a thin layer or coating

a film of grease on a plate.

a thin sheet of any material

a film of ice.

a thin skin or membrane.

a delicate web of filaments or fine threads.

a thin haze, blur, or mist.

Photography .

a cellulose nitrate or cellulose acetate composition made in thin sheets or strips and coated with a sensitive emulsion for taking photographs.

a strip or roll of this.

the coating of emulsion on such a sheet or strip or on a photographic plate.

Movies .

a strip of transparent material, usually cellulose triacetate, covered with a photographic emulsion and perforated along one or both edges, intended for the recording and reproduction of images.

a similar perforated strip covered with an iron oxide emulsion (magfilm), intended for the recording and reproduction of both images and sound.

motion picture.

Often, films,

motion pictures collectively.

the motion-picture industry, or its productions, operations, etc.

motion pictures, as a genre of art or entertainment

experimental film.

to cover with a film, thin skin, or pellicle

filmed eyes.

Movies .

to photograph with a motion-picture camera.

to reproduce in the form of motion pictures

to film a novel.

to become covered by a film

The water filmed over with ice.

Movies .

to be reproduced in a motion picture, esp. in a specified manner

This story films easily.

to direct, make, or otherwise engage in the production of motion pictures.

noun

blur , brume , cloud , coat , covering , dusting , fabric , foil , fold , gauze , haze , haziness , integument , layer , leaf , membrane , mistiness , nebula , obscuration , opacity , partition , pellicle , scum * , sheet , skin , transparency , veil , web , cinema , dailies , flick * , footage , motion picture , moving picture , photoplay , picture , picture show , rushes , show , silent * , talkie

verb

photograph , put in the can , record , roll , shoot , take , blur , celluloid , cine , cinema , coating , deposit , flick , footage , haze , layer , mist , movie , negative , pellicle , scum , skin , transparency , veil , x-ray