filmmaking

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filmmaking

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From film + making.

noun filmmakings · film making

  1. uncountable, usually The activity of preparing edited video works, formerly principally films, whether for entertainment or other purposes. Network Rail and some of the train operating companies also make films about the railway for internal or external showing. While many are brief, some continue to uphold the standards of professional filmmaking with which the railway has become synonymous, over a period of over a century.
  2. uncountable, usually The manufacture of physical film.

Similar: cinematography, film-craft, moviemaking, the seventh art

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Closest in meaning: cinematography, cinematographic, movies, movie, cinema, theatre, theater, film, drive-in, pure, granville, cinéma, film-making, films, filmgoing, filmcraft

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noun the production of movies

日本語映画制作 eiga seisaku
中文電影製作 /电影制作 diànyǐng zhìzuò
Françaisréalisation (cinématographique), cinéma
DeutschFilmemachen
Русскийкинопроизво́дство kinoproizvódstvo, кино́ kinó

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@misc{filmmaking_2026,
  title = {filmmaking},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/filmmaking},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}