Moving Pictures

Golden Age Hollywood — the dream factory, the manufactured star system, and the way cinema creates illusions that can take on a life of their own. Pratchett parallels the metaphorical 'magic' of cinema with actual Discworld magic.

First published in October 1990 by Victor Gollancz. It is the tenth Discworld novel.

It is the first book in the loose 'Industrial Revolution' arc — a grouping of Discworld novels that each examine a different modern industry transplanted to the Disc. The sequence continues with The Truth (newspapers), Going Postal (postal service), and others.

Dibbler is one of the Discworld's great comic supporting characters — an Ankh-Morpork street vendor who can smell any business opportunity and immediately produce a terrible product to fill it. His meat pies are legendarily bad. He reappears across many Discworld novels.