cineman.
/ˈsɪnᵻmə/, /ˈsɪnᵻmɑː/, U.S. /ˈsɪnəmə/ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > projection > [noun] > apparatus for projecting films
kinematoscope1861
tachyscope1889
kinetoscope1894
kinematograph1895
mutoscope1895
biograph1896
cinematograph1896
cinematoscope1896
kinetophone1896
theatroscope1896
vitascope1896
bioscope1897
polyscope1900
cinema1908
cinephone1909
cine projector1916
animatograph1919
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming equipment > [noun] > camera
kinetograph1891
kinetophonograph1894
cinematograph1896
animatograph1898
sound camera1904
cinecamera1908
cinema1908
aeroscope1913
TV camera1947
camcorder1982
headcam1991
1899 H. V. Hopwood Living Pict. 184 The Dom-Martin Cinéma is said to possess a spring-escapement mechanism.]
1908 North-China Herald 3 Apr. 53/1 Seeing is not always believing, and not only gramophone records but cinema pictures are faked every day.
1910 Daily Chron. 7 Mar. 6/7 ‘Cinematograph’—which has just been cut down in a glaring advertisement to ‘cinema’.
1913 V. Steer Romance of Cinema 12 The so-called ‘comic’ films from France which one sees on the cinema.
2.
a. Films or movies collectively; films or movies considered as an industry, art form, or type of entertainment. In early use also: exhibitions or shows of films using a cinematograph.Free Cinema, world cinema: see the first element.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > [noun] > films or the cinema
cinematograph1896
animation1897
cinema1908
movies1909
movie screen1912
pic1913
big screen1914
film1915
motion pictures1915
picture1915
screen1915
seventh art1921
celluloid1922
silver screen1924
flick1926
flickers1927
pix1932
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > [noun] > films or the cinema > material suitable for
cinema1908
1908 Views & Film Index 5 Sept. 20/3 The Parisians have hitched a phonograph to the cinematograph and are reproducing simultaneously..the sound of the actor's voice and the movements of the actor's body, and people pay as high as ten francs and sit for two hours to view the novel effects of the ‘Cinema’, as it is called.
1916 H. B. Tree in Out West Feb. 71/2 The drama and the photoplay..are differentiated by the fact that the drama is built with words, the photoplay virtually without them. This is so important a difference that it surely establishes..the claim of the cinema as a separate though related art.
1938 New Statesman 15 Jan. 82/1 If anyone doubts that France now leads the world in the production of serious cinema, he should see the three French films listed above.
1952 Sunday Times 25 May 7/7 It would be foolish to try to judge ‘Mourning Becomes Electra’ (Carlton) as a piece of cinema.
1970 K. Tynan Let. 23 Nov. (1994) vii. 479 I want to write about working with him and what it taught me about cinema.
1999 N. Iglesias in J. Hershfield & D. R. Maciel Mexico's Cinema (2005) x. 235 The genre in general is distinguished by being a cinema of poor technical and narrative quality.
2018 S. Rawle Transnational Cinema ii. 31 De Sica's Bicycle Thieves..demonstrates many of the stylistic traits of neorealist cinema.
b. A film, a movie. Now rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > [noun]
cinematograph1896
kinematograph1898
picture show1908
cinema1909
motion pictures1915
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > [noun]
living picture1851
kineograph1891
motion picture1891
picture1894
animatograph1896
cinematograph1896
moving picture1896
kinetogram1897
film1899
bioscope1902
action film1909
cinema1909
movie1910
photodrama1910
photoplay1910
movie picture1913
pic1913
screenplay1913
photonovel1916
flick1926
moom pitcher1929
1909 D. Sladen Trag. of Pyramids 90 There were not many better cinematographs, for a woman to look at, than the cinema—that was the form in which she used the word—of a handsome, well-bred, manly Englishman.
1915 A. Huxley Let. 23 Apr. (1969) 69 Some of the mechanical jokes—such as the cinema of the baby in the automobile pram..are very good.
1932 B. Russell in Harper's Mag. June 558/2 The pleasures of urban populations have become mainly passive: seeing cinemas, watching football matches, listening to the radio, and so on.
1963 Peace Corps Volunteer Sept. 11/2 Her life is one of teaching, visiting, going to teas, reading novels, knitting, and an occasional cinema.
