TELEFILM Definition & Meaning

telefilm

[ tel-uh-film ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a motion picture intended primarily to be shown on television.

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Origin of telefilm¹

First recorded in 1935–40; tele(vision) + film

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Indeed, the imprint of the original production, memorialized in a telefilm recording of a 1980 tour stop in Los Angeles, is unavoidable.

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Champion won an Emmy for her choreography in the 1975 telefilm “Queen of the Stardust Ballroom.”

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Back in 2006, Milch and HBO announced plans to wrap up the series in a pair of telefilms; that didn’t happen.

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Smith has crafted dramatic pieces around other historical figures: His solo work “A Huey P. Newton Story,” which he brought to Woolly in 1996, was turned into an award-winning telefilm.

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The telefilm of his life, “Door to Door,” was broadcast on TNT in 2002 to favorable notices.

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