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Movie   /mˈuvi/   Listen
Movie

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



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"Movie" Quotes from Famous Books



... were doing back in 1938 when the Martians landed in New Jersey, at the time Orson Welles presented a radio version of H. G. Wells' 'War of the Worlds'. Or when the 'Flying Saucer' craze first started. Or when Fantafilm put on their big publicity stunt for the improved 3-D movie, 'The Outsiders', and people saw the aliens over Broadway and heard them address the ...
— The Fourth Invasion • Henry Josephs

... a sad hole! You are going to go in for brain athletics, Sam Crittenden for farmer heroics, and the only movie that has peeped into town is going to be closed because it ran a Latin Quarter film the afternoon the ladies stopped in from the United Charities sewing circle, expecting a Cuban missionary thriller. I might as well have my left foot amputated, ...
— Over Paradise Ridge - A Romance • Maria Thompson Daviess

... Mayflower. At the Alhambra in Bucarest next evening, after the cosmopolite artistes had done then-perfunctory turns and returned to their street clothes and the audience, to begin the more serious business of the evening, the movie man in the gallery threw on the screen—no, not some military hero nor the beautiful Queen whose photograph you will remember, but the head of the Roman Emperor Trajan! And the listless crowd, drowsing ...
— Antwerp to Gallipoli - A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them • Arthur Ruhl

... heard a boy quoting Shakespeare the other day. He was coming out of a movie with two other boys, just as I was passing. They had probably been in there an hour or more, for they seemed glad to get out in the fresh air. But the boy's exclamation was what caught my ...
— "Say Fellows—" - Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues • Wade C. Smith

... thought to himself. "Was ever a man in such a hellish position, except in melodrama? And what a movie that would have made! And what a shot that girl proved herself to be! Certainly she could have killed me there at Brookhollow! She could have riddled me before I ducked, even with that nickel-plated affair about which I was ass enough to ...
— The Dark Star • Robert W. Chambers



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



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