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Why the penultimate shot is called the Abby Singer

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The Abby Singer shot is immortalized purely out of impatience. Named after an infamous production manager who constantly tried to speed up the crew by falsely promising that the current camera setup was 'the second to last one', his deceitful tactic became the permanent global term for the penultimate setup.

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