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Meanings of motion-picture camera in English

Portuguese
câmara
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A camera that takes a sequence of photographs that can give the illusion of motion when viewed in rapid succession.

        câmara
        Usage of motion-picture camera in English
        1
        Most important of all, we had brought a motion-picture camera.
        Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
        2
        Next stop, an Elko Camera Store, where they "bought" an elaborate motion-picture camera.
        In Cold Blood
        3
        The motion-picture camera was filled with water, mud and sand; and the other cameras fared likewise.
        Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
        4
        Was the man mad, to stand there publicly before the merciless, revealing eye of a motion-picture camera?
        Jean of the Lazy A
        5
        This, however, was finally accomplished, and in the summer of 1889 the first modern motion-picture camera was made.
        Edison: His Life and Inventions
        6
        By now the light was not quite so strong as I would have liked it for the sake of my motion-picture camera.
        Ghosts
        7
        The eight guards, each of whom carried a brown leather box, like a motion-picture camera, took up unobtrusive positions near at hand.
        The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix
        8
        The next day found Emery and me at work on the boats, while Jimmy was stationed on the shore with the motion-picture camera.
        Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
        9
        I went over and was taken to a hotel room with a small motion-picture camera on a tripod in the corner of the room.
        Teaching the pig to dance: a memoir
        10
        Telescopes, spectroscopes, motion-picture cameras, and everything else one could think of were lined up ready for action.
        The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
        11
        The film patrol operates a battery of motion-picture cameras equipped with telephoto lenses & set up on high towers around the race track.
        The new yorker
        Translations for motion-picture camera
        Portuguese
        câmaracâmera