Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A length of film containing a series of photographs, diagrams, or other graphic matter prepared for still projection.
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- noun A length of
film containing individualphotographs ordiagrams intended to be shown in sequence asinstruction or as a visual aid.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Because I have not submitted a final project, my filmstrip is to be the grand finale.
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And when working with longer documents, you can drag your finger along the side of the screen to scroll through an otherwise-invisible virtual "filmstrip" navigation tool.
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To people of a certain age, the term "filmstrip" conjures memories of boring classroom slideshows of negligible educational value, its recorded narration punctuated by obnoxious beeps to signal the half-awake substitute teacher to click the button which advanced to the next image.
PC World 2009
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Besides, I got Marla back a few years later in Mr. Byrd's class, when we were watching a filmstrip and I leaned over to her and said “Focus spelled backward is suck-off.”
Mud Craig Lancaster 2011
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Jennifer West: This exhibition brings together four new films made over the spring and summer of 2011 and related drawings, objects and filmstrip photographs and an accordion style fold-out zine booklet.
Yasmine Mohseni: Beyond the White Cube: Artist Jennifer West on What Happens When Jaws Listens to Heavy Metal Yasmine Mohseni 2011
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The company istrying to bring back the old-fashioned photo booth filmstrip for the social networking crowd.
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Jennifer West: This exhibition brings together four new films made over the spring and summer of 2011 and related drawings, objects and filmstrip photographs and an accordion style fold-out zine booklet.
Yasmine Mohseni: Beyond the White Cube: Artist Jennifer West on What Happens When Jaws Listens to Heavy Metal Yasmine Mohseni 2011
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There is a scrollable filmstrip on the right that lets you browse and choose Vermeer's paintings or you can flick sideways through them, one to a page.
Jane Chafin: Art Authority: An Amazing iPad App for Art Lovers Jane Chafin 2011
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Jennifer West: This exhibition brings together four new films made over the spring and summer of 2011 and related drawings, objects and filmstrip photographs and an accordion style fold-out zine booklet.
Yasmine Mohseni: Beyond the White Cube: Artist Jennifer West on What Happens When Jaws Listens to Heavy Metal Yasmine Mohseni 2011
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Jennifer West: This exhibition brings together four new films made over the spring and summer of 2011 and related drawings, objects and filmstrip photographs and an accordion style fold-out zine booklet.
Yasmine Mohseni: Beyond the White Cube: Artist Jennifer West on What Happens When Jaws Listens to Heavy Metal Yasmine Mohseni 2011
treeseed commented on the word filmstrip
Filmstrips were a common form of instructional multimedia used by instructors in both primary school and secondary (K-12). They were popular because they were simultaneously an easy-to-use and inexpensive way for an instructor to enhance and invigorate their curriculum by offering students and opportunity to learn by watching and listening in addition to reading.
The filmstrip itself was a spool - a strip - of 35 mm positive film with usually 30-50 images arranged sequentially would have a duration of between 10-20 min. The instructor would turn on a film projector that would show the first frame of the filmstrip. The instructor would, then, turn on a 33 RPM record or cassette tape, containing the audio material for the filmstrip (including narration). At the appropriate point a tone would sound, signalling the instructor to advance to the next frame.
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VCRs made filmstrips, for the most part, obsolete.
February 4, 2008