Electric Theatre

Japanese: エレクトリック・シアター - えれくとりっくしあたー
Electric Theatre

... Another "modern" word for film is "kinema." In 1913, Kinemacolor was imported from England (from which the Natural Color Motion Picture Company was born), and shortly thereafter, Kyosei Kaeriya's coterie magazine "Katsudou Bimouroku "FILM RECORD"" was renamed "Kinema Record." In 1919, "Kinema Junpo" was launched, and the following year, Shochiku Kinema, Teikoku Kinema, and in 1923, Toa Kinema were founded, and movie theaters with the word "kinema" in their names appeared one after another (Japan's first movie theater was called "Denkikan" (1903) in Asakusa, but the world's first permanent movie theater, which was built in Los Angeles, was also called "The Electric Theatre."). ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Electric Theater" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… もう一つ映画を指す〈モダンな〉ことばとしてキネマがあり,1913年にイギリスからキネマカラーが輸入され(そこから天然色活動写真株式会社が生まれる),その直後,帰山教正の同人雑誌《活動備忘録“FILM RECORD”》が《キネマレコード》と改名。19年には《キネマ旬報》が創刊,また翌20年には松竹キネマ,帝国キネマ,23年には東亜キネマといった映画会社が創立され,映画館の名まえにもキネマと名のつくものが次々に出た(日本の映画館は浅草の〈電気館〉(1903)と名づけられたものから出発したが,ロサンゼルスに作られた世界最初の常設館といわれる映画館も〈エレクトリック・シアターThe Electric Theatre〉であった。)。…

※「エレクトリック・シアター」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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