motion pictures

motion pictures
(movies, pic(s), pix, or "moving pictures")
  a length of film (with or without sound) with a sequence of images that create an illusion of movement when projected; originally referred to the motion or movement (due to the principle of persistence of vision) perceived when a string of celluloid-recorded images were projected at a rate of 16 or more frames per second; an art form, and one of the most popular forms of entertainment, known archaically as a photoplay during the silent era.
  Example: from Edweard Muybridge's 'animal animation' or 'persistence of vision' experiments in the late 19th century.

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