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'''A glossary of common words and technical terminology used by projectionists and film exhibitors — in many languages.'''

This glossary is intended to help anyone searching for information about analog film projection and exhibition locate resources in non-English languages. It was created to support keyword searches used in developing the [[List_of_analog_film_exhibitors|Analog Film Exhibitors Directory]].

'''Disclaimer''': This list may contain inaccuracies - Sprocket School editors are mainly native English speakers and are creating it based on internet research, words on film leader and film can labels, and conversations with other projectionists.

* Get in touch if you have a suggestion or correction: info@sprocketschool.org


=External Resources=

* [http://home.snafu.de/ohei/ofd/moviedict_e.html Oliver Heidelbach’s Online Film Dictionary]
* [https://www.fiafnet.org/pages/E-Resources/Glossary.html FIAF’s Glossary of Filmographic Terms]
* The "Languages" sidebar to the left of every Wikipedia entry (on a desktop computer)

=Glossary=

==Belarusian==
* '''movie theater''' — Кінатэатр
* '''projector''' – проектор

==Bulgarian==
* '''celluloid''' — Целулоѝдът
* '''cinema''' – Синема
* '''movie theater''' — Киносалон

==Albanian==
* '''movie theater''' / '''cinema''' — kino / kinema / bioskopi / filmteatri

==Arabic==
* '''16mm''' – ١٦ ملم
* '''35mm''' — 35 ملم or ٣٥ ملم 
* '''70mm''' – ٧٠ ملم
* '''celluloid''' — سيلولويد
* '''a movie''' — فيلم
* '''movies''' — أفلام
* '''movie theater''' / '''cinema''' — سينما
* '''screen''' — شاشة عرض
* '''theater''' — مسرح

==Cantonese==
* '''a movie''' — 片 or 電影
* '''film''' — 菲林
* '''projection screen''' — 投影幕
* '''theater''' — 戲院
* '''projector''' — 投影機
* '''projection''' — 投射

==Catalan==
* '''movie theater''' — sala de cinema / cinema
* '''screen''' — pantalla de projecció

==Chinese==
* '''35mm''' — 35毫米 or 三十五 毫米
* '''35mm projector''' – 三十五毫米放映機
* '''a movie''' — 电影
* '''celluloid''' — 賽璐珞
* '''movie theater''' — 电影院
* '''projector''' – 放映機
* '''screening''' – 放映

==Croatian==
* '''movie theater''' — kino

==Czech==
* '''celluloid''' — celuloid
* '''movie theater''' — kino
* '''projector''' – promítačka
* '''film''' (the material; lit. "strip") – pásu

==Danish==
* '''celluloid''' — celluloid
* '''film projector''' — filmfremviser
* '''movie theater''' — biograf

==Dutch==
* '''celluloid''' — celluloid
* '''movie theater''' — bioscoop
* '''screen''' — projectiescherm

==Estonian==
* '''movie theater''' — kino

==Finnish==
* '''celluloid''' — selluloidi
* '''a movie''' — elokuva
* '''motion picture film''' — kinofilmi
* '''movie theater''' — elokuvateatteri
* '''screen''' — valkokangas

==French==
* '''photochemical''' or '''analog''' – argentique
* '''celluloid''' — celluloïd
* '''cue mark''' — repère de changement de bobine
* '''projectionist''' — projectionniste
* '''reel''' — bobine
* '''movie theater''' / '''cinema''' — salle de cinéma / cinéma

==Gaelic==
* '''movie theater''' — pictiúrlann

==German==
* '''celluloid''' — Zelluloid
* '''changeover''' — Überblendung
* '''core''' (for winding film) — Wickelkern / Bobby
* '''film projector''' — Filmprojektor / Laufbildprojektor / Projektor
* '''frame line''' — Bildstrich
* '''movie theater''' / '''cinema''' — Kino
* '''projectionist''' — Filmvorführer
* '''reel''' — Spule
* '''print''' (film) — kopie
* '''projection booth''' — Bildwerferraum
* '''screen''' — Bildwand
* '''screen''' — Leinwand
* '''screen''' — Projektionswand
* '''splicer''' — Klebepressen

==Hausa==
* '''the big screen''' — babban allon
* '''cinema''' — Sinima
* '''movie''' — fim
* '''movies''' — fina-finan / fina-finai
* '''movie theaters''' — gidajen fina-finai
* '''movie theaters''' — gidajen sinima

==Hebrew==
* '''35mm''' – 35 מ"מ
* '''celluloid''' — צלולואיד
* '''film print''' – עותק פילם
* '''movie theater''' — בית קולנוע

==Hindi==
* '''35mm''' — 35 मिमी
* '''analog''' — एनालॉग
* '''archive''' — पुरालेख
* '''a movie''' or '''film''' (the material) — फ़िल्म
* '''movie''' — चलचित्र
* '''movie projector''' — चलचित्र प्रक्षेपित्र or मूवी प्रोजेक्टर 
* '''Bollywood''' — बॉलीवुड
* '''cinema''' — सिनेमा
* '''celluloid''' — सेलुलॉइड
* '''film format''' — फिल्म प्रारूप
* '''silent films''' / '''silent film''' — मूक फिल्म / मूक फिल्मों 
* '''theater''' — थिएटर

