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'''A glossary of common words and technical terminology used by projectionists and film exhibitors — in many languages.''' | '''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. | 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. | '''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. | ||
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=Glossary= | =Glossary= | ||
==Amharic (Ethiopia)== | |||
* '''35mm''' – 35ሚሜ | |||
* '''celluloid''' – ሴሊሎይድ | |||
* '''cinema''' – ሲኒማ or ሲንማ | |||
* '''film''' – ፊልም | |||
* '''theater''' – ቲያትር | |||
==Belarusian== | ==Belarusian== | ||
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==Arabic== | ==Arabic== | ||
* '''16mm''' – ١٦ ملم | |||
* '''35mm''' — 35 ملم or ٣٥ ملم | * '''35mm''' — 35 ملم or ٣٥ ملم | ||
* '''35mm film''' – فيلم ٣٥ملم | |||
* '''70mm''' – ٧٠ ملم | |||
* '''celluloid''' — سيلولويد | * '''celluloid''' — سيلولويد | ||
* '''a movie''' — فيلم | * '''a movie''' — فيلم | ||
* '''movies''' — أفلام | * '''movies''' — أفلام | ||
* '''movie theater''' / '''cinema''' — سينما | * '''movie theater''' / '''cinema''' — سينما or صالة سينمائية or just صالة | ||
* '''screen''' — شاشة عرض | * '''screen''' — شاشة عرض | ||
* '''theater''' — مسرح | * '''theater''' — مسرح | ||
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==Chinese== | ==Chinese== | ||
* '''35mm''' — 35毫米 | * '''16mm''' – 16毫米 or 十六 毫米 | ||
* '''a movie''' — 电影 | * '''35mm''' — 35毫米 or sometimes 35釐米 or 三十五 毫米 | ||
* '''35mm projector''' – 三十五毫米放映機 | |||
* '''a movie''' — 电影 or 電影 | |||
* '''celluloid''' — 賽璐珞 | * '''celluloid''' — 賽璐珞 | ||
* '''movie theater''' — 电影院 | * '''movie theater''' — 电影院 | ||
* '''projector''' – 放映機 | |||
* '''screening''' – 放映 | |||
==Croatian== | ==Croatian== | ||
* '''35mm film''' – 35mm vrpci | |||
* '''movie theater''' — kino | * '''movie theater''' — kino | ||
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* '''celluloid''' — celuloid | * '''celluloid''' — celuloid | ||
* '''movie theater''' — kino | * '''movie theater''' — kino | ||
* '''projector''' – promítačka | |||
* '''film''' (the material; lit. "strip") – pásu | |||
==Danish== | ==Danish== | ||
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==Finnish== | ==Finnish== | ||
* '''celluloid''' — selluloidi | * '''celluloid''' — selluloidi | ||
* '''film print''' – filmikopiona / filmikopio | |||
* '''a movie''' — elokuva | * '''a movie''' — elokuva | ||
* '''motion picture film''' — kinofilmi | * '''motion picture film''' — kinofilmi | ||
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* '''projectionist''' — projectionniste | * '''projectionist''' — projectionniste | ||
* '''reel''' — bobine | * '''reel''' — bobine | ||
* '''screening''' – projection | |||
* '''movie theater''' / '''cinema''' — salle de cinéma / cinéma | * '''movie theater''' / '''cinema''' — salle de cinéma / cinéma | ||
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==German== | ==German== | ||
* '''analog''' – analoge | |||
* '''celluloid''' — Zelluloid | * '''celluloid''' — Zelluloid | ||
* '''changeover''' — Überblendung | * '''changeover''' — Überblendung | ||
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* '''roll of film''' — gulungan film | * '''roll of film''' — gulungan film | ||
* '''screen''' — layar | * '''screen''' — layar | ||
* '''film screening''' – penayangan film | |||
* '''tape''' (like "film strip") – pita | |||
==Italian== | ==Italian== | ||
* '''celluloid''' — celluloide | * '''celluloid''' — celluloide | ||
* '''cue mark''' — bollini di sincronizzazione / segnali di coda | * '''cue mark''' — bollini di sincronizzazione / segnali di coda | ||
* '''film''' – pellicola | |||
* '''movie theater''' / '''cinema''' — cinema / sala cinematografica | * '''movie theater''' / '''cinema''' — cinema / sala cinematografica | ||
