlights illuminated the rows of model houses, making them look flat and two-dimensional, like painted facades on a movie backlot.

We got some sandwiches from the commissary and sat under the trees on one of the backlots, just talking.