🎥

🎥 U+1F3A5, 🎥 MOVIE CAMERA ← 🎤 [U+1F3A4] Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 🎦 → [U+1F3A6]

Translingual

Description

A black movie camera with mounted reels of film.

Symbol

🎥

1. (figuratively) Movies; cinema.
   • 2018 May 25, Michael Tsingo, Cool Social Media For Young People: A Complete Guide to Social Media Duties, Decisions & Skills‎^[1], page 51:

     For example, music 🎼, theatre/films, 🎥🎦, sports 🏀⚽ etc.

2. (cartography) Synonym of 🎞 (“Indicates a movie theatre.”)
   • 2024 May 11, Apple Maps:

     [This web mapping service denotes movie theatre establishments with a white 🎥 on a pink background.]

Usage notes

The use of a film camera to represent a movie theatre is a metonym.

Further reading

• “movie camera emoji”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Presentations of 🎥︎

Text style	Emoji style
🎥︎	🎥️
Note: Character's appearance may be different on each system. Text style is forced with ︎ and emoji style with ️