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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
Often used in the Indiana Jones franchise. When a character travels a long distance, a short scene of a dot, line or whatever vehicle they're taking moving across a map from the starting point to the ending point plays in order to show where they're going or emphasise how far they traveled.