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film pack

American  

noun

Photography.
  1. a number of sheets of film arranged one over the other and connected so that they can be exposed successively.


film pack British  

noun

  1. a box containing several sheets of film for use in a plate camera

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of film pack

First recorded in 1960–65


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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

Most revolutionary of all is the revolving film pack.

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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