Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1921, originally in reference to movie house projection screens colored with metallic paint to be more reflective. Transferred sense of "movies generally" is attested from 1924.
Wiktionary
n. 1 the cinema screen onto which movies are projected 2 (context idiomatic English) By extension, the movies or that related to movies or cinema.
WordNet
n. the film industry
a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing [syn: screen, projection screen]
Wikipedia
Silver Screen Cinemas was a multiplex cinema operator in Poland. In February 2008 it was announced that Silver Screen will merge with its rival Multikino. Since then all Silver Screen cinemas have been converted to Multikino brand, except a single one based in Łódź. Many customers are not pleased because of outlook of Multikino cinemas and low level of the personnel.
Silver Screen at its peak operated three cinemas in Warsaw, one in Gdynia and one in Łódź. The latest of the Warsaw cinemas, opened in the beginning of 2004 in the Targówek district, has about 2600 seats divided among twelve screens. It is one of the largest cinemas in Poland.
Silver Screen is a science fiction novel by Justina Robson, first published by Macmillan in 1999. It features Anjuli O'Connell, employed as a psychologist to monitor an Artificial Intelligence named 901. She has a photographic memory and perfect recall. The story concerns events following the death of Roy Croft, Anjuli's colleague and friend. The book's themes include machine rights and evolution.
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Silver Screen may refer to:
- Silver screen, a type of projection screen
- Silverscreen, UK retail chain
- Silver Screen, Polish cinema operator
- Silver Screen (magazine) (1930-?)
- Silver Screen (novel), science fiction novel
- Silver Screen (Pakistan), film-based TV channel
- Silver Screen Classics, Canadian cable TV channel
- Silver Screen Partners, U.S. theatrical motion picture financier
- Silver Screen Pictures, Indian film company
- Silver Screen Awards Competition, Singapore International Film Festival
- Silver Screen Handicap, American Thoroughbred horse race, now known as the Affirmed Handicap
- Silva Screen Records, UK label
- Songs of the Silver Screen, Studio album by Sons of the San Joaquin
- Movie theatre, sometimes referred to as the silver screen.
Silver Screen was an American monthly magazine focusing on the film industry. It had its first publication in November 1930, and continued publication through the 1970s. It positioned itself as a source for behind the scenes stories about the stars of movie industries. The publication contained articles about film personalities, relationships, fashion and the film companies. It also contained reviews of the new releases in the film industry.
Usage examples of "silver screen".
The Release Flame cooled the room and the great silver screen in minutes.
But mostly he sits up on Mount Cone like a paying customer in the dress circle, and Jahilia is his silver screen.
He figured his value to society was his ability to take the monster out of the closet and flash it on the silver screen in Technicolor, usually adding a few dashes of unapologetic sex and sly humor.
I registered us under the names Kathleen Turner and Rosalind Russell, two of the five people who've played the part of Hildegard/Hildebrandt Johnson on the silver screen.
A pity, indeed, that you ever joined it -- I feel convinced that a notable Thespian has been thereby lost to the boards and the silver screen.
She put her free hand behind her to circle Proke's neck and hugged him, back to back, in the light of the silver screen.
Bronze Legs moved the dolly around to the other side and unfurled a silver screen.
You have tried to tell your brother that blasphemy is wrong, but he hears it and sees it unchecked, uncondemned, across the airwaves and on the silver screen.
They saw a white face there, flickering with unholy light from the silver screen.
He is one with all of the brutalized, despised, downtrodden, misunderstood, cheated, outcast, manipulated people who live upon the silver screen and who are heroic in the face of devastating tribulations.
In truth, he has been made just a smidgin crazy by all those movies, which he hasn't quite yet assimilated, and he isn't at all times able to sort out the truth from the fiction in what he has seen on his mental silver screen.
Ruby, the counter-girl, was sitting by the cash register and reading a Silver Screen.