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Film \Film\, v. t.
1. To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
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It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.
--Shak.
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2. 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 Crime and
Punishment; or Tolstoy's War and Peace.
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Film \Film\, n. [AS. film skin, fr. fell skin; akin to fylmen
membrane, OFries. filmene skin. See {Fell} skin.]
1. A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing
opacity.
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He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.
--Pope.
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2. hence, any thin layer covering a surface.
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3. A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.
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Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.
--Shak.
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4. (Photog.) The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion,
containing the sensitive salts of photographic plates.
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5. (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.
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6. a motion picture.
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7. the art of making motion pictures; -- used mostly in the
phrase the film.
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8. a thin transparent sheet of plastic, used for wrapping
objects; as, polyethylene film.
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{Celluloid film} (Photog.), a thin flexible sheet of
celluloid, coated with a sensitized emulsion of gelatin,
and used as a substitute for photographic plates.

{Cut film} (Photog.), a celluloid film cut into pieces
suitable for use in a camera.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]