单词 | moving picture |
释义 | moving picturen. 1. A painting, drawing, etc., composed so as to suggest movement, or constructed with movable components; a series of images giving an impression of movement when viewed in (rapid) succession, as in a zoetrope, etc. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > optical shows > [noun] > other optical shows moving picture1709 panorama1791 moving image1819 diorama1823 phantasmagoria1830 slide show1956 1709 Daily Courant 9 May The most Famous, Artificial and Wonderful Moving Picture that came from Germany. 1715 Boston News-let. 14 Mar. 2/2 The Italian Matchean, or Moving Picture, wherein are to be seen, Wind-Mills and Water-Mills moving round. 1727 Lady M. 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. 1782 Town & Country Mag. Apr. 208/2 With moving pictures Loutherburg displays His graphic skill... He derives new pow'rs, To drive fatigue from exhibition hours. 1822 Hive 1 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. 1899 Sci. Siftings 15 242/1 A second edition has reached us of the ‘Motograph Moving Picture Book’... These moving pictures should prove interesting to children. 1994 C. Pursell White Heat iii. 81 A ‘zoetrope’, a popular toy which, when twirled, would produce a ‘moving picture’. 2. A cinematographic film. Cf. motion picture n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > [noun] living picture1851 kineograph1891 motion picture1891 picture1894 animatograph1896 cinematograph1896 moving picture1896 kinetogram1897 film1899 bioscope1902 action film1909 cinema1909 movie1910 photodrama1910 photoplay1910 movie picture1913 pic1913 screenplay1913 photonovel1916 flick1926 moom pitcher1929 1896 Queen 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. 1897 Sketch 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. 1921 G. 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? 1950 T. S. Eliot Cocktail Party i. i. 34 A common interest in the moving pictures Frequently brings young people together. 1990 B. Bettelheim Recoll. & Refl. ii. 113 The art of the moving picture is very much a child of the twentieth century. 2014 J. Jones (title) The past is a moving picture: preserving the Twentieth Century on film. Compounds General attributive in sense 2, as moving picture film, moving picture house, moving picture industry, moving picture show, etc. ΚΠ 1897 in Julius Cahn's Official Theatr. Guide 2 p. xxviii (advt.) The Newest and Best Moving Picture Machine, Films, Slides, Etc., Etc. 1903 G. V. Hobart Back to Woods 87 Well, that moving picture gag was worked on me. 1907 Pearson's Mag. Jan. (advt.) Moving Picture Machines. 1913 Punch 2 Apr. 253/3 It [sc. Mexico] contains a town of 10,000 inhabitants where there is no moving picture palace. 1934 W. 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. 1959 Observer 22 Feb. 19/6 The film is interesting, as a moving-picture record of a movement of our times. 2004 R. Abel in C. Keil & S. Stamp Amer. Cinema’s Transitional Era vi. 131 A vivid yet far from anomalous indication of just how important westerns were not only to the Independents but also to the U.S. moving picture industry as a whole. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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