short term 12 is a film
 before celluloid the stroboscopic animation principle was introduced in 1833 with the stroboscopic disc better known as the phnakisticope and later applied in the zoetrope since 1866 to 2023 the flip book since 1868 to 2023 and the praxinoscope since 1877 to 2023 before it became the basic principle for cinematography
 in british english a film showing happens at a cinema never a theatre which is a different medium and place altogether