Motion picture
Motion picture noun - A story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track.
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Play and motion picture are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Play" instead a noun phrase "Motion picture".
Play
Play noun - Activity engaged in to amuse oneself.
Motion picture and play are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Motion picture" instead a noun "Play".
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It was made into a motion picture in 1940, which was directed by Sam Wood, starred a young William Holden as George, and was adapted by Thornton Wilder from his own play.
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Punny Name: The band's name could possibly be a play on the term "original motion picture soundtrack".
Source: Music / Motion City Soundtrack - Indeed, the musical is officially based on both the play and film: as the credit in the program reads, it was "adapted from Bernard Shaw's play and Gabriel Pascal's motion picture Pygmalion." The best-selling original cast album only names the Shaw play on its cover, however.
Source: Lost in Imitation
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