movie film
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1.8
- noun
- /ˈmuːvi fɪlm/
- Specialized
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film de cine
- The movie film and photographs are priceless as examples of early aerial photography, and they still have great value for Peruvianist scholars.
Examples
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Thousands of vertical, oblique, and ground photographs, as well as movie film, were taken of settlement, land use, archaeological, and physical landscape features.
Academic text (1993) -
The IMAX/OMNIMAX format is nine times the size of standard thirty-five millimeter movie film.
Academic text (1994) -
By analyzing movie film taken with a handheld camera by a bystander, Abraham Zapruder, he helped verify the Warren Commission's estimate of the number of shots fired in the Kennedy assassination.
Academic text (2000) -
We bought several rolls of movie film to capture our family vacation memories.
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The director chose to shoot the entire project on 16mm movie film for a nostalgic feel.
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He carefully stored the old movie film in a cool, dry place to preserve it for future generations.
Synonyms
932
3.8
Recorded video used in news or films
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4.4
A roll of film used in a movie projector or camera
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3.3
A long strip of pictures on film that you show with a projector
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4.0
A long roll of plastic with many pictures that goes in a movie camera
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3.1
A thin strip of material that cameras use to take pictures with light
A long roll of photo film used to record movies
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun-noun combination simply specifies a type of film used for movies — a learner who knows 'movie' (a motion picture) and 'film' (light-sensitive strip) can infer this is film for recording/showing movies. This compositional, descriptive pattern (modifier + head noun) is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner would readily understand the meaning.
Etymology
Movie film comes from the simple image of a long, thin strip of film that runs through a camera to make 'moving pictures'. That's why movie film means the long roll of material used to record pictures that move.