As one of the most prominent theatre managers in San Francisco recently said in the Motion Picture News: "In many pictures the big scene is 'put over' by a sub-title.
Watching the Pictures Unless you are already a successful fiction writer when you first determine to write photoplays it is not going too far to assert that you have never yet really watched a motion picture.
Little by little "art" in motion picture production is becoming a reality instead of being merely a high-sounding word used occasionally by the press-agents.
As they passed through Film City Uncle John remarked: "We are invited to visit this place and witness the making of a motion picture.
The girls could not wait for a later performance, so eager were they to see themselves in a motion picture, nor were they disappointed to find they were a mere incident in the long roll of film.
The only financial failures among the host of motion picture theatres, so far as I have observed, are those that have attempted to run travel scenes and educational films exclusively.
Then when we’d made the cupboard and the chairs and things, we could cut out Mother Hubbard and the dog and make a motion picture of it—just a short one.
The frame looked like the frame of a motion picture screen.
It was a friend who was kind enough to believe and tell me that I had talent for acting who first interested me in motion picture work.
We considered the gateway a subject worthy of a motion picture, if taken from the deck of the boat; but doubted if it would be a success owing to the condition of the light and the motion of the boat.
We made a motion picture, while dropping our boats down with lines, over the first rapid we considered bad.
The unsteady illumination of a motion picture; caused mostly by insufficient speed of film or too brilliant illumination.
The peculiar hazy appearance often seen in a motion picture; it is produced by the improper setting of the revolving shutter.
A very simple form of motion picture is made up in the form of a small book containing a number of leaves that may be run off under the finger of the holder.
I'm not expecting you to turn into a motion picture actress, but I want you to do your best out there.
She couldn't seriously hope to be a motion picture actress, but for just a moment she had found herself dreaming of real fame and fortune in Hollywood.
You're going out there for a lark and not with the serious intent of becoming a motion picture actress.
Early in the Fall preceding, after a great deal of thinking, planning and actual hard work, Frank, Randy and Pep had become proprietors of a motion picture show at Fairlands.
When I say that I don't mean that they were any better than we are, but that they so regarded themselves, and would look askance at motion picture players.
Alice, who was reading a motion picture magazine, was startled by hearing a voice saying, almost in her ear: "Is Miss Brown in?
Perhaps it would be a sound observance to confine this form of motion picture to a half reel or quarter reel, just as the Imagist poem is generally a half or quarter page.
But by comparison to motion picture performers, stage-actors are their own managers, for they have an approximate notion of how they look in the eye of the audience, which is but the human eye.
All this by the motion picture as a recording instrument, not necessarily the photoplay, a much more limited thing, a form of art.
As a motion picture star, she had the satisfaction of knowing that she was paid a slightly larger salary than had been, until recently, received by the President of the United States.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "motion picture" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
