filmmaking

noun — 2 senses

filmmaking

noun

Etymology From film + making.

1

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.2025 December 24, Tim Dunn, “Railways and film: the perfect match”, in RAIL, number 1051, page 55:
2

Usually The manufacture of physical film.

Synonyms
cinematography, film-craft, moviemaking, the seventh art
Related terms
filmmaker

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