3. A theatre designed for the purpose of showing films for entertainment, consisting of an auditorium with a large screen on to which films are projected; a building containing such a theatre or theatres. Cf. Compounds 2, movie theatre n. at movie n. Compounds 2.Movie theatre is the more common term in North America.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > a cinema > [noun]
bioscope1902
picture house1906
picture theatre1906
kinema1908
Picturedrome1908
picture palace1908
cinema1911
movie1911
movie house1912
movie palace1913
movie theatre1913
theatre1923
Odeon1930
1911 Times 11 Mar. 13/2 The trade generally has co-operated..to make cinemas both entirely safe from fire in the auditorium and free from danger through the provision of open gangways and ample exits.
1918 Racine (Wisconsin) Jrnl. News 26 Aug. 3/2 Some of the French doctors, Miss Hamilton and I went to the cinema which they have here in the big refectoire.
1955 Financial Times 18 Nov. 11/1 In Australia..the drive-in cinema is rapidly growing in popularity.
1989 W. Dalrymple In Xanadu (1990) vii. 240 Coming out of the cinema, I noticed for the first time a winter nip in the air.
2012 Sun (Nexis) 17 Apr. 26 (headline) Top films coming to a cinema near you this summer.
Compounds
C1.
a. General attributive, as cinema actor, cinema audience, cinema star, cinema ticket, etc.
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1908 North-China Herald 3 Apr. 53/1 Seeing is not always believing, and not only gramophone records but cinema pictures are faked every day.
1913 V. Steer Romance of Cinema 43 To become a cinema ‘star’ is not an easy matter.
1915 Bioscope 22 Apr. 268/1 The first matter to be dealt with was the prices being paid to authors and the form of cinema contracts.
1919 J. Buchan Mr. Standfast xiii. 245 Were you ever a cinema actor, Dick?
1930 Times 10 Dec. 16/2 Cinema proprietors..benefitted by Sunday exhibitions of films.
1953 K. Reisz Technique Film Editing 276 From this cut negative and the negative of the re-recorded composite sound-track, a married print is prepared which is ready for projection to cinema audiences.
1984 O. Clark Diary 15 Dec. (1998) 151 Dashed off to the West End for cinema tickets then home to a rather down evening alone.
1996 Times 1 Aug. 34 (caption) Sue Lyon in the cinema adaptation of Nabokov's Lolita (1962).
2006 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 15 Oct. 17 A sprinkling of pre-teens at one cinema screening sat gamely and apparently receptively through the session.
b.
cinema history n.
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1913 Cinema 2 Apr. 44/2 The brave defence of her no less courageous progeny will be ‘cinema history’ for many months to come.
1974 Furrow 25 442 Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs..made cinema history on its first appearance in 1937 by being the first ever feature-length animated cartoon.
2010 Financial Times 28 Aug. (Life & Arts section) 19/7 It is one of the iniquities of cinema history that there is not one second of film showing the Diaghilev company.
cinema industry n.
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1912 Newcastle (New S. Wales) Morning Herald & Miner's Advocate 2 Mar. 16/5 The cinema industry has developed wonderfully.
1938 Life 6 June 76/2 (caption) The cinema industry..sells 85,000,000 theater tickets weekly.
2000 Canberra Sunday Times 11 June 3/2 (Advertising section) He has extensive experience in the cinema industry, having been trained in projection, customer service and back of house duties.
cinema projector n.
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1913 Cinema News & Prop. Gaz. 3 Sept. 3/1 The rays of light pouring from the cinema projector were cut off suddenly.
1952 Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, Austral.) 25 Aug. 1/6 Farouk had a cinema projector which he could work while seated in bed.
2017 MailOnline (Nexis) 3 July (Science section) The programmable headlights work by replacing the traditional bulb and LEDs in headlights with a device similar to that found in cinema projectors.
C2. Compounds denoting (the name of) a cinema (sense 3).
cinema hall n.
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1908 North-China Herald 3 Apr. 53/1 The Paris ‘cinema-halls’ are to give short plays specially written for them.
2007 Times 22 Feb. (Times2 section) 13/1 On an average day, India releases an average of 2.5 feature films..watched by at least 15 million people a day in one of the country's 13,002 cinema halls.
cinema house n.
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1909 Observer 28 Nov. 6/7 225, Oxford-street,..on which site ‘Cinema House’ is now being erected.
