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motion-picture industry


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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
ˈmo•tion ˈpic•ture, n. [countable]
  1. Show Businessa story, incident, or message presented in film.
  2. Show Business motion pictures, [plural] movie (def. 3).

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
motion picture, 
    1. Show Business, Cinemaa sequence of consecutive pictures of objects photographed in motion by a specially designed camera (motion-picture cam′era) and thrown on a screen by a projector (motion-picture projec′tor) in such rapid succession as to give the illusion of natural movement.
    2. Show Businessa play, event, or the like, presented in this form.
    3. Show Businessmotion pictures, the art, technique, or business of producing motion pictures. Also called movie, moving picture. 
    • 1890–95
    motion-picture, adj. 

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