Hairstylist
AKA: Hairstyles, Hair stylist, Hairdresser, Hair dresser, Hair Styles
Person responsible for maintaining actor s' hairstyles during filming.

Hardtop
Slang for a normal indoor theatre. See also ozoner .

Hays Production Code
AKA: Hays Code, Hays Production Office, Hays Office
In the 1920s, the American public became alarmed at the increasingly frequent portrayal of violence, sex, and lawlessness on movie screens. Wishing to avoid government regulation, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America created their own regulatory body and appointed Postmaster General Will H. Hays as head. His influence became so great that this body became known as the "Hays Office". The Hays Production Code for Motion Pictures was introduced in 1934, and by today's standards was extremely strict. It was mainly concerned with violence and sex, but had references to crime in general. After WWII, the growing popularity of television provided the public with more viewing choice. The Hays Office came under increasing fire for restricting the creativity of filmmakers, as it had defined specific requirements for depicting certain events. For example, under the Hays Code a filmmaker could not present revenge in modern times as being justified, nor could they depict details of how crimes were committed, or show a criminal profiting from crime. Following the Supreme Court's Miracle decision in the 1950s, films were recognized as protected under the First Amendment, and as such the Hays Office's demands were not legally enforceable. Films such as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Blowup inspired MPAA president Jack Valenti to abolish the Hays Code as his first step in overhauling the certificates system in 1967. See also blacklisting .



High Concept
Describes a film that includes and/or exploits certain elements (e.g. fast action, big-name stars) in order to attract a large audience.

HDCP
High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection. Copy-protection scheme developed by Intel to be used in conjunction with DVI and HDMI connections.

HDMI
High-Definition Multimedia Interface. USB-like digital video connectivity standard designed as a successor to DVI ; can transmit both uncompressed digital audio and video signals; protected by HDCP digital copy protection.

HD-DVD
High-definition digital video disc. Several formats have been proposed for these high-capacity DVDs, including Blu-ray .

HDTV
High-definition television. High-resolution digital television broadcast and playback system composed of roughly a million or more pixels , 16:9 aspect-ratio screens, and AC3 digital audio. A subset of digital television, HDTV formats include 1080i and 720p resolution.

HDTV-ready
Used to describe any TV that can display high-definition formats when connected to a separate HDTV tuner or source. These TVs generally have built-in tuners for receiving regular NTSC broadcasts, but not ATSC digital broadcasts. The CEA's official term for an HDTV-ready TV is HDTV monitor.

HDTV monitor
Official CEA term for HDTV-ready .

HDTV tuner
See DTV tuner

HOD
An abbreviation for "Head of Department". Sometimes known in US as coordinators.

Hold
A word used on a continuity report to indicate that a particular take should be kept, but not developed. See also print .

Honeywagon
Usually a trailer, or truck and trailer combination outfitted for and used as the dressing room for actor s when on location shoots away from permanent soundstage s.


Horizontal Resolution
Number of vertical lines (or pixels) that can be resolved from one side of an image to the other. While the vertical resolution of all analog video sources is the same (480 lines), the horizontal resolution varies according to the source. Some examples for typical sources: VHS VCRs (240 lines), analog TV broadcasts (330 lines), non-HDTV digital satellite TV (up to 380 lines), and DVD players (540 lines). DTV signals have horizontal resolution that ranges from 640 lines for SDTV to 1,280 lines (for 720p HDTV) or 1,920 lines (for 1080i HDTV).

Hot Set
A set where set dressers and prop persons have finalized placing funiture and props for filming a scene and on which a scene is in the process of being shot ; labeled thus to indicate that it should not be changed or disturbed.

Hype
Overzealous praise or advertising.