The phrase "a pictures" is not correct in written English.
It should be "a picture" when referring to a single image or "pictures" when referring to multiple images.
Example: "I took a picture of the sunset yesterday."
Alternatives: "an image" or "a photograph."
A: Pictures of the band Black Sabbath.
The old A pictures, made for mass appeal and Oscar glory, no longer have the industry cachet or cultural impact they used to.
La Guardia Concert Hall, 8 p.m. Also tomorrow at 8 p.m. MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY: 50 Years of Forward Motion: Program A, "Pictures," music by David Behrman; "Loose Time" music by Christian Wolff; "How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run," music by John Cage; and a screening of the short film "Mélange".
The "A" pictures of an earlier era (sweeping social dramas like "The Best Years of Our Lives" or bittersweet comedies like "The Apartment") have been reborn as the middle-sized, serious movies that dominate this newspaper's Friday arts section from October to Christmas.
Alex Gordon, a spokesman for Autry's Flying A Pictures, said last week that she was 73 when she died Dec. 18 of cancer in Vista, Calif., where she had lived for many years.
Richard Prince is a Pictures Generation artist.
Cheadle seems to enjoy the challenges of small-scale film-making more than the A-pictures he does.
During the 1930s and '40s, a period often called the Golden Age of Hollywood, B-films were usually paired with bigger-budget, more prestigious A-pictures; but two B-films were sometimes used for midweek or Saturday matinee showings.
By giving the most talented film-makers their heads, Rank reasoned, he would be rewarded with the prestigious A-pictures that would enable him to break into the all-important US market.
11 years ago a pictures-and-text treatment of Currier & Ives by Peters was brought out in two volumes at $115 a set, & now it has been republished, in a single volume at $5. It's going to be the Book-of-the-Month Club dividend for Jan .& Feb.
