Once the line has been assembled and justified, using space fotomats of the necessary sizes, the fotomats move inside an optical apparatus that sends a brief flash of light toward the sensitive film.
In the intermittent projector, which more nearly resembles the type used in theatre projection, each frame of film is momentarily held stationary in the projector while a brief flash of light is passed through it.
"We're calling it the sound of innovation," Mr. Schwartz said, adding that each commercial is to begin and end with a brief flash of light — and yes, he called it the "flash of innovation".
Soon after Novacek finished speaking these words, a loud alarm sounded, accompanied by a brief flash of light; one of the staffers had put his hand too close to a biology textbook that was mounted next to a cautionary sticker of the type used in Cobb County, Georgia, to warn that a book includes "material on evolution".
Muons are detected by a brief flash of light as they pass through the plastic scintillator.
Most stellar remnants will be ejected from the galaxy in this fashion, but a small percentage (<1%) of them will collide-and-merge with another, creating a brief flash of light.
