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Motion picture

noun

1.

A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement. Synonyms: film, flick, motion-picture show, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture, picture show. "The film was shot on location"

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"Motion picture" Quotes from Famous Books

... her kitchen and up the back stairs. Norah, if the children had stopped long enough to hear, would have told them that she had hurried home to start supper after seeing the "episode" of the serial picture she was interested in at the motion picture house. ...

— Four Little Blossoms and Their Winter Fun • Mabel C. Hawley

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... wings of desperate excitement, quite resolved to fan this spark of romance, no matter how big the blaze or who was burned. At the time he considered that his thoughts were unselfishly of her; in a later perspective he knew that she had meant no more than the white screen in a motion picture: it ...

— Flappers and Philosophers • F. Scott Fitzgerald

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