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(Encyclopedia)motion pictures, movie-making as an art and an industry, including its production techniques, its creative artists, and the distribution and exhibition of its products (see also motion picture photogr...moving pictures
(Encyclopedia)moving pictures: see motion pictures. ...documentary
(Encyclopedia)documentary: see motion pictures. ...cinema
(Encyclopedia)cinema: see motion pictures.film
(Encyclopedia)film: see motion pictures.animated cartoon
(Encyclopedia)animated cartoon: see Nontheatrical Film under motion pictures. ...Field, Rachel
(Encyclopedia)Field, Rachel, 1894–1942, American writer, b. New York City, educated at Radcliffe. Her books for children include The Cross-Stitch Heart and Other One-Act Plays (1927), Hitty: Her First Hundred Yea...Thomas, John Charles
(Encyclopedia)Thomas, John Charles, 1891–1960, American baritone, b. Meyersdale, Pa., studied at the Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore. After a successful career in musical comedy he made his operatic debut in Wash...special effects
(Encyclopedia)special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. Some common examples are the use ...Pons, Lily
(Encyclopedia)Pons, Lily pänz, Fr. pôNs [key], 1904–76, French-American coloratura soprano. Pons studied piano at the Paris Conservatory. She made her debut in Delibes's Lakmé at Mulhouse, Alsace, in 1928. She...Browse by Subject
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