an optical instrument in which a strip of film is wound past a lens at a fixed speed so that the frames can be viewed as a continuously moving sequence on a screen or wall
see also projector (sense 2)
Examples of 'film projector' in a sentence
film projector
They're used to maintaining low-tech film projector systems that last for decades.
Globe and Mail (2004)
The film projector was heading for the skip and between us we saved it.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Rain fills a well, a mobile phone rings, a film projector whirrs.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
At first glimpse it might seem innocuous enough: just an old-fashioned film projector with a professional, white-gloved attendant beside it.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
She is pointing at something, and her heavy bracelet, caught in the beam of a film projector, glows like magnesium.
The Times Literary Supplement (2013)
The master bedroom now has a roll-top bath as well as a film projector and screen.