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cinema
(redirected from movie house)

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cinema: see motion pictures 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 photography ; Motion Picture Cameras under camera ).
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cinema

A movie; a movie theater; the movie industry. The term refers to movies shot for theater audiences in contrast to videos shot with camcorders, still cameras or camera phones. See cinema format.


cinema
1. Chiefly Brit
a. a place designed for the exhibition of films
b. (as modifier): a cinema seat
2. the cinema
a. the art or business of making films

cinema [′sin·ə·mə]
(graphic arts)


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Favorite reasons for preferring to go to the movie house include seeing images on the big screen (cited by 46 percent of respondents) and enjoying the active fun of getting out of the house (46 percent), the biggest motivation among young movie-watchers.
In this collection of essays, he talks about the 21 times he saw the first Star Wars movie, always in the same movie house in Manhattan.
The theater was built in 1925 and reopened in 1993 after the city bought the former movie house.
 
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