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sound camera

American  

noun

  1. a motion-picture camera that is capable of photographing silently at the normal speed of 24 fps and operating in synchronization with separate audio recording equipment.

Etymology

Origin of sound camera

First recorded in 1900–05

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The final thing the soldier saw before he died was “the zoom lens of a . . . sound camera capturing his last moments of life.”

From Washington Post

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