movie camera
US and Canadian 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 called: (Brit) cine camera
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How to use movie camera in a sentence
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.
The Vagrant Duke | George GibbsDid you see anybody standing up there taking motion pictures with a movie camera?
Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyBob got out the movie camera, intent upon taking several scenes that would be “really different.”
Captured by the Arabs | James H. Foster“This ought to be a swell scene,” laughed Bob, focusing the movie camera on the dancing mob.
The Forest of Mystery | James H. Foster
As the darkness closed in on them, Bob held his rifle tighter, Joe focused the movie camera.
The Forest of Mystery | James H. Foster
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