Celluloid

Definitions

1. Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic film.
   countable, uncountable
2. The genre of cinema; film.
   attributive, countable, figuratively, often, uncountable
3. An item, such as a jacket, made from celluloid.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

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Examples

“1894 June, Antonia Dickson, W. K. L. Dickson, Edison's Invention of the Kineto-Phonograph: Account of the Invention, article in Century Magazine, Volume 48, Issue⟳ 2, Then followed some experiments with drums, over which sheets of sensitized celluloid film were drawn, the edges being pressed into a narrow slot in the surface, similar in construction to the old tin-foil phonograph.”

“"And will you now, sir, take⟳ off your celluloid collar and permit⟳ me to burn it in the candle? Thank⟳ you, sir. And will you allow⟳ me to smash your spectacles for you with my hammer⟳? Thank⟳ you."”

“Celluloid railway comedy was hardly to appear⟳ again until the mid-thirties and, later, in Britain.”

“In particular, they set⟳ Kerouac and Ginsberg to the specifications of an emergent superficial form⟳—celluloid antiheroes—attractive to those in want⟳ of adventure and who would soon be reading On the Road (1957).”

“'What with that bearded Assyrian bull in London, and this Thug down here, who has ruined my clean⟳ celluloid, you seem to be keeping queer company, Ted Malone.'”

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