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1911 Philadelphia Inquirer 8 Jan. 5 I had entertained the mistaken impression that the house was one of those ‘Movies’—as the small boy chooses to call the picture show shops.

1913 Home Chat 27 Sept. 578/1 The comparatively small towns [in America] have installed ‘movies’—as they call them over there—in their schools.

1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby vii. 150 Those big movies around Fiftieth Street are cool.

1942 Short Guide Great Brit. (U.S. War Dept.) 13 The British have theaters and movies (which they call ‘cinemas’) as we do.

1977 A. Tyler Earthly Possessions xv. 191 These places were strung together like beads, no empty spots between them but ravelings of Tastee-Freezes, seashell emporiums, and drive-in movies.

1913 Writer's Mag. Dec. 264/2 If you want a chance to pay tribute to some ‘movie’ actor get a copy of the Ladies World, and ‘full particulars’.

1935 P. G. Wodehouse Luck of Bodkins xv. 178 The kid points and says: ‘Look, mamma. Movie actors!’

1992 N.Y. Times 8 Apr. a16/5 Mr. Lu had praised Clint Eastwood and other movie actors for knowing how to even a score with a gun.

1913 Theatre Mag. June 178/1 Not only did Mary Pickford act before the camera while she was the ‘$10,000 Movie Actress’, she got to writing scenarios..herself.

1949 M. Lowry Let. 1 July (1967) 180 My..brother-in-law, who entertains himself..by listening to the chests of movie actresses.

1993 J. Cartwright Masai Dreaming 125 Of course I know that movie actresses often cannot choose their roles.

1915 Chicago Tribune 5 July 8/2 (heading) Movie ads as come-ons.

1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 82/1 In one movie ad the woman says: ‘I killed a man for this kiss.’

1993 Time 15 Mar. 62 Chances are you know Craig better from the bold-faced blurbs that trumpet his opinions in countless movie ads.

1915 Chicago Tribune 5 July 8/2 When a movie advertisement reads that the ‘police positively prohibit the admission of any one under 21’ a situation is created which cannot be observed other than with chagrin by any one interested in perfecting the censorship system.

1988 Millimeter Apr. 114/3 Pick up any newspaper, turn to the entertainment pages, and you'll find 70mm in large print throughout the movie advertisements.

1913 Daily Commonwealth (Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin) 30 May 5/2 (heading) Martin embarks in movie business.

1985 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 9 Oct. b13/4 Financial arrangements in the movie business are often vague, tentative or conditional.

1913 Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily News 19 May 2/5 To many of the wholesale business houses of Lincoln, to railroad shops and store-houses, [etc.], went the movie camera men today.

1934 Punch 14 Nov. 536/2 He and another journalist..bought..a couple of small movie-cameras and all the film there was in Australia.

1985 R. Whelan Robert Capa xiv. 118 Both handled the movie camera in a manner that is essentially photographic rather than cinematic.

1913 Outlook 5 Apr. 784/1 The ‘movie’ fan lays himself open to overtired eye nerves.

1953 S. Kauffmann Philanderer iv. 59 There were seven pulps, ten comic magazines, three movie-fan magazines, three confession magazines.

1996 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) 28 Apr. 17/2 An 11-year-old movie fan gets a magic ticket and suddenly finds himself thrust into the big-screen adventures of his hero.

1913 Los Angeles Times 5 Sept. ii. 5/1 Horse movie hero.

1991 Premiere Nov. 18/4 This movie hero's idea of the good life is a top job [and] a flashy car.

1914 Lima (Ohio) Daily News 4 Sept. 4/1 These are good actresses and expert operators of the camera, but they cannot impersonate men and so the great French movie industry is at a standstill.

1992 Time 20 Jan. 59/3 The movie industry is built on dreams—its makers' as well as the audience's.

1914 Chicago Tribune 11 Jan. 10/2 (heading) Offers ‘movie’ magazines.

1929 E. Wilson I thought of Daisy ii. 90 It was a movie magazine called Photo-Life.

1991 F. Buechner Telling Secrets i. 13 The chaise longue was heaped with pillows, a fake leopard-skin throw, a velvet quilt, fashion magazines, movie magazines, [etc.].

1912 Los Angeles Times 9 Sept. ii. 5/2 The cheetah is a long, sleek, ugly cat, but the movie-maker also had to face lions, leopards, ostriches that kicked, [etc.].

1957 N. Frye Anat. Crit. 164 The moviemakers find some difficulty in getting anyone over the age of seventeen into their audiences.

1998 Frame of Reference Spring 5/2 Bible-thumpers and enthusiastic movie-makers..[are] arguing hysterically with each other over the Biblical, moral and cinematic value of this movie.

