telefilm
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- noun
- /ˈtɛlɪˌfɪlm/
- Archaic
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telefilme
- The documentary-style telefilm explores the history of space exploration and its greatest achievements.
Examples
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In the entertainment area, telefilm from the United States and, to a somewhat lesser extent, Britain, had been prominent from the start of television in Sweden, and its role increased in importance in the early 1960s.
Academic text (1998) -
Stopped, the 2003 BBC pseudo-documentary, a fictional disaster telefilm in which "a train strike is the first in a chain of events that led to a meltdown of the country's transport system," doesn't seem like the most thrilling of source materials.
Blog text (28) -
Telefilm Canada was created in 1967 to support Canadian film production, and the Canada Council began to receive monies from the federal government in the same year.
Academic text (2014) -
She also appeared in the telefilms The Advocates, Devil and Night Sins, as well as well as the Lifetime movie Plain Truth.
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I felt the huge failure of comedy, such as sitcoms, on Canadian television could only be successful if showrunners were comedy writers, not Telefilm form fillers.
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The telefilm follows a family as they navigate life's challenges while living on a remote farm.
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Last night, I watched a thrilling telefilm that captured the excitement of a detective solving a mystery.
Synonyms
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A story shown as moving images in a cinema or on screen
How Cinematic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Telefilm joins the prefix tele- meaning 'far', as in television and telephone, with film meaning 'movie'. So a telefilm is a movie made to be shown on TV rather than in cinemas.