film pack
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of film pack
First recorded in 1960–65
Example Sentences
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“I’m bam-bamming with the old four-by-five Speed Graphic, the film pack in those days. And I look around, and some GI over in a ditch says, ‘Sir?’
From Seattle Times • Apr. 14, 2024
Heading into the evening, the darkly comic “Banshees of Inisherin” led the film pack with eight nominations.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2023
Harvey Weinstein no longer leads the independent film pack; the big buyers that remain, like Fox Searchlight, have been hammered in recent months.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2010
But most of the shots taken of Cernan by his fellow astronaut Tom Stafford were lost when a film pack accidently floated out of the open hatch and disappeared in space.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it has a hinged back which can be easily opened, the film pack dropped in place, back closed, and the adapter then loaded into the plate camera just as an ordinary plate holder is.
From Premo Cameras 1914 by Canadian Kodak Company
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