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celluloid
[ sel-yuh-loid ]
noun
- a tough, highly flammable substance consisting essentially of nitrocellulose and camphor: once used in the manufacture of motion-picture and x-ray film, it is now used in a limited line of other products, including guitar picks, musical instruments, and table tennis balls.
- motion-picture film:
He was an intense director and a scrupulous editor, famous for leaving piles of celluloid on the cutting-room floor.
adjective
- Informal. of or involving motion pictures:
a star of the stage who was never lured into the celluloid industry.
celluloid
/ ˈsɛljʊˌlɔɪd /
noun
- a flammable thermoplastic material consisting of cellulose nitrate mixed with a plasticizer, usually camphor: used in sheets, rods, and tubes for making a wide range of articles
- a cellulose derivative used for coating film
- one of the transparent sheets on which the constituent drawings of an animated film are prepared
- a transparent sheet used as an overlay in artwork
- cinema film
Word History and Origins
Origin of celluloid1
Example Sentences
At the heart of celluloid, however, was the natural substance cellulose.
Creative Cauldron’s producing director Laura Connors Hull brought them the obscure yet charming book that surprisingly had never before been reworked for stage or celluloid, and the pair got to work last spring.
People surviving or dying in ways at once shudderingly alien and hauntingly familiar, if only on celluloid.
Robinson’s film work was just one part of his meteoric career, and his choices were limited by industry practices of the times, but the problematic celluloid images stuck.
In the most crowd-pleasing section of the exhibition—dubbed Stage and Screen—hang his pictures of celluloid legends.
“Everyone could see their love right there on celluloid,” added their son, Stephen Bogart.
Of course, a great literary work does not a great film make—if it did, Shakespeare would need merely to be slathered on celluloid.
On celluloid, similar fates have been met—sometimes even worse.
In her hands, celluloid comes off as a medium that allows for old-fashioned rumination, with some of the slowness of oil paint.
Real celluloid ivory combs, fit for the President's wife, sure enough.
No high gloss to look like Celluloid or Paper Collars, but a nice medium finish that has all the appearance of new work.
The front of the box is provided with a handle and a celluloid label for the name of the contained medium.
Then he sat down and pulled out his mothers celluloid memorandum tablets.
Just behind the nervous young man with the celluloid collar sat a stout individual with a bald head.
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