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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

He became interested in film as a boy, when an aunt gave him a 16-millimeter movie camera for his birthday.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2023

“The movie camera will shortly be put to use. That harmonica was rather cheap.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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