International film glossary

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.

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

A

Acetate

• Japanese - アセテート

Analog

• Japanese - アナログ
• Spanish - analógico

Anamorphic

• Japanese - アナモフィック
• Spanish - anamorfico

Aperture plate

• Japanese - 開口プレート

Archive

• Japanese - アーカイブ

Aspect ratio

• Slovak - obrazovy formát / formát obrazového pole
• Japanese - アスペクト比

Audio

• Slovak - zvuk

Auditorium

—see also Movie theater

C

Celluloid

• Spanish - celuloide

Cinema

— see also Movie theater

F

Film

• — see also Movie
• — see also Film print

Film format

• Slovak - nosič

Film gate

— see Gate

Film gauge

— see Film format

Film print

• Slovak - filmového materiálu

G

Grain

• Spanish - grano

I

Inspection

• Slovak - kontrole

L

Lens

• Spanish - lente

M

Movie

• Japanese - 映画

Movie theater

• Albanian - kino / kinema / bioskopi / filmteatri
• Arabic - سينما
• Azerbaijani - kinoteatr
• Bambara - sinima
• Belarusian - Кінатэатр
• Bulgarian - Киносалон
• Cheyenne - môxe’a’xémâhéó’o
• Chinese - 电影院
• Croation - kino
• Czech - kino
• Catalan - sala de cinema / cinema
• Danish - biograf
• Dutch - bioscoop
• Estonian - kino
• Esperanto - kinejo
• Finnish - elokuvateatteri
• French - salle de cinéma / cinéma
• Gaelic - pictiúrlann
• German - Kino
• Hebrew - בית קולנוע
• Hungarian - filmszínház
• Icelandic - kvikmyndahús
• Indonesian - bioskop
• Italian - cinema / sala cinematografica
• Japanese - 映画館
• Javanese - biyoskup
• Korean - 영화관
• Ladino - Filmo
• Latin - cinemateum
• Latvian - kinoteātris
• Lithuanian - kino teatras
• Luxembourgish - Kino
• Macedonian - Кино
• Malay - pawagam / panggung wayang gambar
• Mongolian - Кинотеатр
• Norwegian - kino
• Pashto - سينما
• Persian - سینما
• Polish - kino
• Portuguese - sala de cinema / cinema
• Romanian - cinematograf / sală de cinema
• Russian - Кинотеатр
• Serbian - Биоскоп / кино
• Slovak - kino
• Slovenian - kino
• Spanish - sala de proyección / sala de cine / cine
• Sudanese - bioskop
• Swahili - jumba la sinema
• Swedish - biograf
• Tagalog - sinehan
• Thai - โรงภาพยนตร
• Turkish - sinema
• Ukranian - Кінотеа́тр
• Uzbek - kinematógraf
• Vietnamese - rạp chiếu phim
• Welsh - sinema
• Wolof - sinemaa
• Yiddish - קינא
• Zulu - ibhayisikobho

P

Projection

• Hungarian - vetités
• Japanese - 映写
• Spanish - proyección

Projection booth

• Slovak - promitací kabina
• Spanish - cabina de proyección / cabina / caseta

Projectionist

• French - projectionniste
• German - Filmvorführer
• Italian - proiezionista
• Japanese - 映写技師
• Slovak - promítač
• Spanish - proyeccionista / operador de cine
• Swedish - biografmaskinist

Projector

• Danish - filmfremviser
• Japanese - 映写機 (note: specifically means movie projectors)
• Japanese - プロジェクター (note: more general term)
• Spanish - proyector

R

Reel

• French - bobine
• Hungarian - tekercs (plural: tekercset)
• Japanese - フィルム一巻／リール
• Spanish - rollo

S

Screen

• Arabic - شاشة عرض
• Catalan - pantalla de projecció
• Dutch - projectiescherm
• Finnish - valkokangas
• German - Bildwand
• German - Leinwand
• German - Projektionswand
• Japanese - スクリーン
• Korean - 스크린
• Polish - ekran kinowy / ekran projekcyjny
• Spanish - pantalla de proyección
• Swedish - filmduk (plural: filmduken)
• Vietnamese - màn chiếu

Screening

• Slovak - predstavení

Soundtrack

• Slovak - stopa

Splice

• Slovak - nalepené ukázky