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movie orig. U.S.|ˈmuːvɪ|
Also † movy.
[Abbrev. of moving picture: see -ie, -y6.]
a. = moving picture; also, a moving-picture show; a cinema; pl. (freq. the movies), motion pictures as an industry, an art-form, or a form of entertainment; a cinema or a cinema-show.
1912Survey (N.Y.) 20 Jan. 1628 (heading) ‘Movies’ and the law. 1912J. Sandilands Western Canad. Dict. 30 Movie, a moving picture show. 1913F. A. Talbot Pract. Cinematogr. iii. 22 Taking the ‘movies’ is quite as simple as snap-shot photography with a Kodak. 1913N.Y. Even. Post 10 July 5/7 Guiding the wheel-chair through the entrance gate of the outdoor ‘movie’. 1913Home Chat 27 Sept. 578/1 The comparatively small towns [in America] have installed ‘movies’—as they call them over there—in their schools. 1914M. Carrington Memories i. 69 A night at the ‘movies’. 1916‘B. M. Bower’ Phantom Herd xi. 193 Say, do I get it right that you're in the movies. 1918C. Sandburg Cornhusker 51 There is drama in that point... Griffith would make a movie of it to fetch sobs. 1918G. B. Shaw Pen Portraits (1932) 36 Is an evening with Ibsen as popular as an evening with Mary Pickford at the movies? 1919― Heartbreak House i. 26 You frequent picture palaces... Talk like a man, not like a movy. 1925F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Gatsby (1926) vii. 150 Those big movies around Fiftieth Street are cool. 1929H. G. Wells King who was King i. 15 It was possible for some of us to forget the crude, shallow trade ‘movies’ we had seen. 1938E. Bowen Death of Heart ii. v. 268 Some of the party wished to go to a movie. Ibid. vi. 281 He wanted me to cut off with him somewhere last night, after the movies. 1942Short Guide Gt. Brit. (U.S. War Dept.) 13 The British have theaters and movies (which they call ‘cinemas’) as we do. 1950T. S. Eliot Cocktail Party iii. 148 You must have been living a quiet life! Don't you go to the movies? 1971Mod. Law Rev. XXXIV. 705 There is so much happening in the field of human rights that there is a great temptation to postpone publication until we see how the movie is going to end.
b. attrib. and Comb., as movie actor, movie actress, movie ad, movie advertisement, movie buff, movie business, movie camera, movie cowboy, movie fan, movie film, movie hero, movie industry, movie king, movie-land, movie magazine, movie-maker, movie-making, movie-man, movie medium, movie picture, movie play, movie projector, movie queen, movie scenario, movie script, movie show, movie star, movie studio, movie test, movie theatre; moviegoer, one who goes to the cinema; one who frequently attends film-shows; hence moviegoing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; movie house, a cinema; movie palace, a (palatial) cinema.
1913Writer's Mag, Dec. 264/2 If you want a chance to pay tribute to some ‘movie’ actor get a copy of the Ladies World, and ‘full particulars’. 1935Wodehouse Luck of Bodkins xv. 178 The kid points and says: ‘Look, mamma. Movie actors!’ And the mother says: ‘Hush, dear—you don't know what you may come to some day.’
1924‘J. Sutherland’ Circle of Stars xi. 114 Mountrose is going to marry an American movie-actress. 1949M. Lowry Let. 1 July (1967) 180 My..brother-in-law, who entertains himself..by listening to the chests of movie actresses. 1951M. McLuhan Mech. Bride. (1967) 82/1 In one movie ad the woman says: ‘I killed a man for this kiss.’
1918N. Angell Political Conditions Allied Success p. vii, As the movie advertisement of the war play says: ‘You can't put up a good fight until your blood boils.’ 1973Guardian 30 Mar. 12/6 Imagine the feelings of a movie-buff if he were told he'd have to get along without Bunuel, Bergman, Chabrol, [etc.].
1916‘B. M. Bower’ Phantom Herd v. 71 There's no art for art's sake in the movie business. 1925H. L. Foster Trop. Tramp with Tourists 118 The company's cinema operator had his movie camera set up in one corner. 1934Punch 14 Nov. 536/2 He and another journalist..bought..a couple of small movie-cameras and all the film there was in Australia. 1961T. Henrot Belgium 185 You may bring in..a small movie-camera with fifteen meters of film.
1926A. Huxley Let. 13 May (1969) 269 One mounts a mule and goes off with a movie cowboy down into the gulf. 1941Auden New Year Let. iii. 68 Some Texas where real cowboys seem Lost in a movie-cowboy's dream.
1913Outlook 5 Apr. 784/1 The ‘movie’ fan lays himself open to overtired eye nerves. 1952S. Kauffmann Philanderer (1953) iv. 59 There were seven pulps, ten comic magazines, three movie-fan magazines, three confession magazines.
1922Atlantic Monthly June 775 Half the movie films seem almost to have been made for the flapper. 1959Halas & Manvell Technique Film Animation 11 A movie film exposed at normal speed can..be said to analyse every second of live action in terms of a given number of successive phases of movement.
1923T. Lane What's Wrong with Movies 49 The author's name..means absolutely nothing to the bulk of movie-goers. 1953Time 27 July 76/1 There is..a danger that some impressionable movie-goers, unable to make up their minds which of the stars they prefer, may go quietly hysterical. 1973Sat. Rev. Society (U.S.) Mar. 80/1 Deep Throat has grossed nearly a million dollars from moviegoers.
