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Two hours of someone else's problems, cheaper than therapy and with better lighting.
means A motion picture — a story told in moving images, usually watched for entertainment in a theater or at home.
from Short for 'moving picture,' first describing the flickering silent films of the early 1900s. 'Movie' emerged as casual American slang — the kind of clipped, friendly shortening English loves — and by the 1910s it had outpaced its formal parent, 'motion picture,' in everyday speech, even as the industry kept the fancier term for marquees and credits.
- first ever
- a horse, running, in 1878
- average length
- grew from 12 minutes to 2 hours
- runtime word origin
- short for moving pictures, obviously
- popcorn link
- theaters sold it to survive the depression