filmmaking

See also: film making

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Etymology

From film +‎ making.

Noun

filmmaking (usually uncountable, plural filmmakings)

  1. The activity of preparing edited video works, formerly principally films, whether for entertainment or other purposes.
    • 2025 December 24, Tim Dunn, “Railways and film: the perfect match”, in RAIL, number 1051, page 55:
      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. The manufacture of physical film.

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