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movie film

British

noun

Also called: cine film. photographic film, wound on a spool, usually 8, 16, or 35 millimetres wide, up to several hundred metres long, and having one or two lines of sprocket holes along its length enabling it to be used in a movie camera

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A miniature X-wing starfighter used in the 1977 movie film “Star Wars” sold over the weekend for $3.1 million by Heritage Auctions.

From Washington Times • Oct. 19, 2023

I know when I got on "Silicon Valley" he understood what movie, film, TV was, right?

From Salon • May 8, 2020

For seven days, the 30-year-old Moravian-born photographer roamed the city with his East German Exakta Varex camera loaded with movie film, the only stock he could find at short notice.

From The Guardian • Apr. 30, 2018

But it is the jumpiness and the contradictions of Baldwin’s text that play so well in Peck’s movie: film, too, often jumps around and contradicts itself—or reality.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 5, 2017

His eyes fluttered open and he saw Goober’s face all askew, like on a broken movie film.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

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