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silent picture

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Noun1.silent picture - a movie without a soundtracksilent picture - a movie without a soundtrack        
silent movie, silents
motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, pic, film, picture show, flick, picture - a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location"
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The movie would work as a silent picture, because there's little music and the dialogue, while not sharp, is sparse.
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This exhibition shows how photographing words gives voice to silent pictures.
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He was a recluse who scarcely left the Copenhagen apartment he shared with his wife, and which he painted over and again, with and without her, in beautifully still and silent pictures.
He didn't get out much, for which we should be truly grateful by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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