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  2. Mid-Atlantic accent - Wikipedia

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    A Mid-Alantic accent is any of various accents of English that are perceived as blending features from both American and British English. [1] [2] In American popular culture, the informal label of Mid-Atlantic accent, [3] [4] [5] or Transatlantic accent, [6] [2] [7] refers to certain non-rhotic speech taught and promoted in early 20th-century American schools of acting, voice, and elocution.

  3. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    Easy going; jovial; cheerful e.g. One movie reviewer refer to the hero of a film A Stranger from Somewhere as a Breezy Westerner [56] brillo Someone who lives fast and is a big spender [8] broad. Main article: Woman. Expression used solely by men to refer to a woman and widely considered offensive by women [59] bronx cheer. Main article:Blowing ...

  4. Category:1900s neologisms - Wikipedia

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  5. History of film - Wikipedia

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    The use of the intertitle to explain actions and dialogue on screen began in the early 1900s. Filmed intertitles were first used in Robert W. Paul's film, Scrooge, or Marley's Ghost. [54] In most countries, intertitles gradually came to be used to provide dialogue and narration for the film, thus dispensing the need for narration provided by ...

  6. Category:Film and video terminology - Wikipedia

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    F. Fake Shemp; False ending; Fan edit; Feature film; Field dominance; Fig Rig; Film adaptation; Film cement; Film d'auteur; Film distributor; Film frame; Film grammar

  7. Webster's Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Porter also edited the succeeding edition, Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language (1890), which was an expansion of the American Dictionary. It contained about 175,000 entries. In 1900, Webster's International was republished with a supplement that added 25,000 entries to it.

  8. Glossary of motion picture terms - Wikipedia

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    Also one-shot cinema, one-take film, single-take film, continuous-shot film, or oner. A feature-length motion picture filmed in one long, uninterrupted take by a single camera, or edited in such a way as to give the impression that it was. opening credits (for a film) opening shot (for a scene) over cranking over the shoulder shot (OTS)

  9. List of English-language idioms of the 19th century - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of idioms that were recognizable to literate people in the late-19th century, and have become unfamiliar since.. As the article list of idioms in the English language notes, a list of idioms can be useful, since the meaning of an idiom cannot be deduced by knowing the meaning of its constituent words.