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7th art

7th art is the alternative form of seventh art.

Meaning of seventh art

Noun

the seventh art

  1. (chiefly preceded by the definite article) The art of making motion pictures; filmmaking; cinema.
    • Georges Charensol's Panorama du cinema, originally published in 1927, […] was the bible of devotees of the seventh art.1948, Jacques Queval, “Three French Histories of Film [book reviews]”, in Hollywood Quarterly, volume 3, number 4, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 454, column 2

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7th art is the alternative form of seventh art.

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