Cinefilm vs. Film

Any of various obsolete film formats, including 8 mm, 9.5 mm, 16 mm, and Super 8, formerly much used for making home movies to be viewed on a projector.

(countable) A film recorded on this medium.

(transitive) To record onto cinefilm.

A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.

Example: ‘a clear plastic film for wrapping food’;

(photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.

A movie.

Cinema; movies as a group.

A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.

(ambitransitive) To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.

Example: ‘A Hollywood studio was filming on location in NYC.’; ‘I tried to film the UFO as it passed overhead.’;

(transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.

A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.

Example: ‘He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.’;

hence, any thin layer covering a surface.

A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.

Example: ‘Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.’;

The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the sensitive salts of photographic plates.

a flexible sheet of celluloid or other plastic material to which a light-sensitive layer has been applied, used for recording images by the processes of photography. It is commonly used in rolls mounted within light-proof canisters suitable for simple insertion into cameras designed for such canisters. On such rolls, varying numbers of photographs may be taken before the canister needs to be replaced.

a motion picture.

the art of making motion pictures; - used mostly in the phrase the film.

a thin transparent sheet of plastic, used for wrapping objects; as, polyethylene film.

To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.

Example: ‘It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.’;

to make a motion picture of (any event or literary work); to record with a movie camera; as, to film the inauguration ceremony; to film Dostoevsky's War and Peace.

a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement;

Example: ‘they went to a movie every Saturday night’; ‘the film was shot on location’;

a medium that disseminates moving pictures;

Example: ‘theater pieces transferred to celluloid’; ‘this story would be good cinema’; ‘film coverage of sporting events’;

a thin coating or layer;

Example: ‘the table was covered with a film of dust’;

a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things

photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies

make a film or photograph of something;

Example: ‘take a scene’; ‘shoot a movie’;

record in film;

Example: ‘The coronation was filmed’;

A film, also called a movie, motion picture or moving picture, is a work of visual art used to simulate experiences that communicate ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound, and more rarely, other sensory stimulations.