Editing Silver screen (section)

{{Short description|Projection screen used in motion picture industry}}
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A '''silver screen''', also known as a '''silver lenticular screen''', is a type of [[projection screen]] that was popular in the early years<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cook |first=David A. |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1zqdvv8?turn_away=true |title=A History of Three-Dimensional Cinema |date=2021 |publisher=Anthem Press |isbn=978-1-83998-012-1 |doi=10.2307/j.ctv1zqdvv8.7}}</ref>{{when|date=June 2022}}{{vague|date=June 2022}} of the [[motion picture]] industry and passed into popular usage as a [[metonym]] for the cinema industry. The term silver screen comes from the actual [[silver]] (or similarly reflective [[aluminium]]) content embedded in the material that made up the screen's highly reflective surface.