moving picture

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Although you could look at each image separately, it is often more useful to view them sequentially, like a flipbook in which drawings turn into moving pictures.

From New York Times

Ernaux’s narration fills in the gaps, explaining what was really going on in and around all those grainy moving pictures of a smiling mom and her happy-looking kids.

From Los Angeles Times

In the middle of the 20th century, skeptical intellectuals of the left, right and center mistrusted the power that moving pictures could wield over the masses, turning active citizens into passive spectators.

From New York Times

One of cinema’s great wonders is the way a few moving pictures on a flat screen — composed and choreographed just so — can make a viewer’s palms sweat and heart race.

From Los Angeles Times

It was one of the first moving pictures.

From Seattle Times