1938I. Barry tr. Burdèche & Brasillach's Hist. Motion Pict. 68 Further Nick Carter series..taught the public the habit of regular moviegoing. 1946A. Warren in W. S. Knickerbocker 20th Cent. English iii. 312 His conclusions..reassure the parents of movie-going children. 1951‘J. Wyndham’ Day of Triffids ii. 43 The great movie-going public. 1958J. Baldwin in W. King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 284 A lifetime of moviegoing behind her.
1928Manch. Guardian Weekly 5 Oct. 266/4 The movie hero's knack Of dangling from a trembling wire Across a railway track.
1914Automobile Topics XXXIV. 190/1 Selected bits of the picture..are being shown in the local ‘movie houses’. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Dec. 976/1 Sam, ticket-chopper in a movie-house. 1967‘La Meri’ Spanish Dancing (ed. 2) 9 Maria Montero in whose group I danced in vaudeville and the movie houses. 1974Times 19 Jan. 10/1 Local movie houses offering major releases.
1928H. Crane Let. 27 Apr. (1965) 325 ‘Crashing the gate’..seems to be exclusively applied to the movie industry.
1917Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 68 Here we are privileged to behold the interior of a movie king's office.
1914C. L. Hagen in R. Grau Theatre of Science p. xxiv, Is it to be wondered at..that authors, actors, and science await the call to ‘movie’ land? 1928Daily Express 16 Mar. 4/2 There are few people..better qualified to explain the mysteries of movie-land and of the technical side of films. 1929E. Wilson I thought of Daisy ii. 90 It was a movie magazine called Photo-Life. 1955W. Gaddis Recognitions i. v. 180 Movie magazines, simply all sex. 1957N. Frye Anat. Crit. 164 The moviemakers find some difficulty in getting anyone over the age of seventeen into their audiences. 1975Listener 20 Mar. 387 Ingmar Bergman is not everyone's favourite movie maker.
1939F. Scott Fitzgerald Lett. (1964) 415 To be plunged immediately into movie-making. 1973Listener 22 Nov. 716/3 Movie-making depends on movie distributors.
1915Pearson's Mag. Jan. 80 My first action..was to ask a movie-man going home with films, to bring me back a blue serge suit. 1916‘B. M. Bower’ Phantom Herd xix. 309 The movie-man that runs this show for the Convention. 1948Sun (Baltimore) 1 Dec. 17/4 Because the most hotly disputed of the series came unexpectedly the movie men did not have their cameras directed at second base. 1951M. McLuhan Mech. Bride (1967) p. vi/1 A film expert, speaking of the value of the movie medium.
1917Chicago Defender 22 Dec., Watch for our new movie palace. 1936A. Huxley Olive Tree 40 When I was last at Margate a gigantic new movie palace had just been opened. 1955W. Gaddis Recognitions i. vi. 220 The woman with me led me down a long street, and we came to a movie palace. 1966L. Cohen Beautiful Losers (1970) i. 22 Let..no naked flashing breasts lure the dirty laundry of our daily lives into the movie palace.
1916E. V. Lucas Vermilion Box ccxiii. 250 I wish a movie picture could be taken of him. 1917‘W. Wynning’ Princes St. & Other Otago Rhymes 11 A girl one sees in ‘movie’ plays. 1936Chesterton As I was Saying xxxi. 191 The fiction on the film, the partisan version in the movie-play. 1959Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring & Summer 1396/7 Movie Projectors. 1962M. McLuhan Gutenberg Galaxy 124 The reading of print puts the reader in the role of the movie projector.
1927U. Sinclair Oil! xiii. 314 It's cost me eight million dollars to make a movie queen out of this baby.
1917H. Crane Let. 8 Oct. (1965) 10 Mrs. Walton and I are working out movie scenarios. 1964M. McLuhan Understanding Media (1967) i. v. 65 When the movie scenario or picture story was applied to the idea article.
1950M. Lowry Lett. (1967) 2/9 Have written..a detailed movie script. 1973L. Hellman Pentimento (1974) 268 The money I got from the movie script of The Little Foxes.
1913Technical World Mar. 17/1 This novel feeling of amused satisfaction over a ‘movie’ show deepened. 1925A. P. Herbert Laughing Ann 33, I..wish That life was a little like a movie-show. 1974M. Z. Lewin Enemies Within xxv. 107 I'll..tell Janie about the movie shows at the frat.
1919H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill ii. 39 [They saw] how much they were paying their president..quoted beside some movie star's salary. 1937H. G. Wells Brynhild vi. 78 Two other of the applicants had ‘done publicity’ for movie stars. 1973D. Ramsay Deadly Discretion 129 Why do you conceal your beautiful eyes..? You are practising to be a movie star?
1914Munsey's Mag. Jan. 735/2 Then he closed the door and advanced into the ‘movie’ studio. 1926A. Huxley Jesting Pilate 261 Within the movie studio there shone no sun, only the lamps. 1952M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) x. 197 One of Furness's long-tressed Ritas was promised a movie-test.
1915Film Flashes 13 Nov. 1 It's a long lane that has no movie theatre. 1968Michelin Guide N.Y. City 9 Movie Theaters.—Like the theaters, many first-run movie houses are clustered in the Broadway area. |