How to Use celluloid in a Sentence

celluloid

noun

• Max talks about the fact that 90 percent of cinema history still exists only in celluloid form, even though almost nobody screens 35-mm.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2024
• Nonetheless, Silverstone sets the celluloid on fire as the sinister, scheming teen, giving a performance that shows the meaning of star power.
  — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
• But Will Reeve only knew that side of his dad − whose four star turns as Superman arguably ignited our big-screen love affair with superheroes − on celluloid.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2024
• But right now, the state’s boom has more to do with celluloid.
  — Carole Horst, Variety, 29 Nov. 2021
• So just the idea alone of putting a musical on celluloid was, like, heart-stopping to me.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2021
• Our brains don’t use celluloid with an optic sound track attached to it.
  — Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2012
• Black-and-white celluloid film has thicker emulsion, and running it through an Imax camera could have scratched the footage.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2024
• Editing was to take place almost in real time, as a video rough cut that could then be applied to the celluloid version.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2024
• These days, there is a variety of pen finishes from which to choose: resins, metals, celluloid, wood and more.
  — Nancy Olson, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
• And how much could conductor Richard Kaufman contribute hemmed in by the pace of celluloid?
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• The days of shooting on celluloid or videotape, stored on shelves or in vaults, are long gone, with disks and clouds dominating the storage landscape.
  — Ashley Lan, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2022
• Eastman Kodak agreed not to sell its new celluloid film to filmmakers outside the trust.
  — Nat Segnit, Harper's Magazine, 4 Mar. 2022
• There is much more of the brilliance, the density and the atmosphere that was hidden behind the layers of the celluloid negative for so many years.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Sep. 2023
• Around the turn of the century, a projector and screen were brought in so silent films — Charlie Chaplin flicks and the like, on celluloid — could be screened on Saturday nights.
  — Cornelia Channing, Curbed, 15 May 2021
• Of course, a culture is so much more than its celluloid depictions, and Seoul defies many K-drama tropes.
  — Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Feb. 2023
• On celluloid, it had been masked by the traditional mid-Atlantic twang.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 23 Nov. 2023
• The movie has plenty of ’em, photographed on honest-to-goodness celluloid—one of Chung’s smartest decisions.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 July 2024
• Lensed on celluloid in big-sky Montana, the old-fashioned picture will win the hearts of some viewers simply by existing.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2017
• Together, Hurt and Turner have some of the most scorching chemistry ever put on down on celluloid.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2022
• What lay ahead was possibility — and that is a thrilling thing to witness preserved on celluloid.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 30 June 2022
• Our bar has that elusive ingredient to get the celluloid jam going.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 12 May 2023
• Thursday’s packed house saluted this Beethoven of celluloid, a spry 86-year-old, with a standing ovation before he had conducted a note.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• And glass was a hassle, given its fragility, whereas celluloid was strong yet lightweight.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Oct. 2022
• So, too, was the celluloid for Larraín’s Venice festival contender.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 1 Sep. 2024
• Film buffs regularly rage against the uncanny clarity of CGI, mourning the loss of celluloid’s glow and grit.
  — Washington Post, 10 July 2021
• All of us make mistakes in our 20s, but few of us have those mistakes forever preserved on celluloid for everyone to look at decades later.
  — Carl Kurlander, Deadline, 18 June 2024
• During the shows, the 700 feet of tattered celluloid often broke or completely unraveled, but Sam quickly learned how to repair the film and stay on schedule.
  — Chris Yogerst, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2023
• But film, especially black-and-white celluloid, requires a kind of light that modern LED lights, which are lightweight and easy to manipulate, do not emit.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Dec. 2023
• Herewith, a roundup of eight of the most outré musicals ever committed to celluloid. Donkey Skin (1970), dir.
  — Marley Mariu, Vogue, 8 July 2021
• There’s an emphasis on celluloid, with the school uniquely offering thousands in grants for senior thesis films shot on 16mm.
  — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024