1914 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 12 July 13/1 Something out of the ordinary run of movie making is shown.

1939 F. S. Fitzgerald Lett. (1964) 415 To be plunged immediately into movie-making.

1989 Empire Sept. 68/2 It's inflated the costs of moviemaking out of all proportion.

1929 N.Y. Times 25 July 24/7 How many hundreds of educated Americans..have come away utterly distressed that such a poorly constructed and directed film is permitted to be shown to the thousands for whom the movie medium should prove an enlightenment!

1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride p. vi/1 A film expert, speaking of the value of the movie medium.

1912 Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily News 23 Sept. a10/3 ‘Movie’ operators not responsible for man's death.

1922 H. L. Foster Adventures Trop. Tramp xix. 343 But the good old days, for writers and movie operators, are already passing from South America.

1916 Washington Post 18 June m2/1 (heading) Movie projector for salesmen.

1942 National Geographic Mag. June 723/2 The big public rooms have ping-pong tables and movie projectors.

1998 N.Y. Times 27 Dec. ii. 22/3 A zoetrope, the earliest forerunner of the movie projector.

1913 Los Angeles Times 20 Sept. ii. 1/5 (heading) Movie rights come high; Jack London sues to restrain screen productions of his work, and to recover damages.

1994 USA Weekend 9 Jan. 4/3 Warner Bros., sniffing a hit, bought the movie rights.

1917 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Evening Tribune 18 Dec. 4/3 (heading) Steer changes movie script to suit himself.

1950 M. Lowry Lett. (1967) 2/9 Have written..a detailed movie script.

1992 M. Medved Hollywood vs. Amer. vi. xvii. 282 Its regular review of movie scripts..amounted to an intolerable interference in the creative process.

1913 Los Angeles Times 20 June iii. 1/6 (heading) Taking Le Doux around town; Saw the Indian chiefs at ‘movie’ studio.

1989 Broadcast 18 Aug. 10/1 In recent years, Disney's movie studio has ranked No 1 in Hollywood.

1913 Frederick (Maryland) Post 18 Sept. 3/3 The Countess of Warwick has entered the ‘movie’ world as a writer of scenarios and has thrown open Warwick Castle, with its thousands of acres of deer park and woodland as a setting for dramas.

1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 19 Jan. 24/3 A part-comic, part-tragic and occasionally vicious sendup of the movie world and its self-destructive and self-important icons.

1979 M. Pye & L. Myles Movie Brats i. 12 Coppola, Lucas, DePalma, Milius, Scorsese, and Spielberg are true movie brats, true children of Hollywood.

1981 Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 9 Aug. 21 The producer of Raiders of the Lost Ark is none but that other ‘movie brat’ whizzkid George (Star Wars) Lucas.

1993 Guardian 21 June ii. 2/2 Of all the ‘Movie Brat’ generation of American directors—Coppola, Scorsese, Milius—Spielberg was the one who stayed a brat.

1958 N.Y. Times 10 Apr. 32/2 Louis de Rochemont made it, and Mr. de Rochemont, as every movie buff should know, has done more to put the sea in cinema than anyone making films.

1973 Guardian 30 Mar. 12/6 Imagine the feelings of a movie-buff if he were told he'd have to get along without Bunuel, Bergman, Chabrol, [etc.].

1998 Civilization Mar. 44/3 I recently invited a 23-year-old movie buff..to watch North by Northwest with me.

1913 Los Angeles Times 13 Oct. ii.7/3 The sport programme will be an especially attractive one, a Wild West section led by Tom Mix, a ‘movie’ cowboy hero, who is far from being an imitation on the range.

1926 A. Huxley Let. 13 May (1969) 269 One mounts a mule and goes off with a movie cowboy down into the gulf.

1941 W. H. Auden New Year Let. iii. 68 Some Texas where real cowboys seem Lost in a movie-cowboy's dream.

1979 Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. j1/1 He's got no stomach for that movie-cowboy stuff.

1913 N.Y. Times Sunday Mag. 13 Apr. v. 9/6 A mind, after years of the great outdoors, as sensitive to impressions as an unused ‘movie’ film.

1992 N. Baker Vox 39 Movie film doesn't work in the dark.

1913 Chicago Tribune 29 Apr. 3/3 (heading) ‘Movie’ kings busy in loop.

1929 E. Wharton Let. 25 Feb. (1988) 520 A group of movie-kings in N.Y. the other day were deploring that a film (unsuccessful) had been made several years ago out of ‘The Age of Innocence’.

1998 Independent (Electronic ed.) 19 May (heading) A foul-mouthed movie king.

1912 Chicago Tribune 29 Aug. 3/4 (heading) Writs served on ‘movie’ men.

1985 S. Morley Other Side of Moon (1986) viii. 145 An irascible, intriguing and unusually intelligent movieman.., Wyler was one of the best arguments for Hollywood nepotism.

