Relationships Related Term:  motion picture n. ~ 1. An early thermoplastic made from cellulose nitrate and camphor used to produce film and objects. - 2. Slang · Motion picture film. Notes:  Celluloid [..]

transparent plastic made from nitro-celluloses and camphor, 1871, trademark name (reg. U.S.), a hybrid coined by U.S. inventor John Wesley Hyatt (1837-1900) from cellulose + Greek-based suffix -oid. U [..]

Originally a trademark of the Celluloid Manufacturing Company of Newark, New Jersey, established in 1871. The term first applied to an early thermoplastic made from cellulose nitrate and melted campho [..]

(n) highly flammable substance made from cellulose nitrate and camphor; used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film; its use has decreased with the development of nonflammable thermoplastics(n) a mediu [..]

Cellulose nitrate was the original transparent material used as a base for film, which was then coated with light-sensitive emulsion.

A marketing name for the first synthetic plastic, celluloid looks like elephant ivory. One of the first uses was in 1876 with billiard ball production. Later, plastics were acceptable unto themselves [..]

Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic film. * '''1894''' June, Antonia Dickson, W. K. L. Dickson, '''', article in '''', Volume 48, I [..]