motion pictures

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Yet her fame derives not from directing, but rather from acting in more than 200 motion pictures from the mid-1920s until shortly before her death, at age 67, in 1977.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

Then, to get more subscribers, the push was to make their own IP or buy big theatrical motion pictures that had success.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025

In the 100 years since, the glamorous building style - evocative of neon-lit jazz bars and the golden age of big motion pictures - rapidly spread around the world.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025

The moments pay homage to one of history’s first motion pictures, a Lumière film of employees leaving a factory.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2024

There was a time before television, before motion pictures, before radio, before books.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan