Film n.
1. A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
He from thick films shall purge the visual ray. --Pope.
2. hence, any thin layer covering a surface.
3. A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.
Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film. --Shak.
Celluloid film Photog., a thin flexible sheet of celluloid, coated with a sensitized emulsion of gelatin, and used as a substitute for photographic plates.
Cut film Photog., a celluloid film cut into pieces suitable for use in a camera.