Flicker
Flicker noun - A story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track.
Usage example: as a child, the future director would spend hours sitting in the theater, totally entranced by the flickers
Picture and flicker are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Picture" instead a noun "Flicker".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Ominous Visual Glitch: The presence of the aliens causes the picture in Riley's camera to flicker.
Source: Film / Alien Abduction (2014) -
He comes across a door with the sign "HALL OF FAM" above it, and assumes that's the place; after he goes inside, the rest of the letters flicker on to reveal it's actually the Hall of Infamy, where they picture their worst god kids.
Source: Signs of Disrepair - PAL has slightly better picture quality and higher resolution but was subject to flicker due to its lower refresh rate of 50Hz.note Again, this was down to the old world monochrome TV systems, which were adapted to run at 50Hz.
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