fillum
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]fillum (plural fillums)
- Pronunciation spelling of film.
- 1919, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Pictures”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 167:
- Have you arcted much for the fil-lums?
- 1974, Hameeduddin Mahmood, The Kaleidoscope of Indian Cinema, New Delhi : Affiliated East-West Press:
- Sacking the writer and the director for their ignorance, at the instance of the chamcha, the Gurgaonwa youth becomes the writer-director of the fillum.
- 2019 January 1, Catherine Kirwan, Darkest Truth: She refused to be silenced, Random House, →ISBN:
- 'Mister Gill, I remember seeing your first fillum here in Cork back in 1998 and we all knew then that a star was born. But how hard was it to get that fillum made and do you have any advice for young fillum-makers? I'm sure there load of them here today.' 'Well, I don't know anything about fillums,' Gill said, imitating the man's heavy Cork accent and not getting much of a laugh for a change.