nitrate film

American  

[nahy-treyt film, -trit] / ˈnaɪ treɪt ˌfɪlm, -trɪt /

noun

1. a formerly produced film stock using a base of nitrocellulose: extremely flammable and tending to erode at a relatively early age.

2. a motion picture made with or printed on this film.

   Preserving these nitrate films is difficult and hazardous, and projecting them requires a special license.

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Etymology

Origin of nitrate film

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

In the other hand, she held what Boaz recognized as a storage box for the silver nitrate film from the Grand Dame’s archive room.

From Literature

Whatever she saw, it clearly shook her, even worse than trying to pull out the reel of silver nitrate film.

From Literature

Three more followed, leaving a small tangle of film reel, nitrate film reel, just before Boaz and Ashmodai.

From Literature

There were tins of old photographs and negatives of nitrate film reels from the 1800s and 1900s.

From Los Angeles Times

George Willeman, who oversees the nitrate film vaults for the library, recalled being amazed when Stathes, then in his 20s, took a seat in the archive and identified reel after reel of unidentified cartoons made decades before he was even born.

From Seattle Times