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Yours truly is inspired by people after a film (9)

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I believe the answer is:

animation

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'film' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how one could define the other.

'yours truly is inspired by people after a' is the wordplay.
'yours truly is' becomes 'I'm'.
'inspired by' is an insertion indicator (some letters breathed in or 'inspired' by others).
'people' becomes 'nation'.
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'im' going within 'nation' is 'nimation'.
'nimation' put after 'a' is 'ANIMATION'.

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(Other definitions for animation that I've seen before include "Liveliness and vigour" , "Making of cartoons" , "Art of cartoon making" , "(State of) being full of life" , "Cartoon technique" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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