flash film
n.— «It’s a nearly precise replication of that game, even down to the exploding police car.…Also, the soundtrack of these two flash films, as they’re called, that Weise prepared to basically let people know what he was going to do, have sound tracks of videogames on them.» —“Web postings hold clues to Weise’s actions” by Lorna Benson Minnesota Public Radio Mar. 24, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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