In the opening sequence, a pair of female hands struggle to push apart two strips of celluloid film to emerge in the center.

The Photographophone could record and reproduce speech and music through a celluloid film.

Hollywood is saying goodbye to celluloid film which has been used for 120 years in cinemas around the world.

It seems strange, then, that the vast majority of theatrical motion pictures are shot and distributed on celluloid film, just like they were more than a century ago.

Many filmmakers are convinced that celluloid film is still far superior to digital videotape in tone, texture, color and the capacity to resolve detail and complex patterns.

This is why the printed book is doomed to go the way of the vinyl record and the celluloid film.

The film ends with still shots of various crewmen "melting" as if the celluloid film were burning as Bedford and her crew are vaporized.

It was apparently capable of taking up to ten photographs per second using perforated celluloid film.

They went on to improvise a soundtrack for a mesmerizing video sequence showing the history of the moving image, from 18th- and 19th-century picture toys to the first celluloid films.