| film festival | a cinematic festival that features films (usually films produced during the past year) |
moviemaking
movie making
film making | the production of movies |
film editing
cutting | the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film |
megapode
mound bird
mound-bird
mound builder
scrub fowl | large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia, build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs |
slave-making ant
slave-maker | an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants |
airplane propeller
airscrew
prop | a propeller that rotates to push against air |
cinema
movie theater
movie theatre
movie house
picture palace | a theater where films are shown |
| coffee maker | a kitchen appliance for brewing coffee automatically |
| designer drug | a psychoactive drug deliberately synthesized to avoid anti-drug laws, mimics the effects of a banned drug, law was revised in to ban designer drugs |
dinner theater
dinner theatre | a theater at which dinner is included in the price of admission |
double-prop
double-propeller plane
twin-prop
twin-propeller-plane | a propeller plane with an engine that drives two propellers in opposite directions (for stability) |
| espresso maker | a coffee maker that forces live steam under pressure through dark roasted coffee grounds |
| film | a thin coating or layer, the table was covered with a film of dust |
| film photographic film | photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion, used to make negatives or transparencies |
| film plastic film | a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things |
| film advance | a mechanism for advancing film in a camera or projector |
home theater
home theatre | television and video equipment designed to reproduce in the home the experience of being in a movie theater |
| ice maker | an appliance included in some electric refrigerators for making ice cubes |
little theater
little theatre | a small theater for experimental drama or collegiate or community groups |
motion-picture film
movie film
cine-film | photographic film several hundred feet long and wound on a spool, to be used in a movie camera |
movie projector
cine projector
film projector | projects successive frames from a reel of film to create moving pictures |
music hall
vaudeville theater
vaudeville theatre | a theater in which vaudeville is staged |
operating room
OR
operating theater
operating theatre
surgery | a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations, great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic |
| orthochromatic film | a photographic film sensitive to green and blue and violet light |
| panchromatic film | photographic film sensitive to light of all colors (including red) |
| prop | a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling |
property
prop | any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie, before every scene he ran down his checklist of props |
| roll film | photographic film wound on a spool |
cling film
clingfilm
Saran Wrap | a thin plastic film made of saran (trade name Saran Wrap) that sticks to itself, used for wrapping food |
single prop
single-propeller plane | a propeller plane with a single propeller |
| soap film | a film left on objects after they have been washed in soap |
| sound film | motion-picture film with sound effects and dialogue recorded on it |
| tea maker | a covered spoon with perforations |
theater
theatre
house | a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented, the house was full |
theater curtain
theatre curtain | a hanging cloth that conceals the stage from the view of the audience, rises or parts at the beginning and descends or closes between acts and at the end of a performance |
theater stage
theatre stage | a stage in a theater on which actors can perform |
winery
wine maker | distillery where wine is made |
| Xay film | photographic film used to make Xay pictures |
| morale builder | something or someone who influences by building or strengthening morale |
film
cinema
celluloid | a medium that disseminates moving pictures, theater pieces transferred to celluloid, this story would be good cinema, film coverage of sporting events |
theater ticket
theatre ticket | a ticket good for admission to a theater |
a movie
film picture moving picture
moving-picture show
motion picture
motion-picture show
picture show
pic
flick | a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement, they went to a movie every Saturday night, the film was shot on location |
feature
feature film | the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater, the feature tonight is `Casablanca' |
| collage film | a movie that juxtaposes different kinds of footage |
documentary
docudrama
documentary film
infotainment | a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event |
| film noir | a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters, film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the s |
pilot program
pilot film
pilot | a program exemplifying a contemplated series, intended to attract sponsors |
| film clip | a strip of motion picture film used in a telecast |
dramaturgy
dramatic art
dramatics
theater
theatre r | the art of writing and producing plays |
| coup de theatre | a highly successful theatrical production |