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Originally Posted by issybird
Nope, you've still got it wrong. Movies were movies when they were silent, i.e., moving pictures. Once sound was added, they became talkies, a word which clearly needs to be brought back in the interest of precision. So, you would say, "I saw that movie," but "I saw and heard that talkie."

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But silent films had subtitles, so back then it was "I saw and read that movie"