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Hollywood's Golden Age
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The Silver Screen

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Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.

A few of the words

MARQUEE
The marquee's tall, illuminated letters announced the week's feature to the whole street, and changing them by hand, letter by letter, was a nightly job all its own.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
NEWSREEL
Before the main feature rolled, a newsreel brought the wider world to the screen, from sports championships to distant cities, often the only moving images audiences saw of current events.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
ORGAN
Many picture palaces installed a Wurlitzer organ in the 1920s; the instrument could rise dramatically from beneath the stage on a hydraulic lift before the show began.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
MATINEE
The afternoon matinee drew families and students with a lower ticket price, and for many children, it was their very first time inside a movie theater.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Silver screen word search, free and large-print. Step inside the picture palace: the velvet curtain, the glowing marquee, the usher's quiet beam of light.

About The Silver Screen

In Hollywood's Golden Age, a trip to the picture palace was an event in itself. Gilded lobbies, organ music swelling before the curtain rose, and the flicker of a newsreel before the feature, it was an evening of pure, unhurried wonder. Even the popcorn had its own ceremony, scooped high in a striped box from a brightly lit stand near the ticket booth.

How to play

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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    Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.

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