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movie camera

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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

"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

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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

Structuralists love the railroad: The development of the movie camera parallels that of the steam engine.

From New York Times Jun. 29, 2023

Another appears to be from Los Angeles, with silhouetted illustrations of a movie camera, and the Hollywood Hills.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

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