movie camera

British  

noun

1. Also called: cine camera.  a camera in which a strip of film moves past the lens, usually to give 16 or 24 exposures per second, thus enabling moving pictures to be taken

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movie camera

In childhood, he paints an abstract picture of God in which the Almighty eerily resembles a movie camera.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

He’s a man with a movie camera, pointing it at whatever or whoever is around him—which for many years included Adrian—and finding wellsprings of humor, truth, surprise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026

"These new molecules have provided, for the first time, the ability to see single cells independently activated, almost as if you're using a very special, sensitive movie camera to record brain activity while it's happening."

From Science Daily ● Dec. 19, 2025

Everyone's got a movie camera in their pocket.

From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2023

A cheap movie camera was slung over his shoulder and under his arm he had a bundle which appeared to be a rolled-up bedsheet.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole