close call close shave squeak squeaker narrow escape | something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin |
camera care | keeping a camera in good working order |
straight and narrow strait and narrow | the way of proper and honest behavior, he taught his children to keep strictly to the straight and narrow |
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 |
western narrow-mouthed toad Gastrophryne olivacea | small secretive toad with smooth tough skin of central and western North America |
eastern narrow-mouthed toad Gastrophryne carolinensis | small toad of southeastern United States |
box camera box Kodak | a simple camera shaped like a rectangular box |
camera photographic camera | equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other) |
camera lens optical lens | a lens that focuses the image in a camera |
camera lucida | an optical device consisting of an attachment that enables an observer to view simultaneously the image and a drawing surface for sketching it |
camera obscura | a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface |
camera tripod | a tripod used to support a camera |
canal boat narrow boat narrowboat | a long boat that carries freight and is narrow enough to be used in canals |
candid camera | a miniature camera with a fast lens |
digital camera | a camera that encodes an image digitally and store it for later reproduction |
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 |
flash camera | a camera with a photoflash attachment |
motion-picture camera movie camera cineamera | a camera that takes a sequence of photographs that can give the illusion of motion when viewed in rapid succession |
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 |
narrowbody aircraft narrow-body aircraft narrow-body | a commercial airliner with a single aisle |
narrow gauge | a railroad track (or its width) narrower than the standard . inches |
narrow wale | corduroy with narrow ribs |
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) |
point-and-shoot camera | a lightweight photographic camera with an autofocus |
Polaroid camera Polaroid Land camera | a camera that develops and produces a positive print within seconds |
portrait camera | a camera with a portrait lens |
reflex camera | camera that allows the photographer to view and focus the exact scene being photographed |
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 |
Schmidt telescope Schmidt camera | reflecting telescope that has plate that corrects for aberration so a wide area of sky can be photographed |
soap film | a film left on objects after they have been washed in soap |
sound camera | a movie camera that records sounds in synchrony with the visual images |
sound film | motion-picture film with sound effects and dialogue recorded on it |
television camera tv camera camera | television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam |
Xay film | photographic film used to make Xay pictures |
camera angle | the point of view of a camera |
narrow margin narrowness slimness | a small margin, the president was not humbled by his narrow margin of victory, the landslide he had in the electoral college obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just % of the popular vote |
narrow-mindedness narrowness | an inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior |
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 |
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 |