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Doctor Zhivago The Godfather History of Hollywood A movie bingo card titled "Britannica's Movie B-I-N-G-O" featuring a 5x5 grid of iconic movie stills from various films, with instructions to name the movies. Kinetoscope
Why do movie theaters serve popcorn?
Seven Samurai King Kong Orson Welles: Citizen Kane Lady in the Lake
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Motion-picture projector.
motion picture summary
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Publicity still from the motion picture film "The Terminator" (1984); directed by James Cameron. (cinema, movies)
Match the Quote to the Movie Quiz
Empty movie theater and blank screen (theatre, motion pictures, cinema).
Oscar-Worthy Movie Trivia
Publicity still with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman from the motion picture film "Casablanca" (1942); directed by Michael Curtiz. (cinema, movies)
Best Picture Movie Quote Quiz
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Hollywood What If Quiz
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Tom Cruise as Maverick in Top Gun(1986) directed by Tony Scott.
Can You Guess the Movie by the Scene?
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Inventions that Helped Shape How We Interact with Knowledge and Information
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Doctor Zhivago
The Godfather
Kinetoscope
Seven Samurai
King Kong
Orson Welles: Citizen Kane
Lady in the Lake
Stagecoach
Raging Bull
D.W. Griffith: Intolerance
Why do movie theaters serve popcorn?
Study film-making techniques employed in an adaptation of John Millington Synge's The Well of the Saints
How talkies replaced silent films
Follow a director as he films a motion picture adaption of Eugène Ionesco's The New Tenant
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