continuity girl:

(also ‘script supervisor‘; plural: ‘continuity girls‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound as in “kong”; male: ‘continuity man’)

a woman whose job is to see that an actor’s make-up, clothes, etc. are consistent, i.e. according to the previous shot of the same scene in a film making, especially when the scene is a long one or shot on different days,

a continuity girl (L) checking the ropes on an actor

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It is the job of the continuity girl to see that an actor sipping tea from a cup and has drunk half of it in one shot, has only half a cupful of tea, not a full cup, in the next shot, or suppose an actor in a scene is talking to another for a long time while smoking a cigarette, and it is the continuity girl’s job to see that the cigarette gets shorter and shorter as the time passes, in shot after shot.

a radio station continuity announcer

Note: A ‘continuity announcer‘, on the other hand, is an employee of a TV channel or a radio station who talks about or announces  programme details, programme schedules in between programmes or before or after trailers or advertisements. The out-of-vision continuity announcer is the one who is not seen on the TV screen, only the voice is heard, but the in-vision continuity announcer is the one whose voice is heard and whose face is seen on the TV.
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