Film vs Documentary - What's the difference?
film | documentary |
A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
* Alexander Pope
(photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
A motion picture.
A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
* Shakespeare
To record a motion picture on photographic film
To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
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of, related to, or based on documents.
which serves to document (record and:or illustrate) a subject.
presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.
A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.
As nouns the difference between film and documentary
is that film is a thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity while documentary is a film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.As a verb film
is to record a motion picture on photographic film.As an adjective documentary is
of, related to, or based on documents.film
English
(wikipedia film)Noun
(en noun)- a clear plastic film for wrapping food
- He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.
- Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film .
Synonyms
* (motion picture) movieDerived terms
* filmic * filmmaker * filmmaking * filmography * filmology * filmy * on filmVerb
(en verb)- "A Hollywood studio was filming on-location in NYC."
- It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.