Definition of interruptus

(Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)

If , in preparing that shot for the inevitable showing to your friends , you interrupt the sequence to paste in a_few frames of the child 's grandmother watching this event , you have begun to be an artist in film ; you are employing the basic technique of film ; you are cutting .

(Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)

The slow tapping of a cane on the stone steps coming up to the tower interrupted his reverie .

(E. Lucas Myers, "The Vindication of Dr. Nestor,"...)

Time elapsed but the doctor was obviously unconscious of its passage until an unwelcome knock on the door interrupted the processes of nature .