* '''projectionist''' — proiezionista | * '''projectionist''' — proiezionista | ||
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* '''movie''' — 映画 or 電影 | * '''movie''' — 映画 or 電影 | ||
* '''movie theater''' / '''cinema''' — 映画館 | * '''movie theater''' / '''cinema''' — 映画館 | ||
* '''print''' – プリント | |||
* '''projection''' — 映写 | * '''projection''' — 映写 | ||
* '''projectionist''' — 映写技師 | * '''projectionist''' — 映写技師 | ||
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* '''reel''' — フィルム一巻 or リール | * '''reel''' — フィルム一巻 or リール | ||
* '''screen''' — スクリーン | * '''screen''' — スクリーン | ||
* '''screening''' – 上映 | |||
==Javanese== | ==Javanese== | ||
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* '''movie theater''' — 영화관 | * '''movie theater''' — 영화관 | ||
* '''screen''' — 스크린 | * '''screen''' — 스크린 | ||
* '''screening''' – 상영 | |||
==Latvian== | ==Latvian== | ||
* '''movie theater''' — kinoteātris | * '''movie theater''' — kinoteātris | ||
* '''tape''' (as synonym for film) – lentes | |||
==Lithuanian== | ==Lithuanian== | ||
* '''cinema''' — kino | * '''celluloid''' – celiulioidinės | ||
* '''film''' — filmas / filmai / filmo / filmus / filmais / filmų | * '''cinema''' — kino / kinui / kinas | ||
* '''film''' — filmas / filmai / filmo / filmus / filmais / filmų / filmams | |||
* '''movie theater''' — kino teatras | * '''movie theater''' — kino teatras | ||
* '''screenings''' — peržiūrų | * '''screenings''' — peržiūrų | ||
* '''strip''' (like a strip of film) — juostoje | * '''strip''' (like a strip of film) — juostos or juostas or juostų or juostoje or juostomis | ||
==Luxembourgish== | ==Luxembourgish== | ||
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* '''movies''' – فیلمهای or فیلمهایی | * '''movies''' – فیلمهای or فیلمهایی | ||
* '''movie theater''' — سینما | * '''movie theater''' — سینما | ||
* '''projector''' – پروژکتور | |||
* '''screening''' – نمایش | * '''screening''' – نمایش | ||
* '''tape''' / '''tapes''' (as a synonym for films) – نوارهای / نوار | * '''tape''' / '''tapes''' (as a synonym for films) – نوارهای / نوار | ||
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==Polish== | ==Polish== | ||
* '''celluloid''' — celuloid | * '''celluloid''' — celuloid | ||
* '''film print''' – kopii filmowej | |||
* '''motion picture film stock''' — taśma filmowa | * '''motion picture film stock''' — taśma filmowa | ||
* '''movie theater''' / '''cinema''' — kino | * '''movie theater''' / '''cinema''' — kino | ||
* '''reels''' – rolek | |||
* '''screen''' — ekran kinowy / ekran projekcyjny | * '''screen''' — ekran kinowy / ekran projekcyjny | ||
* '''screening''' – projekcję / projekcja | |||
* '''tape''' (as a synonym for film) – taśmą | |||
==Portuguese== | ==Portuguese== | ||
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==Russian== | ==Russian== | ||
* '''35mm''' — 35-мм | * '''35mm''' — 35-мм | ||
* '''analog''' – аналогового | |||
* '''film''' / '''films''' – пленка / плёнки | * '''film''' / '''films''' – пленка / плёнки | ||
* '''film projection''' – кинопоказа | |||
* '''a movie''' / '''movies''' — Фильм / фильмы | * '''a movie''' / '''movies''' — Фильм / фильмы | ||
* '''celluloid''' — Целлулоид | * '''celluloid''' — Целлулоид | ||
* '''movie theater''' — Кинотеатр or кинотеатре | * '''movie theater''' — Кинотеатр or кинотеатре | ||
* '''movie projector''' / '''projector''' – кинопроектора / проектора | |||
* '''a print''' / '''prints''' — копия / копий | * '''a print''' / '''prints''' — копия / копий | ||
* '''a screening''' / '''screenings''' – Показ / Показы | * '''a screening''' / '''screenings''' – Показ / Показы | ||
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* '''anamorphic''' — anamorfico | * '''anamorphic''' — anamorfico | ||
* '''celluloid''' — celuloide | * '''celluloid''' — celuloide | ||
* '''film''' (lit. tape) – cinta | |||
