International film glossary

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

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• 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.

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

• 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