The word "celluloid" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to refer to a type of flammable plastic that was used to make movie film and other objects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. For example, you could say: "The projectionist used a highly flammable celluloid film to show the movie".
Yash Chopra may have been one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of Indian cinema, yet he will always be remembered as his country's king of celluloid romance.
"When I saw the thing pieced together, I thought, 'Well, I'm in a different film.' " He pitched his portrayal of Daffy to the character in the book, he says, not the eventual celluloid version, skewed by big-budget demands and studio imperatives.
Oscar nominee Lancaster just edges out another celluloid Alcatraz inmate, Clint Eastwood's jailbreaker in Escape from Alcatraz.
Otherwise you've just got Take a Break on celluloid.
It has publishing names such as Sports Illustrated, celluloid greats such as "Gone with the Wind" and the Looney Tunes cartoon library, and it makes such television crowd-pullers as "Seinfeld" and "ER".
Many of the films that came out of this brutally efficient celluloid assembly line particularly those involving kung-fu, sword fighting and triads gained cult status around the world.
Yet even as the celluloid Mr Reid warned of a crisis the real Mr Reid was celebrating a peace deal.Two hours earlier, 14 senators—seven from each party—had managed to cobble together an agreement that stopped the Republicans "going nuclear" and banning judicial filibusters.
And it has now triggered a lawsuit over a pilot study of three police departments in Illinois.In traditional police line-ups (as featured in many a celluloid crime drama) investigators show eyewitnesses a group of subjects or a palette of photos and ask whether the criminal they saw is among them.
In the near future, as more films are made digitally, cinemas will bid farewell to celluloid and install new digital projection equipment.Some directors are convinced that the change is for the better and cannot happen fast enough.
As well as technical advances in special effects and the first mass-marketing use of merchandising rights from celluloid (the merchandising of the brand generated three times more revenue than box-office sales) the groundbreaking film also spawned a cult following.
But if a dealer or the police have reason to suspect a piece of scrap might be stolen, then SmartWater's laboratory can tell them who bought the batch of adhesive in question.Selectamark's technology also uses microdots, though instead of celluloid it employs polyester or a nickel-based alloy, depending on the type of adhesive involved.
