A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.
hence, any thin layer covering a surface.
A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.
Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.
The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the sensitive salts of photographic plates. (Photog.)
a flexible sheet of celluloid or other plastic material to which a light-sensitive layer has been applied, used for recording images by the processes of photography. It is commonly used in rolls mounted within light-proof canisters suitable for simple insertion into cameras designed for such canisters. On such rolls, varying numbers of photographs may be taken before the canister needs to be replaced. (Photog.)
a motion picture.
the art of making motion pictures; -- used mostly in the phrase the film.
a thin transparent sheet of plastic, used for wrapping objects; as, polyethylene film.
Phrases & Compounds
Celluloid film
a thin flexible sheet of celluloid, coated with a sensitized emulsion of gelatin, and used as a substitute for photographic plates.
Cut film
a celluloid film cut into pieces suitable for use in a camera.
Film
v. t.
To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.
to make a motion picture of (any event or literary work); to record with a movie camera; as, to film the inauguration ceremony; to film Dostoevsky's War and Peace.