movie camera

British

noun

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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She was a bag of doorknobs, but the movie camera found the gazelle inside the unicorn and captured the joy she radiated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 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

The now historic images of that horrific day were captured by snapshots and home movie camera footage taken by people in the crowd, including the 26-second 8mm film shot by Dallas clothier Abraham Zapruder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

Upon advice, I arranged to leave in Cairo all of my luggage and four cameras, one a movie camera.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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