1912 Penny Illustr. Paper 23 Nov. 648/1 I cannot denounce too strongly this habit of herding in the unhealthy, vitiated atmospheres of theatres, music halls, and cinema houses in the evenings.
1991 B. Bandele-Thomas Man who came in from Back of Beyond (1992) iv. 113 [Kafanchan] has..a post office, a hospital, a cinema house and more than enough schools to cater to the growing influx of school-goers.
cinema palace n.
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1908 Financial Times 19 Dec. 10/4 Cinema Palaces, Ltd—Registered 1st December... Objects: To carry on the business of entertainers, theatre, or music hall proprietors, &c.
1938 Rotarian June 23 (caption) Crowds stand for hours..to glimpse their favorite stars as they arrive at the cinema palace.
2009 A. Kaes Shell Shock Cinema v. 207 Lavish cinema palaces were built in the mid-1920s.
cinema theatre n.
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1910 Harvard Monthly Mar. 20 Recently vaudeville ‘stunts’ have been portrayed in the cinema theatres by means of combination of phonograph and moving pictures.
1996 Sci. Amer. Feb. 120/2 I can't resist that magic moment in the cinema theater when the lights go down.
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cinema camera n. a camera used to record a series of images which can be displayed in rapid succession to create the impression of movement; esp. (in later use) one designed for professional use in the film industry.
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1913 Penny Illustr. Paper 15 Mar. 28/1 That comedian.., best known as ‘Wiffles’, is quite at home on the vaudeville stage as he is when acting in front of the exacting lens of the cinema camera.
1961 Evening Sun (Hannover, Pa.) 3 Aug. 18/1 Among those [TV personalities] currently before the cinema cameras are Herschel Bernardi, late of ‘Peter Gun’ [sic], Steve McQueen, Fess Parker and Nick Adams.
2018 K. Lancaster DSLR Cinema (ed. 3) Introd. p. xxvi Serious low-budget filmmakers who want to be taken seriously tend to shoot their films on low budget cinema cameras rather than DSLRs and mirrorless cameras.
cinema complex n. a large cinema containing multiple separate auditoria; cf. multiplex n. 5.
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1965 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 July 623 The renaissance of the art cinema, spearheaded by..the Academy cinema complex in Oxford Street.
1982 N.Y. Times 30 May iii. 17/1 The Sunrise..[and] Mr. Redstone's..Drive-In, have been replaced by two ‘multiplex’ cinema complexes—large indoor movie houses with as many as 12 screens.
2002 A. Brookner Making Things Better (2004) i.3 They found themselves in the vast café that was part of the cinema complex.
cinema film n. (a) photographic film used in filmmaking; a strip or roll of this; (b) a film released in cinemas.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming equipment > [noun] > film
stock1897
cinema film1912
1912 Express & Tel. (Adelaide) 10 Feb. 5/1 (caption) The life of cinema films.
1912 Washington Post 12 Apr. 4/5 The old man..had, just prior to the time of the cinema film being taken, set on foot inquiries, with a view to discovering the whereabouts of his long-lost daughter.
1922 Photogr. Jrnl. Amer. Mar. 122/2 The technical experts should be able to specify the qualities which a cellulose acetate should have in order to fit it for the manufacture of cinema film.
2011 J. Jäger & S. Cornell Planet in 2050 ii. 8 The film, The Planet, was released in 2006 both as a cinema film and as a four-part documentary for television.
cinema organ n. a type of pipe organ specially adapted for use in a cinema, usually having extra percussion stops and other effects, and commonly used to accompany silent films in the 1920s and 1930s; cf. theatre organ n. at theatre n. Compounds 2.Theatre organ is the more common term in North America.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > types of organ > [noun] > cinema organ
cinema organ1913
theatre organ1930
1913 Cinema 12 Feb. 11/2 (heading) A large cinema organ.
1952 Rotarian Jan. 14/3 The population..prefers, above everything else, variety;..light music, military bands, musical comedies, and cinema organs.
2003 Times 6 Jan. 7/3 The last cinema organ in its original surroundings fell silent yesterday when the Granada EMD theatre in Waltham Forest, East London, closed.
cinema organist n. a person who plays a cinema organ, esp. one employed to do so to accompany a silent film.
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1913 Cinema News & Prop. Gaz. 8 Oct. 30/1 (headline) The cinema organist and a stabbing scene.
1927 Melody Maker Sept. 940 (advt.) Big things are ahead of the cinema organist who sets to work to master the technique of Wurlitzer organs.
