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A few of the words
- OVERTURE
- Roadshow epics often opened with several minutes of orchestral overture played to a closed curtain, a concert before the film even began.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- COLOSSEUM
- The Colosseum in Rome could seat an estimated 50,000 to 80,000 spectators, a number Hollywood's epic directors loved to evoke on screen.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- TRIUMPH
- A Roman triumph was a strictly regulated victory procession through the city; only a general whose campaign had killed at least 5,000 enemies could be awarded one.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SANDAL
- Critics coined the affectionate term 'sandal epic', sometimes 'sword-and-sandal', for the wave of ancient-world spectacles that dominated screens in the 1950s and 1960s.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Epic films word search, free and large-print, conjuring cast-of-thousands spectacle, velvet curtains, and the hush before the overture.
About Epic Films
Hollywood's great epics asked audiences to believe in worlds far larger than any living room, desert armies cresting sand dunes, chariots thundering around a marble arena, and a full orchestral score swelling under an opening title that seemed to fill the sky. A roadshow epic arrived with its own printed program, a hushed overture before the lights went down, and a velvet curtain that parted only when the moment was exactly right. These were events as much as films, planned months in advance and dressed up for, every element, the costumes, the sets, the cast of thousands, designed to make the ordinary world feel wonderfully, temporarily, small.
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