How to Use moving picture in a Sentence
moving picture
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The 1930s saw the rise of the Western genre in this new art form called moving pictures.
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Carol Motsinger,
Cincinnati.com,
11 June 2018
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An outsider to the electronic scene, Lee's film paints a moving picture of the culture.
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Kat Bein,
Billboard,
8 Mar. 2021
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The concept of the cat-and-mouse hunt between spy and supervillain dates all the way back to the earliest days of moving pictures.
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Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
13 Apr. 2020
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Think about the canonical moving pictures of the civil-rights movement.
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Alexis C. Madrigal,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2018
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The brand used to release slide and moving picture projectors under the Pradovit name, according to New Atlas.
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Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
6 Sep. 2022
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Love the way artists experiment with moving pictures and you’ll likely be entranced, and for quite a number of hours; this is a big and time-consuming show.
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Steve Johnson,
chicagotribune.com,
2 July 2018
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And when electronic and performing media came along in the 20th century, artists picked up new tools and toys, from moving pictures to recordable and replayable sound.
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Vince Guerrieri,
Popular Mechanics,
24 June 2019
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By stark contrast, no one these days runs screaming from a movie theater to escape certain ruin from the moving picture of an onrushing choo-choo.
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Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2022
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At the same time that moving pictures were capturing the public's imagination, aviation was doing the same thing.
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Jackson Landers,
Smithsonian,
9 Jan. 2017
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Kali’s daughter Susan has recently come across a new stash of film—as in moving picture film—that is slowly being digitized.
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Nicole Phelps,
Vogue,
16 Sep. 2022
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In the past century technology and business models have helped shape the message in moving pictures—nowhere more so than in television.
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The Economist,
23 Apr. 2020
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This may be an opportunity to get organized for tax season, take in a moving picture, or make time for someone special.
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Ed Silverman,
STAT,
31 Jan. 2020
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For me, that usually means five nights in a tent in Maine in August, with my family, way too many mosquitoes, and absolutely no moving pictures.
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Ellen Gray,
Philly.com,
31 Aug. 2017
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But perhaps none of those books is as tender as this moving picture book about Yamasaki told from the perspective of his granddaughter, Katie Yamasaki.
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Curbed Staff,
Curbed,
8 Nov. 2022
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The 2019 edition will include discussions not only on the future of moving pictures in the streaming era but — in a somewhat existential move — on the future of festivals themselves.
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Alex Ritman,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Sep. 2019
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Pugh has a way of reminding you why a close-up is the single best gift the moving pictures have given us, as well as somehow making her reactions to a lot of melodramatic business seem organic.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
24 Mar. 2023
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Nagel had decided to try his luck in the moving pictures within a few years of graduating from college, and studio executives were sold on his wholesome Midwestern good looks.
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Nancie Clare,
Los Angeles Magazine,
20 Feb. 2018
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An avid magic and optical illusions fan, an undeniable sense of mystery penetrates many of his still and moving picture works.
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Nickole Kerner Bobley,
Houston Chronicle,
15 Apr. 2020
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But as the exhibit and books show, Shya will forever be remembered for his authorship of some of Hong Kong cinema’s most poignant, moving pictures and stars at their most carefree or vulnerable.
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Jing Zhang,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Nov. 2017
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When Edge finally stopped, association president T. Gilbert Pearson informed her that her questions had taken up the time allotted to the showing of a new moving picture, and that lunch was getting cold.
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Melissa Groo,
Smithsonian Magazine,
16 Mar. 2021
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Kidder is said to have been a prominent moving picture theatre musician of Philadelphia, where his parents now reside.
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sandiegouniontribune.com,
28 Feb. 2018
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Today, computerized weather prediction—like moving pictures or flying by plane—is so commonplace that smartphone-users don’t give it a second thought.
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Sarah Witman,
Smithsonian,
16 June 2017
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The Cinematheque Award pays tribute to an extraordinary artist who’s making a significant contribution to the art of the moving picture.
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Pamela McClintock,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Nov. 2022
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When your newspaper has moving pictures and everyday objects sometimes talk to you, then the internet does not seem a particularly exciting place.
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Jason Kehe,
Wired,
11 Dec. 2019
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Both Suttles and Goodman shared bandwidth-conservation advice that, if implemented at scale, could have a bigger effect: Stick to audio instead of video for your conference calls if the meeting doesn’t demand moving pictures.
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Rob Pegoraro,
USA TODAY,
25 Mar. 2020
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Literature has proven a fertile source of complex female roles since the dawn of cinema, with Little Women generating its first feature moving picture adaptation in 1917.
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Marley Marius,
Vogue,
13 July 2018
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The moving picture companies pour thirty million dollars into Los Angeles every year.
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San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Dec. 2021
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The camera converts infrared energy into an electronic signal to create moving pictures.
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New York Times,
13 Dec. 2019
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As America moved into the 20th century, automobiles, airplanes, wax cylinder rolls and moving pictures would capture the public's imagination.
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Jackson Landers,
Smithsonian,
9 Jan. 2017
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Long celebrated for his portrait work, Parks rendered the American working class with thrilling dignity; taking especially moving pictures of African Americans.
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Marley Marius,
Vogue,
1 Mar. 2019
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