Cinema (English spelling)

Japanese: cinéma(英語表記)cinema
Cinema (English spelling)

... Meanwhile, in France, in 1892 (some say 1893), an inventor-mad engineer named Léon Bouly gave the name cinématograph (a compound word from the Greek words kinēmatos (movement) and graphein (to draw)) to a device he invented to take continuous photographs, but this word did not come to be used in a broad sense to mean film until 1895, when the Lumiere brothers unveiled a device that combined a camera and a projector under the name "Cinématographe Lumiere" and held the world's first screening with a screen. In the 1910s, the abbreviation "cinéma" became common (the first French film company, Pathé Cinema, was founded in 1818). Another word that means movie is film, which comes from the Middle English filmen (meaning skin, thin skin or membrane), and according to Jean Giraud's "Glossary of French Cinema", it originally meant the star on the eyeball, and according to J. von Sternberg's autobiography "The Chinese Laundryman's Slapstick", it meant foam.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "cinéma" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… 一方,フランスでは,1892年(1893年という説もある)にレオン・ブーリーという発明狂の技師が,シネマトグラフ(ギリシア語のkinēmatos(動き)とgraphein(描く)の合成語)という名称を自分の発明した連続写真の装置に与えたが,これが広く映画を意味することばになるのは,95年にリュミエール兄弟が〈シネマトグラフ・リュミエール〉の名で撮影機と映写機を兼ねた装置を公表し,世界で最初のスクリーンに映写する上映会を催してからである。1910年代には〈シネマcinéma〉の略語が一般化する(フランス最初の映画会社パテー・シネマが設立されたのは18年である)。 もう一つ映画を意味するフィルムfilmということばは,中世英語のfilmen(皮膚,薄い皮や膜の意)からきており,ジャン・ジローの《フランス映画用語集》によれば元来は眼球のホシ,J.vonスタンバーグの自伝《中国人の洗濯屋のドタバタ》によれば泡を意味することばだったという。…

※「cinéma」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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