==Hungarian==
* '''movie theater''' / '''cinema''' — filmszínház
* '''projection''' — vetités
* '''reel''' — tekercs (plural: tekercset)

==Icelandic==
* '''a film''' or '''movie''' – kvikmynd or kvikmyndina
* '''film''' – filmu
* '''movie theater''' — kvikmyndahús or bíó
* '''theater''' – leikhús

==Indonesian==
* '''celluloid''' — seluloid
* '''movie theater''' — bioskop
* '''outdoor film screening''' (specific Indonesian tradition) — layar tancep
* '''film print''' — cetakan
* '''projector''' — proyektor
* '''projectionist''' — operator projektor
* '''roll of film''' — gulungan film
* '''screen''' — layar

==Italian==
* '''celluloid''' — celluloide
* '''cue mark''' — bollini di sincronizzazione / segnali di coda
* '''movie theater''' / '''cinema''' — cinema / sala cinematografica
* '''projectionist''' — proiezionista

== Japanese ==
* '''35mm''' — 35ミリ
* '''acetate''' — アセテート
* '''analog''' — アナログ
* '''anamorphic''' — アナモフィック
* '''aperture plate''' — 開口プレート
* '''archive''' — アーカイブ
* '''aspect ratio''' — アスペクト比
* '''celluloid''' — セルロイド
* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_theater mini theater]''' — ミニシアター
* '''movie''' — 映画 or 電影 
* '''movie theater''' / '''cinema''' — 映画館
* '''projection''' —  映写
* '''projectionist''' — 映写技師
* '''projector''' (specifically movie projectors) — 映写機
* '''projector''' (more general term) — プロジェクタ
* '''reel''' — フィルム一巻 or リール
* '''screen''' — スクリーン

==Javanese==
* '''movie theater''' — biyoskup

==Korean==
* '''celluloid''' — 셀룰로이드
* '''a movie''' — 영화
* '''movie theater''' — 영화관
* '''screen''' — 스크린

==Latvian==
* '''movie theater''' — kinoteātris
* '''tape''' (as synonym for film) – lentes

==Lithuanian==
* '''cinema''' — kino
* '''film''' — filmas / filmai / filmo / filmus / filmais / filmų
* '''movie theater''' — kino teatras
* '''screenings''' — peržiūrų
* '''strip''' (like a strip of film) — juostoje

==Luxembourgish==
* '''movie theater''' — Kino

==Norwegian==
* '''movie theater''' — kino

==Macedonian==
* '''movie theater''' — Кино

==Malay==
* '''movie theater''' — pawagam / panggung wayang gambar
* '''screened''' — ditayangkan

==Persian==
* '''16mm''' – ۱۶ میلی‌متری
* '''35mm''' – ۳۵ میلی‌متری
* '''70mm''' – ۷۰ میلی‌متری
* '''acetate''' – استات
* '''cinematheque''' – سینماتک
* '''cinema''' – سینمای or سینما
* '''emulsion''' – امولسیون
* '''festival''' / '''festivals''' – جشنواره‌های / جشنواره
* '''a movie''' — فیلم
* '''movies''' – فیلم‌های or فیلم‌هایی
* '''movie theater''' — سینما
* '''screening''' – نمایش
* '''tape''' / '''tapes''' (as a synonym for films) – نوارهای / نوار
* '''theater''' / '''theaters''' – تئاتر / تئاترها

==Polish==
* '''celluloid''' — celuloid
* '''film print''' – kopii filmowej
* '''motion picture film stock''' — taśma filmowa
* '''movie theater''' / '''cinema''' — kino
* '''reels''' – rolek
* '''screen''' — ekran kinowy / ekran projekcyjny
* '''screening''' – projekcję / projekcja
* '''tape''' (as a synonym for film) – taśmą

==Portuguese==
* '''a movie''' — filme / fita / película
* '''celluloid''' — celuloide
* '''movie theater''' — sala de cinema / cinema

==Romanian==
* '''movie theater''' — cinematograf / sală de cinema

==Russian==
* '''35mm''' — 35-мм
* '''film''' / '''films''' – пленка / плёнки
* '''a movie''' / '''movies''' — Фильм / фильмы
* '''celluloid''' — Целлулоид
* '''movie theater''' — Кинотеатр or кинотеатре
* '''a print''' / '''prints''' — копия / копий
* '''a screening''' / '''screenings''' – Показ / Показы
* '''tape''' / '''tapes''' (in the sense of "a reel of film") – лента / лент

