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Technical advisor

professional title

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2024
Entity authorityQ7692317 ↗
Source-derived summary

In film production, a technical advisor is someone who advises the director on the convincing portrayal of a subject. The advisor's expertise adds realism both to the acting and to the setting of a movie.

Nipo T. Strongheart was a noted technical advisor on several movies dealing with Native Americans.

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“Technical advisor” enters the record as professional title. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Technical, advisor and professional can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Technical advisor” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.