Meaning & use
Filmstrip
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A strip of film containing a sequence of still images meant to be projected one at a time, often used for educational purposes.
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The teacher rolled out the projector to show a filmstrip about the solar system.
Boxes of old filmstrips still sat in the school's storage closet decades after they fell out of use.
A note on using this word
Filmstrips were a staple of classroom instruction from the 1940s through the 1980s, later replaced by video and digital media.
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