filmdom

[film-duhm]

film·dom

[film-duhm]
noun
the motion-picture industry.
Also called moviedom, screenland.


Origin:
1910–15; film + -dom
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filmdom

noun
the personnel of the film industry; "a star of stage and screen" 
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