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The name of the film comes from the Latin words "domus clamantium" - meaning "home of the shouting men" - that once adorned the Gillingham club badge.

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  1. noun A thin skin or membrane.
  2. noun A thin, opaque, abnormal coating on the cornea of the eye.
  3. noun A thin covering or coating: a film of dust on the piano.
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  • "I wanted to try to take some of the ideas to the nth degree," said Greene, whose inspiration for the film was a 2005 —  Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories
  • Unfortunately, only a short trailer for the film is available. —  The New Dharma Bums
  • Stop reading here if you haven't seen the film (or play) Doubt and you will eventually see it. synopsis for the film here; basically the film is about a show down between an "old school", —  blueollie
  • This film is the fourth installment in the franchise but, thankfully, it brings back the characters from the original film (with a similar name), —  EveryJoe
  • The screenplay for the film is among finalists nominated for the 21st annual USC Libraries Scripter Award. —  Mania News Feed
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  1. Middle English, from Old English filmen; see pel-3 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English fylme, a film, membrane, from Anglo-Saxon fylmen (not *film), a film, a membrane, the prepuce, = OFries. filmene (in comp. once transposed fymel-), the human skin; perhaps diminutive, with formative -m, of Anglo-Saxon fell, English fell, Gothic (Moesogothic) *fill (in comp. and deriv.), a skin: see fell.
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