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film making

film making is the alternative spelling of filmmaking.

Meaning of filmmaking

Noun

filmmaking (usually uncountable, plural filmmakings)

  1. (usually) The activity of preparing edited video works, formerly principally films, whether for entertainment or other purposes.
    • Network Rail and some of the train operating companies also make films about the railway for internal or external showing. While many are brief, some continue to uphold the standards of professional filmmaking with which the railway has become synonymous, over a period of over a century.2025 December 24, Tim Dunn, “Railways and film: the perfect match”, in RAIL, number 1051, page 55
  2. (usually) The manufacture of physical film.

Questions about film making

What is film making the alternative spelling of?
Film making is the alternative spelling of filmmaking.

Words near film making in the dictionary

  1. film industry
  2. film libraries
  3. film library
  4. film maker
  5. film makers
  6. film making
  7. Film Nagar
  8. film noir
  9. film noirs
  10. film out
  11. film projector

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Adapted from Wiktionary: film making (page history and authors); filmmaking (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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