motion pictures
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Yet her fame derives not from directing, but rather from acting in more than 200 motion pictures from the mid-1920s until shortly before her death, at age 67, in 1977.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
The NFL is going Hollywood, looking to expand its audience with theatrical motion pictures and its first scripted streaming series.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026
In the 100 years since, the glamorous building style - evocative of neon-lit jazz bars and the golden age of big motion pictures - rapidly spread around the world.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025
The moments pay homage to one of history’s first motion pictures, a Lumière film of employees leaving a factory.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2024
I had seen photographs in the papers every day and motion pictures on the television screen.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
