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Hard film and cinema word search

Twenty-eight words from both sides of the camera, the clapperboard and the red carpet among them, in an eighteen by eighteen grid. Like a good flashback, some of them run backwards, and others cut across on the diagonal.

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  • Animation
  • Art house
  • Black and white
  • Blockbuster
  • Box office
  • Cinematographer
  • Clapperboard
  • Close-up
  • Documentary
  • Editing
  • End credits
  • Film festival
  • Film reel
  • Flashback
  • Location
  • Make-up
  • Matinee
  • Producer
  • Projector
  • Red carpet
  • Review
  • Science fiction
  • Screenplay
  • Sequel
  • Silent film
  • Soundtrack
  • Storyboard
  • Stuntman

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Film and cinema, extra hard

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Find these words

  • Animation
  • Art house
  • Black and white
  • Blockbuster
  • Box office
  • Cinematographer
  • Clapperboard
  • Close-up
  • Documentary
  • Editing
  • End credits
  • Film festival
  • Film reel
  • Flashback
  • Location
  • Make-up
  • Matinee
  • Producer
  • Projector
  • Red carpet
  • Review
  • Science fiction
  • Screenplay
  • Sequel
  • Silent film
  • Soundtrack
  • Storyboard
  • Stuntman

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Film and cinema, extra hard

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About this word search

The National Film Board of Canada is famous for its Animation and Documentary work, and Norman McLaren's experiments there won an Academy Award for his short film Neighbours. Matinee and Box office belong to an older ritual of afternoon screenings and paper tickets.

Words cross this large sheet in every direction, reversed ones too. CINEMATOGRAPHER is the longest run, and BLACKANDWHITE and SCIENCEFICTION appear without their spaces. Sequel has a Q that stands out, while Review is easy to overlook.

A film club can follow the puzzle with a screening of a silent film.

Ways to use this word search

  • With your coffee

    Print a sheet for a quiet moment at the kitchen table or in your armchair. Start with the regular version and save the hard one for when you really have time for it.

  • On the go

    Slip a few printed sheets into your bag for the train, a waiting room or a weekend away. A pen is all you need, no screen required.

  • Puzzle together

    Bring the sheet to your book club, a night in with friends or a visit to your parents and see who finds every word first. Or play online and find out who is fastest.

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The same theme also exists in Spanish, French, German and Italian, each with its own word list in that language. Handy if you are learning a language: you already know the topic, now just the words.

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