Celluloid vs. Film: What's the Difference?

Celluloid and Film Definitions
Celluloid
A colorless flammable material made from nitrocellulose and camphor and used to make photographic film.
Film
A thin skin or membrane.
Celluloid
Motion-picture film
"a strange, anachronistic sight.
Film
A thin, opaque, abnormal coating on the cornea of the eye.
Celluloid
The cinema; motion pictures
"There are no heroes but in celluloid" (Charles Langbridge Morgan).
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Film
A thin covering or coating
A film of dust on the piano.
Celluloid
Made of or using a material made from nitrocellulose and camphor.
Film
A thin, flexible, transparent sheet, as of plastic, used in wrapping or packaging.
Celluloid
Of or portrayed on film or in motion pictures.
Film
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.
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Celluloid
Artificial; synthetic
A novel with flat, celluloid characters.
Film
A thin sheet or strip of developed photographic negatives or transparencies.
Celluloid
Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic film.
Film
A movie, especially one recorded on film.
Celluloid
The genre of cinema; film.
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Film
The presentation of such a work.
Celluloid
(obsolete) An item, such as a jacket, made from celluloid.
Film
A long, narrative movie.
Celluloid
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.
Film
Movies collectively, especially when considered as an art form.
Celluloid
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
Film
To cover with or as if with a film.
Celluloid
A medium that disseminates moving pictures;
Theater pieces transferred to celluloid
This story would be good cinema
Film coverage of sporting events
Film
To record on film or video using a movie camera
Film a rocket launch.
Film a scene from a ballet.
Celluloid
Artificial as if portrayed in a film;
A novel with flat celluloid characters
Film
To become coated or obscured with or as if with a film
The window filmed over with moisture.
Film
To make or shoot scenes for a movie.
Film
A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
A clear plastic film for wrapping food
Film
(photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
Film
A movie.
Film
Cinema; movies as a group.
Film
A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
Film
(ambitransitive) To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.
A Hollywood studio was filming on location in NYC.
I tried to film the UFO as it passed overhead.
Film
(ambitransitive) To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
Film
(transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.
Film
A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.
Film
Hence, any thin layer covering a surface.
Film
A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.
Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.
Film
The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the sensitive salts of photographic plates.
Film
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.
Film
A motion picture.
Film
The art of making motion pictures; - used mostly in the phrase the film.
Film
A thin transparent sheet of plastic, used for wrapping objects; as, polyethylene film.
Film
To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.
Film
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.
Film
A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement;
They went to a movie every Saturday night
The film was shot on location
Film
A medium that disseminates moving pictures;
Theater pieces transferred to celluloid
This story would be good cinema
Film coverage of sporting events
Film
A thin coating or layer;
The table was covered with a film of dust
Film
A thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things
Film
Photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies
Film
Make a film or photograph of something;
Take a scene
Shoot a movie
Film
Record in film;
The coronation was filmed