Act and Cinema

Act

Act noun - A performance regularly presented by an individual or group.

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Cinema and act are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Cinema" instead a noun "Act".

Nearby Words: acting, acted

Cinema noun - The art or business of making a movie.

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Act and cinema are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Act" instead a noun "Cinema".

Nearby Words: cine, cinematic, cinemascope

old	old act	old cinema
good	good act	good cinema
popular	popular act	popular cinema
small	small act	small cinema
Other adjectives: entire, real, big, great, bad, major, worst, said.

Constance gives George "the finger" early on in the film, an act that would not have been allowed in American cinema of the day.

Source: Film / The Artist
Early cinema's Le Cochon Danseur, a 1907 short film based on a popular French vaudeville act.

Source: Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal
In the second act, DeMille sings his own version as he sadly reflects on the death of the Silent Age of cinema and how Norma has essentially become a hopeless case.

Source: Dark Reprise

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