as in movie
a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track
in the 20th century moving pictures became an important form of artistic expression
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Recent Examples of moving picture
Clips not only conjure these same vivid memories, but also bring them to life in moving pictures.
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Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
The story is deceptively simple, but the way the animators create moving pictures to mimic medieval-style stained glass is singular.
—Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 24 July 2024
Throughout all of his work, perhaps most memorably in the warped noir of his television series Twin Peaks, Lynch steered composers to create music as inexplicably haunting as his moving pictures.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 17 Jan. 2025
He himself is represented in moving pictures as a conductor.
—Cuneyt Dil, Axios, 6 Sep. 2024
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Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
The story is deceptively simple, but the way the animators create moving pictures to mimic medieval-style stained glass is singular.
—Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 24 July 2024
Throughout all of his work, perhaps most memorably in the warped noir of his television series Twin Peaks, Lynch steered composers to create music as inexplicably haunting as his moving pictures.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 17 Jan. 2025
He himself is represented in moving pictures as a conductor.
—Cuneyt Dil, Axios, 6 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for moving picture
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The actress, who had shaved her head in 2024 for a movie role, managed to keep her lack of hair hidden until the awards show.—
Brittany Talarico,
People.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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What might work in a fantasy show, or a campy horror movie, comes off as weirdly goofy here.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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The Eastman School of Music and the University of Rochester will honor the cinematic legacy of George Eastman, who founded the school as well as the Eastman Kodak Company — and is the father of motion picture film.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2025
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The motion picture industry also worked diligently to find common ground that moves us forward while preserving first amendment, economic and individual interests.—
Mitch Glazier,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Apr. 2025
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Cheshire hopes the film, which was directed by Gina LeVay and screened April 7 as part of the ReelAbilities NY Film Festival, inspires audiences from any walk of life.—
Jen Reeder,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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The actor continued to film projects in Austin, starring in the 2005 Robert Rodriguez film Sin City as the villainous character Stuka.—
Kat Stinson,
EW.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Whether a film is a documentary or a fictional drama, all modern cinema is in a sense docu-fictional, because most viewers know that a documentary is carefully crafted to yield a narrative and that the making of a fictional film is often as good a story as the one in the script.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2025
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The episode calls to mind a similar controversy from more than 30 years ago involving PBS and POV, when a documentary short called Stop the Church was abruptly dropped from the network’s programming two weeks before its scheduled broadcast in the summer of 1991.—
Daniel Engber,
The Atlantic,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Moving picture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moving%20picture. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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