moving pictures
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To mention the most popular moan, the silver screen has been losing its monopoly on displaying moving pictures since the arrival of TV in the 1940s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025
He was among the first openly gay filmmakers and a pioneer in using soundtracks as counterpoints to moving pictures.
From Seattle Times • May 24, 2023
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 • Aug. 11, 2022
In 1929, just as moving pictures were learning to talk, a vivacious teenager named Nina Mae McKinney helped make them sing.
From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2021
It seemed to us, watching the moving pictures, that the doctors did a rapid, business-like job of a complicated abdominal operation.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
