Celluloid vs. Film: What's the Difference?

A colorless flammable material made from nitrocellulose and camphor and used to make photographic film.

A thin skin or membrane.

Motion-picture film

A thin, opaque, abnormal coating on the cornea of the eye.

The cinema; motion pictures

A thin covering or coating

Made of or using a material made from nitrocellulose and camphor.

A thin, flexible, transparent sheet, as of plastic, used in wrapping or packaging.

Of or portrayed on film or in motion pictures.

A thin sheet or strip of flexible material, such as a cellulose derivative or a thermoplastic resin, coated with a photosensitive emulsion and used to make photographic negatives or transparencies.

Artificial; synthetic

A thin sheet or strip of developed photographic negatives or transparencies.

Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic film.

A movie, especially one recorded on film.

The genre of cinema; film.

The presentation of such a work.

(obsolete) An item, such as a jacket, made from celluloid.

A long, narrative movie.

A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; - originally called xylonite.

Movies collectively, especially when considered as an art form.

Highly flammable substance made from cellulose nitrate and camphor; used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film; its use has decreased with the development of nonflammable thermoplastics

To cover with or as if with a film.

A medium that disseminates moving pictures;

To record on film or video using a movie camera

Artificial as if portrayed in a film;

To become coated or obscured with or as if with a film

To make or shoot scenes for a movie.

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

(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.

(ambitransitive) To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.

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

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

Hence, any thin layer covering a surface.

A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.

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.

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;

A medium that disseminates moving pictures;

A thin coating or layer;

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;

Record in film;