picture show

1. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement (synset 106626039)
   "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location"
   associated with:

   • dub - provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language
   • synchronise, synchronize - make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action
   • film, shoot, take - make a film or photograph of something
   • tape, videotape - record on videotape
   • reshoot - shoot again
   is a type of:

   • product, production - an artifact that has been created by someone or some process
   • show - a social event involving a public performance or entertainment
   subtypes:

   • telefilm - a movie that is made to be shown on television
   • feature, feature film - the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater
   • final cut - the final edited version of a movie as approved by the director and producer
   • home movie - a film made at home by an amateur photographer
   • collage film - a movie that juxtaposes different kinds of footage
   • coming attraction - a movie that is advertised to draw customers
   • shoot-'em-up - a movie featuring shooting and violence
   • short subject - a brief film; often shown prior to showing the feature
   • docudrama, documentary, documentary film, infotainment - a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event
   • cinema verite - a movie that shows ordinary people in actual activities without being controlled by a director
   • film noir - a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters
   • skin flick - a pornographic movie
   • rough cut - the first print of a movie after preliminary editing
   • silent movie, silent picture, silents - a movie without a soundtrack
   • slow motion - a movie that apparently takes place at a slower than normal speed; achieved by taking the film at a faster rate
   • talkie, talking picture - a movie with synchronized speech and singing
   • 3-d, 3d, three-d - a movie with images having three dimensional form or appearance
   • musical, musical comedy, musical theater - a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing
   has:

   • episode, sequence - film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie
   • credit - an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work
   • caption, subtitle - translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen
   • credits - a list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
   • scene, shot - a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film
   same as: film, flick, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, pic, picture

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