Re: `Kinema' or `Cinema' ? Brooksie wrote: `Kinema' pops up in around 1910-11, is then used interchangeably with `cinema' - or, if anything, becomes more common - before dying out in the late 1940s. From then onwards (and quite possibly, the whole time), there seems a tendency to use it slightly pretentiously.
In 1922, Sir Archibald and Lady Weigall purchased the Victoria Hotel ruins including the sports pavilion and, with the assistance of Captain Carleton Cole Allport, the pavilion was transformed into a cinema which opened its doors on Monday September 11th 1922 at 7pm.
However, some US theaters opt to use the British spelling in their own names, a practice supported by the National Association of Theatre Owners, while apart from Anglophone North America most English-speaking countries use the term cinema /ˈsɪnɪmə/, alternatively spelled and pronounced kinema /ˈkɪnɪmə/.
What is the difference between a cinema and a theater?
A theater is any building devoted to performances, be they live, on film, concert, recital, or any other purpose including a live audience. Cinema is a word referring to movies, and can be used as shorthand for a theater built specifically for showing films.
Cinema is from the French cinématographe which comes in part from the greek kinema, meaning movement. So, cinema is really just another word meaning moving picture. It also has come to mean more generally the process of film-making and also the building where films are shown.
The word was earlier in English in its fuller form, cinematograph (1896), but this has been displaced by the short form. Other old words for such a system were vitascope (Edison, 1895), animatograph (1898). The meaning "movies collectively, especially as an art form" recorded by 1914.
Entertainment was still limited in the early part of 20th century. Movie theaters were very opulent and grand to the point that they were called “movie palaces” and “picture palaces”.
The first public Kinetoscope demonstration took place in 1893. By 1894 the Kinetoscope was a commercial success, with public parlours established around the world. The first to present projected moving pictures to a paying audience were the Lumière brothers in December 1895 in Paris, France.
Greek "kinumai" ("to move, be in motion, go") was joined with "grapho" ("write, inscribe") to describe the new machines that could write in motion (kinematograph, kinegraph, et al.), not just with light (photograph), so we got kinematography that became cinematography and kinema that became cinema.
By the way, in daily colloquial American English, the place that people go to see movies (or films) is called a “movie theater”, instead of a “cinema”. “Film” and “cinema” are considered formal language.
It's more common to say cinema in Britain than in the United States, but any English speaker will know what you're talking about if you ask, "Want to go to the cinema?" You can also use cinema to talk about the film industry and its history: "This is my favorite film in all of American cinema." The word was first used ...
Popcorn became synonymous with movie-going during the Great Depression in the 1930s. At that time, people were looking for affordable forms of entertainment, and movie theaters provided a welcome escape from the hardships of everyday life.
In 1895, Louis and Auguste Lumière gave birth to the big screen thanks to their revolutionary camera and projector, the Cinématographe. Auguste and Louis Lumière invented a camera that could record, develop, and project film, but they regarded their creation as little more than a curious novelty.
Stanley renamed Durwood Theatres as American Royal Cinema on October 1, 1968, after the American Royal livestock and horse show, but the latter's producers sought an injunction, and the name was changed to American Multi-Cinema, Inc.
The first commercially produced film in natural color was A Visit to the Seaside (1908). The eight-minute British short film used the Kinemacolor process to capture a series of shots of the Brighton Southern England seafront.
The word “movie” is an Americanism, and is more common in North America. People in England, all over the UK, and most other English-speaking countries say “film”. The word “film” is also used in North America, but has a more limited meaning, with a connotation of better quality.
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However, the origins of Hollywood actually lie in British cinema. In the early days of cinema, most films were made in Europe. However, due to the high costs of production and lack of technological advancement at the time, many films were shot on location in America - which became known as Hollywood.