2008 Financial Times 23 June 19/5 The Kurtágs deny us any glimpse of their faces, their backs four-square to the audience like old-fashioned cinema organists.
cinema play n. now rare a film, a movie; a screenplay for this.
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1908 North-China Herald 3 Apr. 53/1 A cinema play with Sarah Bernhardt..would certainly be worth seeing.
1935 Slavonic & East European Rev. 13 648 Envy remains Olesh's only novel, but his other works—..a cinema play, A Strict Youth (1934), and a romance for children, The Three Fat Men..—show him to be a writer of one theme.
1948 Cornishman 17 June 2/4 You will do well to read in ‘John Bull’ the sensational narrative of the career of Lord Mountbatten, for it will be more fascinating than a cinema play or yellow-backed novel.
cinema release n. a film released in cinemas; the action, process, or fact of releasing a film in cinemas.
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1913 Daily Tel. (Launceston, Tasmania) 17 Sept. 2/4 ‘Quo Vadis’ is absolutely the finest cinema release yet presented to picture patrons.
1936 Chicago Defender 12 Sept. 21/4 I have listened to most of the important air shows; witnessed the latest cinema releases.
1990 What Satellite July 94/3 Wide variety of first-run movies, usually showing 18–24 months after cinema release.
2013 @CasparSalmon 3 Apr. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Just heard a very vague rumour that Soderbergh's Liberace pic, deemed ‘too gay’ for a US cinema release, will be showing at Cannes.
cinema rights n. the legal rights to turn a novel, story, etc., into a film or movie; cf. film rights n. at film n. Compounds 1b(c), movie rights n. at movie n. Compounds 1.
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1913 Times of India 9 July 9/3 Film manufacturers are making efforts in every direction to secure the cinema rights in popular novels.
1953 East & West 4 141/2 Carmine Gallone has acquired the cinema rights for all the more important operas owned by the Ricordi musical publishing house.
2010 P. Lee-Wright Documentary Handbk. v. 330 The television rights came expensively bundled with the cinema rights.
cinema screen n. a large screen in a cinema, or of the type used in cinemas, on to which a film is projected; (with the) cinema, the movies.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > projection > [noun] > screen
scrim1891
cinema screen1912
movie screen1912
widescreen1920
silver screen1924
bead screen1934
screen1952
split screen1953
pinscreen1959
1912 Sunday Times (Sydney) 17 Nov. 19/3 Dozens of queer things happen on the cinema screen.
1952 Daily Tel. 2 Oct. Cinerama..uses a curved screen about six times as large as a normal cinema screen.
1978 P. Caveney Sins of Rachel Ellis vi. 49 She had always believed it [sc. love] to be an invention of the cinema screen and the pop record.
1991 Guardian 19 Feb. 20/1 A giant cinema screen, to be erected on the edge of Zion National Park in Utah, will replace the real-life wilderness experience with drive-in drama.
2016 Daily Mail (Nexis) 8 July Radcliffe..is now an accomplished young actor as comfortable on the stage as he is on the cinema screen.
cinema show n. (a) an exhibition or show of moving pictures using a cinematograph (now historical); (b) the showing of a film or other programme on a cinema screen.In quot. 1910 as a graphic abbreviation.
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1910 Express & Tel. (Adelaide) 13 Sept. 4/5 Even the mention of a circus and a cinema. show passed unheeded.
1916 ‘B. Cable’ Doing their Bit vi. 91 The town, with its stores and shops, its churches and cinema-show.
1949 Times 26 Nov. 4/6 Once a week there is a cinema show in the camp.
2011 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 14 Aug. 4 Tickets for the live cinema show are available in advance from box offices.
Derivatives
ˈcinema-like adj.
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1915 Camarthen Weeklly Rep. 23 Apr. 1/4 Heavy fines have recently been inflicted on British subjects for daring to snapshot warships at anchor. But no one knows of the cinema-like records that are taken from neutral steamers passing up and down the great northern river.
1917 Bookman May 55/1 Dr. Brady's story..moves with cinema-like vividness and velocity.
1993 N.Y. Times 29 Aug. ii. 22/1 Some [television] sets are being manufactured with a cinemalike picture.., with an aspect ratio of 16 to 9.
2012 Leonardo 45 299/3 Large-scale video installations as semi-immersive, cinema-like environments have become de rigueur on the international art circuit.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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