Past tense of film, meaning to record moving images using a camera, or to cover with a thin layer or membrane. Originally referred to photographic film but now includes digital recording.
From 'film' (Old English 'filmen' meaning membrane, thin skin) + past tense suffix. The cinematic meaning developed in the 1890s as the technology used thin strips of celluloid 'film' to capture images.
It's fascinating that 'filmed' retains its name from the physical celluloid strips that movies were once captured on, even though most modern filming is digital. The word preserves the memory of cinema's material origins while describing today's entirely digital process.
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