Movietone
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The film's success also transformed Wadia Movietone into a studio known for films with fantastic stunts and theatrics.
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2024
In 1948, N-B-C T-V began airing its first nightly newscast, “The Camel Newsreel Theatre,” which consisted of Fox Movietone newsreels.
From Washington Times • Feb. 16, 2021
Fox’s 1926 purchase of Movietone, a company that successfully wedded sound to moving pictures and developed popular newsreels, led him to marvel that the Fox name could be found on screens across the globe.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2019
Although Polanski never directed Caine, both men appear as themselves in Peter Whitehead’s 1967 documentary Tonite Let’s All Make Love In London, as well as this retroactively horrifying-for-many-reasons British Movietone newsreel about the Polanski-Tate wedding:
From Slate • Mar. 11, 2018
People accustomed to reading comparatively dry rehashes of events were now enthralled by vivid scenes rolling across the new Movietone newsreels.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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