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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, picture, picture show
A representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format (synset 103931348)
is a type of: representation - a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something
subtypes:
- beefcake - a photograph of a muscular man in minimal attire
- black and white, monochrome - a black-and-white photograph or slide
- blueprint - photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.
- cheesecake - a photograph of an attractive woman in minimal attire
- closeup - a photograph taken at close range
- daguerreotype - a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor
- blowup, enlargement, magnification - a photographic print that has been enlarged
- frame - a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film
- glossy - a photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper
- headshot - a photograph of a person's head
- hologram, holograph - the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography
- longshot - a photograph taken from a distance
- microdot - photograph reduced to the size of a dot (usually for purposes of security)
- arial mosaic, mosaic, photomosaic - arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture
- mug shot, mugshot - a photograph of someone's face (especially one made for police records)
- photocopy - a photographic copy of written or printed or graphic work
- stock image, stock photograph - an exisitng photograph licensed for a specific use
- photographic print, print - a printed picture produced from a photographic negative
- photomicrograph - a photograph taken with the help of a microscope
- radiogram, radiograph, shadowgraph, skiagram, skiagraph - a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)
- shot, snap, snapshot - an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
- spectrogram, spectrograph - a photographic record of a spectrum
- stereo, stereoscopic photograph, stereoscopic picture - two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together
- still - a static photograph (especially one taken from a movie and used for advertising purposes)
- telephoto, telephotograph - a photograph made with a telephoto lens
- telephotograph - a photograph transmitted and reproduced over a distance
- time exposure - a photograph produced with a relatively long exposure time
- vignette - a photograph whose edges shade off gradually
- wedding picture - photographs of bride and groom and their friends taken at their wedding
- scene, shot - a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film
same as: exposure, photo, photograph, picture

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