* '''grain''' — grano | * '''grain''' — grano | ||
* '''lens''' — lente | * '''lens''' — lente | ||
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==Thai== | ==Thai== | ||
* '''35mm''' — 35 มิลลิเมตร | * '''35mm''' — 35 มิลลิเมตร or 35 มม | ||
* '''cinema''' or '''movie(s)''' — ภาพยนตร์ | * '''cinema''' or '''movie(s)''' — ภาพยนตร์ or หนัง or ฟิล์ม | ||
* '''film archive''' — หอภาพยนตร์ | * '''film archive''' — หอภาพยนตร์ | ||
* '''film system''' (as in "film projection system") – ระบบฟิล์ม | |||
* '''movie theater''' — โรงภาพยนตร | * '''movie theater''' — โรงภาพยนตร | ||
* '''project''' – ฉาย | |||
==Turkish== | ==Turkish== | ||
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==Vietnamese== | ==Vietnamese== | ||
* '''cinema''' – chiếu | |||
* '''a movie''' — bộ phim | * '''a movie''' — bộ phim | ||
* '''motion picture film''' — phim nhựa | * '''motion picture film''' — phim nhựa | ||
Latest revision as of 19:56, 25 January 2022
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 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
- Oliver Heidelbach’s Online Film Dictionary
- FIAF’s Glossary of Filmographic Terms
- The "Languages" sidebar to the left of every Wikipedia entry (on a desktop computer)
Glossary
Amharic (Ethiopia)
- 35mm – 35ሚሜ
- celluloid – ሴሊሎይድ
- cinema – ሲኒማ or ሲንማ
- film – ፊልም
- theater – ቲያትር
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
- 35mm film – فيلم ٣٥ملم
- 70mm – ٧٠ ملم
- celluloid — سيلولويد
- a movie — فيلم
- movies — أفلام
- movie theater / cinema — سينما or صالة سينمائية or just صالة
- 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
- 16mm – 16毫米 or 十六 毫米
- 35mm — 35毫米 or sometimes 35釐米 or 三十五 毫米
- 35mm projector – 三十五毫米放映機
- a movie — 电影 or 電影
- celluloid — 賽璐珞
- movie theater — 电影院
- projector – 放映機
- screening – 放映
Croatian
- 35mm film – 35mm vrpci
- 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
- film print – filmikopiona / filmikopio
- 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
- screening – projection
- movie theater / cinema — salle de cinéma / cinéma
Gaelic
- movie theater — pictiúrlann
German
- analog – analoge
- 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
- film screening – penayangan film
- tape (like "film strip") – pita
Italian
- celluloid — celluloide
- cue mark — bollini di sincronizzazione / segnali di coda
- film – pellicola
- 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
- mini theater — ミニシアター
- movie — 映画 or 電影
- movie theater / cinema — 映画館
- print – プリント
- 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
- screening – 上映
Javanese
- movie theater — biyoskup
Korean
- celluloid — 셀룰로이드
- a movie — 영화
- movie theater — 영화관
- screen — 스크린
- screening – 상영
Latvian
- movie theater — kinoteātris
- tape (as synonym for film) – lentes
Lithuanian
- celluloid – celiulioidinės
- cinema — kino / kinui / kinas
- film — filmas / filmai / filmo / filmus / filmais / filmų / filmams
- movie theater — kino teatras
- screenings — peržiūrų
- strip (like a strip of film) — juostos or juostas or juostų or juostoje or juostomis
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
- projector – پروژکتور
- 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
- analog – аналогового
- film / films – пленка / плёнки
- film projection – кинопоказа
- a movie / movies — Фильм / фильмы
- celluloid — Целлулоид
- movie theater — Кинотеатр or кинотеатре
- movie projector / projector – кинопроектора / проектора
- 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
- film (lit. tape) – cinta
- 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 or 35 มม
- cinema or movie(s) — ภาพยนตร์ or หนัง or ฟิล์ม
- film archive — หอภาพยนตร์
- film system (as in "film projection system") – ระบบฟิล์ม
- movie theater — โรงภาพยนตร
- project – ฉาย
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