Meaning of silver screen | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An early type of cinema screen which had a coating of silver or another shiny metal.
   historical
2. Any cinema screen onto which films are projected.
3. Movies, or that which is related to movies or cinema.
   broadly, idiomatic

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Examples

“The smooth silver screen is well suited to color reproduction for its metallic particles emphasize colors and increase brightness above the level of the matte white screen.”

“The Leonard H. Goldenson Theater at the Academy of Television Arts and Science (ATAS) was converted to a contemporary 8/70 venue, utilizing a projection system from MegaSystems and a silver screen from Harkness Hall.”

“A single projector running Vectograph motion picture film, with a silver screen and the audience wearing Polaroid glasses, would have eliminated many of the difficulties and errors that can arise with both twin-strip and single-strip stereoscopic projection.”

“Stars of the stage and the silver screen gathered for the awards ceremony.”

“Andy Warhol, silver screen / Can't tell them apart at all”

“As the music dies, something in your eyes / Calls to mind a silver screen and all its sad goodbyes”

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