motion picture

Japanese: motion picture(英語表記)motionpicture
motion picture


[On the word "film"]
The zoetrope, a type of rotating peephole that was the precursor to film, was invented in England in the 1830s, and when it was sold in the West as a scientific toy in the 1860s, the advertising slogan was "Spin the drum to see the picture move." From this, the term "moving picture," or "motion picture," was born, and it is said that it eventually became the term for film. In America, the abbreviation "movie" was already common in the 1910s (there was a fan magazine called "Movie" in the 1920s, and the film company Fox registered the trade name "Movietone"), and it has remained so to this day.

*Some explanations of terms that mention "motion picture" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:


【映画ということばをめぐって】
 映画の前身である〈回転のぞき絵〉の一つ,ゾーエトロープがイギリスで1830年代に発明され,60年代に科学玩具として欧米で売り出されたときの宣伝文句が〈Spin the drum to see the picture move(円筒を回転させると絵が動いて見えます)〉であった。ここから〈動く絵〉を意味する〈ムービング・ピクチャーmoving picture〉,あるいは〈モーション・ピクチャーmotion picture〉という呼称が生まれ,やがて映画を意味することばになったといわれる。アメリカでは1910年代にすでに〈ムービーmovie〉という略語が一般化し(1920年代には〈ムービー〉と名のつくファン雑誌があり,映画会社のフォックスが〈ムービートーン〉という商号登録をしている),今日に至っている。…

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