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movie camera
noun
- 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 Also calledBritcine camera
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No one controlled a movie camera and an editing room with more élan than Peckinpah.
He knew little of movie camera men, but imagined them rather given to the depiction of villainies than the accomplishment of them.
Did you see anybody standing up there taking motion pictures with a movie camera?
Bob got out the movie camera, intent upon taking several scenes that would be “really different.”
“This ought to be a swell scene,” laughed Bob, focusing the movie camera on the dancing mob.
As the darkness closed in on them, Bob held his rifle tighter, Joe focused the movie camera.
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