motion picture
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During the initial years of the motion picture, cameras, for example, were “too cumbersome” to capture anything but a “scheduled event,” Mr. Doherty writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
What we’re likely to be left with is an adaptation that hits all of the beats of the hundreds of motion picture takes on the story with all of their charms and idiosyncrasies smoothed away.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
If approved, the combined titan would control nearly a third of the US theatrical motion picture market and basic cable programming.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
To display his photographs in rapid succession, Muybridge invented a device that birthed the motion picture.
From Slate ● May 25, 2026
In Mecca, too, I had played back for myself the twelve years I had spent with Elijah Muhammad as if it were a motion picture.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
