motion pictures
电影
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- : Movies. a sequence of consecutive still images photographed in a series by a specially designed camera and thrown on a screen by a projector in such rapid succession as to give the illusion of natural movement: Jean Cocteau produced some of the most innovative motion pictures of the postwar era.such a video sequence recorded and played in other media formats, as VHS or digital video: Critics have given mixed reviews to the new trend of feature-length motion pictures shot on smartphones.
- : a story, event, or the like, presented in this form: The motion picture is adapted from the novel of the same name.
- : motion pictures, the art, technique, or business of producing motion pictures: The Academy honors achievement in motion pictures every year at the Oscars.
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The FBI’s 1954 assessment of Disney was that he was reliable, cooperative, and “extremely prominent in the motion picture industry,” and that year he became an approved FBI contact for the bureau’s “Special Agent in Charge” in Los Angeles.
The oldest examples of products appearing in films date all the way back to the invention of motion pictures, when the Lever Brothers’ Sunlight Soap appeared in the Lumiere films in Europe in 1896.
But, as covered in the OZY history podcast Flashback, Le Prince vanished on that train … and motion picture history left the station without him.
Ray-tracing has been the big story in PC gaming over the past year or so—before, the tech was typically only for the motion picture industry to render high-quality digital effects, but now it’s quickly becoming the standard in terms of video games.
I look at games as being in a similar positions as motion pictures were in the beginning of the 20th century.
I wonder what that lady is doing now, and if she knows what she set in motion with Archer?
The same picture emerges from middle class men in the U.S., Canada, and the Nordic countries.
That was accomplished by cops such as the one whose picture was clutched so tightly by his widow on Sunday.
There is just no way of selling this picture with an innocent defense like, “she just asked for a snap.”
I noticed a picture of her daughter, who was my classmate, and out of curiosity visited her page.
She looked from the picture to her daughter, with a frightful glare, in their before mild aspect.
Each picture bore a label, giving a true description of the once-honoured gem.