Fade-out
noun
Subject Field: Cinematography

The end of a scene is progressively darkened until it blacks out. Brodbeck, 1968			- Hyperonyms - Fade Bibliography Index Home Conceptual tree
Context: Usually the fade employed for such a continuity link is really a fade-out in one scene and a fade-in in the next. The end of the leading scene grows darker, darker, darker-all the way to complete blackout. Brodbeck, 1968 Attestation: 2 Dissolvenza in chiusura Reliability: 3