1916 Decatur (Illinois) Rev. 14 June 5/4 Sherman, who is a movie mogul, has control of the Twin City fight game.

1937 W. Whitman Bread & Circuses iv. 44 Harlem's minor triumph was reversal of that ancient story of the American movie mogul who cabled to England for rights to produce a Shakespeare play.

1973 Canad. Notes & Queries Nov. 12 Those who have examined the career of Canada's first ‘movie mogul’, have not been able to uncover the final chapters of his life.

2000 Calgary (Alberta) Sun (Electronic ed.) 9 June Local production crews..have impressed the biggest movie moguls.

1913 Frederick (Maryland) Post 8 July 8/5 At the present time there are several ‘movie palaces’ being constructed at a cost greatly in excess of the last named figure.

1936 A. Huxley Olive Tree 40 When I was last at Margate a gigantic new movie palace had just been opened.

1992 N.Y. Times 19 Jan. ii. 34/2 This soft and easy room is not, to be sure, anything like the great movie palaces of old.

1913 Day Bk. (Chicago) 19 Nov. A year ago Belasco discovered beautiful Mary [Pickford] in a ‘movie’ picture.

1916 E. V. Lucas Vermilion Box ccxiii. 250 I wish a movie picture could be taken of him.

1919 Evening Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 1 Apr. 1/6 Fourteen Elyria stage hands have formed a union to be affiliated with the Theatrical Stage Employees and Movie Picture Operators Union.

1913 Los Angeles Times 21 July ii. 3/4 The participants in the ball will see the first public demonstration in America of how a moving picture is made, Fred Mace and the members of the Majestic Film Company having arranged to bring their equipment to the Auditorium and stage a ‘movie’ play.

1917 ‘W. Wynning’ Princes Street & Other Otago Rhymes 11 A girl one sees in ‘movie’ plays.

1936 G. K. Chesterton As I was Saying xxxi. 191 The fiction on the film, the partisan version in the movie-play.

1912 Washington Post Sunday Mag. 22 Dec. 2/3 (heading) ‘Movies’ queen on stage; Mary Pickford deserts film features for a Belasco career.]

1914 Los Angeles Times 26 Feb. ii. 1/4 Nadine and Yvonne de Ojeda..were among the merry party that partook of the hospitality of the movie queen.

1990 J. Welch Indian Lawyer 276 In her bright orange muumuu and silver slippers, she looked like a Hollywood movie queen gone to fat.

1913 Indianapolis Star 13 June 8/4 Suggestion to movie scenario writers.

1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media (1967) i. v. 65 When the movie scenario or picture story was applied to the idea article.

1912 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 13 Dec. 4 a ‘Motor car bandits forced their victim to enter their car under the glare of a street car's headlight’—just like they do it on the ‘movie’ screen.

1921 Churchman 29 Jan. 15/1 Pictures of these floats were shown on thousands of movie screens throughout the country.

1957 Times 3 July 5/4 The round actors of the legitimate stage can be at least as lively as the flat actors of the movie screen.

1996 B. S. Wills in S. E. Woodworth Amer. Civil War xlvi. 616 The contribution of African Americans in the war has found a place on the movie screen.

2016 Nation (Thailand) (Nexis) 18 Mar. It's difficult to imagine the generals' attitude being adjusted in the flickering light of a movie screen.

1912 Chicago Tribune 25 Aug. e2/6 (heading) $5,000 will start ‘movie’ show.

1925 A. P. Herbert Laughing Ann 33 I..wish That life was a little like a movie-show.

1974 M. Z. Lewin Enemies Within xxv. 107 I'll..tell Janie about the movie shows at the frat.

1924 Zanesville (Ohio) Signal 4 Mar. 7/3 Motion picture producers, if convinced by photos that a girl might be a find, would take the trouble to have a movie test made of her at home.

1952 M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) x. 197 One of Furness's long-tressed Ritas was promised a movie-test.

1913 N.Y. Times 18 Feb. 13/3 The moving picture..may be capable of providing entertainment to be taken seriously by audiences which have never seen the inside of a ‘movies’ theatre.]

1913 Los Angeles Times 19 May i. 5/2 Kentucky society was shocked after seeing itself on a motion picture screen in a 10-cent movie theater, turkey-trotting and cutting up generally.

1968 Michelin Guide N.Y. City 9 Movie Theaters.—Like the theaters, many first-run movie houses are clustered in the Broadway area.

1992 Canad. Geographic Jan. 56/3 The nearest movie theatre, which is south of the border, shows more first-run movies.