"movie" compounds

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 06:45:23 -0500, Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
wrote:

>On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>
>> movie picture (OED3 1916)
>>
>> 1909 _(Elyria, Ohio) Evening Telegram_ 1 April 1/6 Fourteen Elyria stage
>> hands have formed a union to be affliated with the Theatrical Stage
>> Employees and Movie Picture Operators Union [sic].
>
>Now come on, clearly this is one of the misdated Elyria Evening Telegram
>issues.  As I have posted at length, there are no usages of the word
>"movie" that check out prior to 1911.

My apologies-- I neglected to double-check that one.  The actual date for
the cite is 1919, not 1909.


--Ben Zimmer