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moving picture
[f. moving ppl. a. + picture n.]
†1. A picture in which objects move, or appear to move, in imitation of their natural motion. Obs.
1709Daily Courant 9 May, The most Famous, Artificial and Wonderful Moving Picture that came from Germany. 1709–10Tatler No. 129 ⁋1 The moving Picture in Fleet-Street. 1713Swift Jrnl. to Stella 27 Mar. (1948) II. 647, I went afterwards to see a famous moving Picture, & I never saw any thing so pretty. 1715Boston News-Let. 14 Mar. 2/2 The Italian Matchean, or Moving Picture, wherein are to be seen, Wind-Mills and Water-Mills moving round. 1727M. W. Montagu Let. Mar. (1966) II. 73, I now and then peep upon these things with the same coldness I would do on a moving Picture. 1782Town & Country Mag. Apr. 208/2 With moving pictures Loutherburg displays His graphic skill... He derives new pow'rs, To drive fatigue from exhibition hours. 1822Hive I. 66/1 The illustrations consisted of a series of finely painted scenes, which were made to change their effect and constructions, and accompany, in a rapid and beautiful manner, the progress of the story, embodying, as it were, in a moving picture, almost as vivid as the tablet of a camera obscura, every circumstance as it fell from the speaker's lips. 1899Science Siftings XV. 242/1 A second edition has reached us of the ‘Motograph Moving Picture Book’... These moving pictures should prove interesting to children.
2. A cinematographic picture or film. Also attrib.
1896Queen Victoria Jrnl. 3 Oct. in Lett. (1932) 3rd Ser. III. 87 We were all photographed..by the new cinematograph process, which makes moving pictures by winding off a reel of films. 1897Sketch 13 Oct. 480/2 One guinea and half-a-guinea are being asked for stalls to see the moving pictures of the Corbett–Fitzsimmons fight at the Empress Theatre. 1898N.Y. Tribune 30 Oct. 8/3 The always interesting moving pictures in the biograph..will include..four new scenes. 1906‘O. Henry’ Four Million 3 He cursed the moving pictures. 1907Pearson's Mag. Jan. (Advt.), Moving Picture Machines. 1912F. A. Talbot (title) Moving pictures: how they are made and worked. 1913Punch 2 Apr. 253/3 It [sc. Mexico] contains a town of 10,000 inhabitants where there is no moving picture palace. 1921G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah iii. 103 What earthly interest is there in looking at a moving picture of a lot of people merely because they were drowned? Ibid. 105 Weve had moving pictures of all four put on the screen today for this American. 1934W. Saroyan Daring Young Man 184 This sense of being out of time has driven thousands of people from their homes into moving-picture theatres where new universes appear before them. 1950T. S. Eliot Cocktail Party i. i. 34 A common interest in the moving pictures Frequently brings young people together. 1959Observer 22 Feb. 19/6 The film is interesting, as a moving-picture record of a movement of our times. |