Sentence examples for primitive movie from inspiring English sources

A hundred years ago, primitive movie narratives would go back in time to show both sides of an event, as, for example, firemen called to a blazing house and the experience of the people trapped by the fire.

But the movie isn't some grainy, hard-nosed chunk of realism, a la Pixote or El Norte; Meirelles offers a considerable level of cinematic sophistication in a dazzling display of both photographic and editing technique - culled from a background in Latin American music video and commercials - that belies any idea that we are looking at some kind of dispatch from a primitive movie-making backwater.

Watching the tiny black-and-white image of Lorin Maazel, waving his baton soundlessly, and a little jerkily, while classical music played in the background, was eerily like watching a primitive silent movie -- "The Maestro," by Thomas Edison.

Way back in 1928 — black-and-white films with sound had only barely begun to turn up in theaters — George Eastman demonstrated a primitive color home-movie camera, prompting a reporter for The New York Times, covering the unveiling, to get downright giddy about the future.

He used the school's first video camera to shoot a short film, which he edited to the sound of Holst's The Planets, and brought the hefty device home during the holidays so that I could make primitive stop-motion movies with my Star Wars figures.

The men include her meatpacking brother (James Duval), a naughty pastor (Walter Koenig) and a Sri Lankan doctor (Linton Semage) who speaks in his native tongue, subtitled for our benefit, although Therese appears to be fluent, versed as she is in the lingua franca of the movie, a primitive dialect of crazy.

One look at these extraordinarily handsome films, and you'll never think of silent movies as primitive again.

I was 11, led to believe all black-and-white movies were primitive at best, incapable of deep thought, let alone modest entertainment.

"Barbaric, elegant, primitive, erotic, revolting, thrilling: the movie, like bullfighting itself, is all of these," Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in The Times.

Although set in the present, the movie evokes a primitive existence that really hasn't changed much over the last half-century.

Chicken embryo transfection, primitive streak transplantation, time-lapse movie recording and tracking of paths of cell migration were performed as described previously (Yang et al., 2002).