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.

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Etymology

Origin of sound camera

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Newsreel companies never know when he will call up to borrow a $45,000 sound camera, truck and delighted, grinning crew to help their King & Emperor shoot a scene.

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But when his re searchers came to him with the idea of a home movie sound camera, he gave en thusiastic approval.

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Probably anyone with the fare could have taken a sound camera along the main highways of African hunting country, but Martin & Osa Johnson did it first.

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Her reportorial technique is that of the sound camera, neutrally and exhaustively recording the scene.

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Since the dangerous pick-up at sea would itself be news the plane carried a $20,000 sound camera.

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