Objects · Emoji 0.6
🎥Movie Camera Emoji
Generally, 🎥 means “movie.” People use it to quickly reference films, documentaries, or anything that feels like watching a movie.
The 🎥 emoji is a movie camera.
- Unicode
- U+1F3A5
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :movie_
camera: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🎥 Movie Camera emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as film emoji, record emoji, film camera emoji.
02 — Platforms
Movie Camera emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F3A5 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your movie camera looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Movie Camera emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :movie_camera:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F3A5.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🎥 Movie Camera emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Movie Camera emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the movie camera as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Movie Camera emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around movie camera for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🎥 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Apps
What 🎥 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
10 — Difference
🎥 vs 📷 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Movie Camera
Code: U+1F3A5 · added 2010
Shortcode: :movie_camera:
Generally, 🎥 means “movie.”
Unicode name: Camera
Code: U+1F4F7 · added 2010
Shortcode: :camera:
Generally, when someone sends you the 📷 emoji, they're sharing a photo they took with you or referencing a picture they want to show.
11 — History
Where the 🎥 Movie Camera emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F3A5 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🎥 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E677, KDDI au E517, SoftBank E03D.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Movie Camera was approved as U+1F3A5 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🎥 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