==Serbian==
* '''movie theater''' — Биоскоп / кино

==Spanish==
* '''analog''' — analógico
* '''anamorphic''' — anamorfico
* '''celluloid''' — celuloide
* '''grain''' — grano
* '''lens''' — lente
* '''a movie''' — película / film / filme / peli
* '''movie theater''' / '''cinema''' — sala de proyección / sala de cine / cine
* '''projection''' — proyección
* '''projection booth''' — cabina de proyección / cabina / caseta
* '''projectionist''' — proyeccionista / operador de cine
* '''projector''' — proyector
* '''reel''' — rollo
* '''screen''' — pantalla de proyección

==Slovak==
''Much of this information is from reading inspection forms that came from a Slovak film distributor''
* '''aspect ratio''' — obrazovy formát / formát obrazového pole
* '''audio''' — zvuk
* '''celluloid''' — celuloid
* '''film format''' — nosič
* '''film print''' — filmového materiálu
* '''inspection''' — kontrole
* '''movie theater''' / '''cinema''' — kino
* '''screening''' — predstavení
* '''soundtrack''' — stopa
* '''splice''' — nalepené ukázky
* '''projection booth''' — promitací kabina
* '''projectionist''' — promítač

==Slovenian==
* '''movie theater''' — kino

==Sudanese==
* '''movie theater''' — bioskop

==Swahili==
* '''a movie''' — filamu
* '''movie theater''' — jumba la sinema

==Swedish==
* '''aperture plate''' — bildfönster
* '''aspect ratio''' — bildformat
* '''auditorium''' — biografsalong, salong
* '''base side''' (film) — blanksida
* '''celluloid''' — celluloid
* '''changeover''' — skifte
* '''continuous sprockets''' — matarhjul
* '''core''' (for winding film) — bobin
* '''cue mark''' — skiftmärke
* '''emulsion side''' — emulsionssida
* '''film projector''' — filmprojektor, projektor
* '''focus'''  — skärpa
* '''frame line''' — bildskillnadsstreck
* '''geneva drive''' —  malteserkors
* '''ghosting''' — bländarsläp
* '''inspection''' — syning
* '''interlocking''' — samkörning
* '''intermittent sprocket''' — framkastarhjul
* '''lamphouse''' — lamphus
* '''leader''' — startsladd
* '''lens''' — objektiv
* '''magnetic sound'''  — magnetljud
* '''masking (at screen)'''  — dukmask
* '''movie''' — film
* '''movie theater''' / '''cinema''' — biograf, bio
* '''platter system'''  — non-rewind, vinda
* '''port window''' — projektionsglugg, projektionsfönster
* '''print''' — filmkopia, kopia
* '''projection booth''' — maskinrum
* '''projectionist''' — biografmaskinist, maskinist
* '''rectifier''' — likriktare
* '''reel''' — akt
* '''reel''' (spool) — filmhjul
* '''reflector''' — spegel
* '''rewind bench'''  — spolbord
* '''screen''' — filmduk, duk
* '''shutter''' — bländare
* '''silent film''' — stumfilm
* '''sound format''' — ljudformat
* '''soundtrack''' — ljudspår
* '''splice''' — skarva
* '''splicer''' — skarvapparat
* '''splicing tape''' — skarvtejp
* '''split reel''' — stickhjul
* '''subtitles''' — undertext, text
* (to) '''thread''' — ladda
* '''xenon short-arc lamp''' — xenon-kolv, xenon-lampa

==Tagalog==
* '''auditorium''' — awditoryum
* '''a movie''' — pelikula
* '''cinema''' or '''movies''' — pelikulang
* '''film''' (the material) — pilm
* '''film projector''' — aparato ng sine
* '''movie theater''' — sinehan / sine
* '''screened''' — ipinalabas
* '''show''' (a movie) — ipinapakita
* '''project''' (a movie) — ipinapalabas
* '''projector''' — prodyektor
* '''silent film''' — pelikulang tahimik

==Tamil==
* '''a movie''' — திரைப்படம்
* '''celluloid''' — செலுலாயிடு

==Thai==
* '''35mm''' — 35 มิลลิเมตร
* '''cinema''' or '''movie(s)''' — ภาพยนตร์
* '''film archive''' — หอภาพยนตร์
* '''movie theater''' — โรงภาพยนตร

==Turkish==
* '''celluloid''' — selüloit
* '''movie theater''' — sinema

==Ukrainian==
* '''35mm''' — 35 мм
* '''celluloid''' — Целулоїд
* '''movie theater''' — Кінотеа́тр

==Vietnamese==
* '''cinema''' – chiếu
* '''a movie''' — bộ phim
* '''motion picture film''' — phim nhựa
* '''movie theater''' — rạp chiếu phim
* '''screen''' — màn chiếu

==Welsh==
* '''movie theater''' — sinema

==Wolof==
* '''movie theater''' — sinemaa

==Yoruba==
* '''cinema''' — sinima
* '''movie''' — filmu

==Zulu==
* '''a movie''' — ifilimu
* '''movie theater''' / '''cinema''' — ibhayisikobho

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