Movie exhibition - movie exhibition

Japanese: 映画興行 - えいがこうぎょう
Movie exhibition - movie exhibition

...His interests were said to be limited to technological improvements and his work in making cameras and projectors.
[Establishment of the film industry]

[The beginning of movie theaters and film exhibitions]
In May 1897, during a screening of the then-popular "cinema" as entertainment at a charity bazaar in Paris, a fire broke out from the projector's light source (which at the time used gas, not electricity), and the tented venue was quickly engulfed in flames, resulting in a catastrophic disaster that left 180 people dead (some say 325). According to Paul Rosa's Cinema Until Now (1930), "This disaster was a shock to people all over Europe, and it took several years for this horrible, devilish device to be accepted as a source of mass entertainment."

*Some of the terminology used in relation to "movie exhibition" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…彼の関心は,技術の改良と写真機や映写機の製作という仕事だけに限られていたといわれる。
【映画産業の成立】

[映画館,映画興行の始まり]
 1897年5月,パリの慈善バザールの余興として人気絶頂の〈映画〉の上映会が行われている最中に,映写機の光源(当時は電気でなくガスを用いていた)から出火し,たちまちテント張りの会場が火につつまれて,死者180名(一説には325名)を出す大惨事が起きた。ポール・ローサの《今日までの映画》(1930)によれば,〈この惨事はヨーロッパ中の人々に打撃を与え,この恐ろしい悪魔の装置が大衆娯楽を生み出すものとしてうけいれられるまでにはその後数年を要した〉という。…

※「映画興行」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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