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moviemaker

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Etymology

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From movie +‎ maker.

Noun

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moviemaker (plural moviemakers)

  1. A person who makes movies as a profession; a cinematographer.
    • 2007 May 6, Charles Mcgrath, “A Prince of Pulp, Legit at Last”, in The New York Times[1]:
      Part of why Mr. Dick’s work appeals so much to moviemakers is his pulpish sensibility.
    • 2010, Maaret Koskinen, Ingmar Bergman's The Silence, →ISBN:
      The outrage that greeted The Silence—howls of bishops, scissorings of censors, even feces-smeared toilet paper sent to the director—denoted public horror at a morally serious moviemaker surrendering (it seemed) []

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