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Picture show   /pˈɪktʃər ʃoʊ/   Listen
Picture show

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, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture.  "The film was shot on location"






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"Picture show" Quotes from Famous Books



... the right spot!" exclaimed Tom gratefully, as he finished what was set before him. "What do you say to a moving picture show? It will pass the time until the last train gets in. Then for some fun to-night, if Jack and Bert ...
— Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck • Allen Chapman

... hour of opening a queue of soldiers would assemble. There was no pushing or scrambling for tickets. The Australian good-humouredly submitted to the queue system, and patiently waited his turn. Mr. Frank Beaurepeare, of swimming fame, successfully managed the picture show, and eventually got together a few vocalists and comedians, who were organized into a pierrot group. These men were relieved from other duties during the comparatively quiet periods. Eventually a couple of talented Tommies were added to the group, ...
— Over the Top With the Third Australian Division • G. P. Cuttriss

... way to bed, the father imagined the hero in the charming company of some aristocratic lady. None but a feminine celebrity was worthy of him; his paternal pride could accept nothing less. . . . And it never occurred to him that Julio might be with Argensola in a music-hall or in a moving-picture show, enjoying the simple and monotonous diversions of a Paris sobered by war, with the homely tastes of a sub-lieutenant whose amorous conquests were no more than the renewal of some ...
— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez



Words linked to "Picture show" :   show, musical comedy, home movie, 3D, cinema verite, shoot-'em-up, synchronise, slow motion, production, collage film, sequence, videotape, product, silent picture, docudrama, film noir, silents, reshoot, credit, caption, 3-D, synchronize, shoot, documentary, feature, infotainment, subtitle, coming attraction, shot, moving picture, talking picture, credits, talkie, telefilm, musical, feature film, three-d, rough cut, tape, picture, scene, skin flick, episode, silent movie, dub, take, short subject, final cut, documentary film, musical theater



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