program picture
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of program picture
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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Almost every program picture contains at least one new idea.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has been made into a satisfactory program picture that was advertised at some houses last week without a title in the firesign, being indicated simply as "Clara Bow's Latest."
From Time Magazine Archive
Zukor spent $7,000 making The Prisoner of Zenda, a record price in 1912; by 1916 even an ordinary program picture cost $40,000; soon he was to make films that cost $1,000.000.
From Time Magazine Archive
That it is plotty and thoroughly unreal does not keep this little crook-story from being a fair program picture.
From Time Magazine Archive
The feature was a south sea love drama produced by a rival studio and it was typical program picture with nothing to make it outstanding in interest.
From Janet Hardy in Radio City by Wheeler, Ruthe S.
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