{
  "id": "film.entertainment",
  "term": "film",
  "sense": "entertainment",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "definition",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a recorded series of visual and audio patterns that are shown together over time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "video.digital",
      "audio.auditory",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "recorded.information",
      "records.document",
      "series.ordered",
      "show.visual",
      "time.dimension",
      "visual.perceptual"
    ],
    "interaction": "audio and video are synchronized and presented in sequence, creating a cohesive sensory experience over time.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "temporal narrative structure",
      "synchronized audiovisual perception",
      "recorded performance illusion"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 1977 release of Star Wars: A New Hope premiered in 40 theaters across the US, combining digital video, audio tracks, and timed reels.",
      "domain": "entertainment"
    },
    {
      "text": "The BBC Domesday Project in 1986 stored video, audio, and images on LaserDiscs to document British life for future playback.",
      "domain": "archival"
    },
    {
      "text": "The first public screening of the Lumière brothers’ 'Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory' occurred in 1895 using projected film reels.",
      "domain": "history"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "movies.entertainment",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "film",
    "filmed",
    "filming",
    "films"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Missing constitutive concepts were omitted from the original record; added based on definitional dependencies. Definition remains accurate and concise."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-film.entertainment"
}