A wheel equipped with projections along its rim that are used to engage with the links of a chain, the perforations along the edge of a strip of…

Cinematography. A container holding a reel of cinematographic film, designed to attach to a film projector or (later esp.) camera, and used both to…

technical. The mechanism in a cinematographic camera or projector that holds each frame momentarily behind the lens.

transferred. A mechanical or other contrivance resembling a claw; e.g. a curved iron with sharpened extremity for grappling or tearing; the back part…

Cinematography. The device or spool for gathering up film after exposure in a projector or camera.

Film. A mechanism which moves film past the aperture of a camera, projector, etc. Also: the rate at which this movement takes place.

a mounting fitted to the front of a camera and carrying several lenses, any of which can be brought into use by rotating the mounting.

Cinematography and Television. = lens turret n. at lens, n. compounds 2.

an anamorphic lens attachment (cf. anamorphic, adj. 1b).