How to Use celluloid in a Sentence

celluloid

noun
  • But right now, the state’s boom has more to do with celluloid.
    — Carole Horst, Variety, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Our brains don’t use celluloid with an optic sound track attached to it.
    — Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2012
  • And that is part of the draw of this unabashed trifle of celluloid goofiness.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Give me the 24 frames per second of celluloid from my childhood.
    — Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The movie carries four miles of celluloid film, which weighs a whopping 259 pounds.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 11 Dec. 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
  • So did the use of celluloid help create some of the story’s inherent pressure?
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2024
  • But hey, what's a list of disaster movies without at least one disaster on celluloid?
    — Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 3 July 2025
  • Some of these achingly beautiful images look like paintings come to life briefly on celluloid.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Our bar has that elusive ingredient to get the celluloid jam going.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 12 May 2023
  • And glass was a hassle, given its fragility, whereas celluloid was strong yet lightweight.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Oct. 2022
  • On celluloid, it had been masked by the traditional mid-Atlantic twang.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 23 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • What lay ahead was possibility — and that is a thrilling thing to witness preserved on celluloid.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 30 June 2022
  • She is shown whirring through the reels, cutting out celluloid strips of scenes, and placing them on a light box to figure out how to rearrange them.
    — The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
  • And there’s a demon that may be emerging from celluloid and Reddit pages to possess people.
    — Neil McRobert, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Eastman Kodak agreed not to sell its new celluloid film to filmmakers outside the trust.
    — Nat Segnit, Harper's Magazine, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Their stories, and their essence, live within these pixels the way the Holocaust was captured on celluloid.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • And how much could conductor Richard Kaufman contribute hemmed in by the pace of celluloid?
    — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Together, Hurt and Turner have some of the most scorching chemistry ever put on down on celluloid.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2022
  • So, too, was the celluloid for Larraín’s Venice festival contender.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Like most cinematographers of the celluloid school, Sivan misses shooting on film.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 May 2024
  • From celluloid billiard balls, the pair branched out into celluloid dentures, combs, brush handles, piano keys, and knickknacks.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • The breathless discussion about that photograph felt almost like a yearning for the past, when consensus could be built through celluloid.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025

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