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The movie Saving Private Ryan showed the second world war through a scrim of Vietnam movies.
This is a gripping story about a psychiatrist's patient who is obsessed with the idea that what we call reality is only a thin scrim over a much darker world.
A series of painted scrims and sets slide across the large stage, allowing the children to seem to fly against a backdrop of stars twinkling in the sky.
A loose-weave linen, scrim is brilliant at giving a final shine to windows and glassware.
The caped dancers on diving boards are now located to the far left of the cake behind the scrim.
In general, anything that is lit will be seen on both sides of a scrim: scrims do not absorb light.
However, in theater a scrim can refer to any such thin screen, and is made out of a wide variety of materials.
Scrim is also used in clothing, usually covering the face or head.
Felted filters contain randomly placed fibers supported by a woven backing material (scrim).
Scrim is a glass fibre (previously burlap) open mesh tape used to cover the joint in plasterboard/wall board prior to plastering.
Scrim has a rectangular weave that is similar in size in its openings to a window screen.
To achieve the illusion of extra depth, often desirable if one is re-creating a sky, the cyclorama can be paired with a sharkstooth scrim backdrop.