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cine camera

British  
/ ˈsɪnɪ /

noun

  1. US and Canadian term: movie camera.  a camera in which a strip of film moves past the lens, usually to give 16 or 24 exposures per second, thus enabling moving pictures to be taken

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Accompanied by a photographer and with a cine camera to make a home movie, the Disneys descended on the tiny village.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2023

I was a 19-year-old at art school and I remember that I looked though the lens of a Super 8 cine camera one day and I was transfixed by what I saw.

From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2020

He also had a cine camera, and I sometimes feel guilty that my own children, unlike me, have no moving images of themselves to look back on.

From The Guardian • May 19, 2013

Lionel Jeffries's father owned a cine camera and projector and some of his earliest memories were of home-made movies which he edited with his father, on the kitchen table.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2010