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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Screen and motion picture are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Screen" instead a noun phrase "Motion picture".
Screen
Screen noun - The art or business of making a movie.
Motion picture and screen are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Motion picture" instead a noun "Screen".
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has Batman and Superman finally share the screen together for the first time in a motion picture.
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Similarly, the first time we see Commodore Matt Decker, he's seen talking to his son, then-Lieutenant Willard Decker of Star Trek: The Motion Picture fame.note Despite there being no on-screen connection between Matt and Will, Word of God seems to suggest the familial connection.
- It might surprise some people to learn that the Klingons didn't even have a language in the original series, as the first words of Klingon weren't spoken on-screen until Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979 (thirteen years after the original series first aired).
Source: Newer Than They Think
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