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celluloid
[ sel-yuh-loid ]
noun
- a tough, highly flammable substance consisting essentially of nitrocellulose and camphor: once used in the manufacture of motion-picture and x-ray film, it is now used in a limited line of other products, including guitar picks, musical instruments, and table tennis balls.
- motion-picture film:
He was an intense director and a scrupulous editor, famous for leaving piles of celluloid on the cutting-room floor.
adjective
- Informal. of or involving motion pictures:
a star of the stage who was never lured into the celluloid industry.
celluloid
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noun
- a flammable thermoplastic material consisting of cellulose nitrate mixed with a plasticizer, usually camphor: used in sheets, rods, and tubes for making a wide range of articles
- a cellulose derivative used for coating film
- one of the transparent sheets on which the constituent drawings of an animated film are prepared
- a transparent sheet used as an overlay in artwork
- cinema film
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of celluloid1
Example Sentences
Controversy: The movie was considered a thinly veiled swipe at real-life newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, who did not take kindly to the celluloid portrait.
Themes of entrapment, unrequited love and loss penetrate the screen, with Lachman conveying the narrative through a bespoke aesthetic captured on different celluloid formats.
But as the authors show in this 240-page book, women like Louise Brooks, Ida Lupino and Katharine Hepburn blew through the celluloid ceiling and lifted up generations of women in the movies.
Singer demonstrates himself to be a mad scientist of celluloid sensation, creating a hybridized monster of influences, images, sounds and emotions that you won’t soon forget.
The year it opened coincided with the first projected celluloid film.
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