moving-picture

With new moving-picture technologies on the rise, the Global English word film now refers to stories, fictional or “true,” told in any medium that projects pictures in motion.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

With new moving-picture technologies on the rise, the Global English word film now refers to stories, fictional or “true,” told in any medium that projects pictures in motion.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

While this bankruptcy of the Circling Brothers had been the greatest financial achievement of Harris Collin's life, nevertheless he enjoyed no mean permanent income from his plant, and, in addition, split fees with the owners of his board animals when he sent them to the winter Hippodrome shows, and, more often than not, failed to split any fee at all when he rented the animals to moving-picture companies.

CHAPTER XXIV 2010

I know the waste of superfluous motion without studying a moving-picture record of it, whether it be farm or farmhand, the layout of buildings or the layout of the farmhand's labor.

Chapter 1 2010

That's true, as well, of its consistent focus on the hard business aspects of this story, whose opening chapter, titled "Peepshow Pioneers," covers the pre-Hollywood years, 1899 to 1910, the invention of Edison's moving-picture machine, the penny arcades and other first steps to the movies.

The 7 Ages of Hollywood Dorothy Rabinowitz 2010

We seem to have dropped into an age of entertaining, a breathless going from one sensation to another, whether it be mechanical toys for the five-year-old or moving-picture plays for the sixteen-year-old.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Kids These Days 2010

Photofest Bette Davis, Joan Blondell and Ann Dvorak 'Three On a Match' 1932 In 1915, the Supreme Court decided that free-speech protection did not extend to the morally questionable moving-picture industry.

The Storm Before the Calm Bruce Bennett 2011

Humanity is packed dense in high piles of close-knit homes that lie in layers above gray shops of food and clothes and drink, with here and there a moving-picture show.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

The changes of this theme are continually rung in picture and story, in newspaper heading and moving-picture, in sermon and school book, until, of course, the King can do no wrong,—a White Man is always right and a Black Man has no rights which a white man is bound to respect.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

I was quite disturbed to get your letter of last week telling me that you, Jesse Lasky, Sam Goldfish and lawyer Arthur Friend have formed a company to go into the moving-picture business.

Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010