How to Use celluloid in a Sentence

celluloid

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • These early scenes set in the 1970s are shot with warm, shadowy interiors, replicating the celluloid look of period films.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 May 2024
  • Transpose your history-making, millions-grossing summer tour into celluloid and watch the seats fill up all over again.
    Chris Richards, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
  • 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, 25 May 2023
  • That, after 18 months of living through screens, the boundaries between fashion and celluloid fantasy had finally collapsed, split down the seams.
    Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Like most cinematographers of the celluloid school, Sivan misses shooting on film.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 May 2024

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