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.
Americans like to add some small modifications or changes to words so that their language sounds more leisure, casual or layback. 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”.
A movie theater may also be referred to as a movie house, film house, film theater, cinema or picture house. In the US, theater has long been the preferred spelling, while in the UK, Australia, Canada and elsewhere it is theatre.
Movie theater is used in US English to refer to the building in which movies or films are shown. In UK English, this building is instead called a “cinema.” “Movie theatre” is rarely used.
No. British English speakers say "at the cinema", but most American English speakers say "at the movies". You're confusing the difference between the way the two dialects refer to hospitals, which is just a peculiarity. It doesn't necessarily apply to all other kinds of places you might be 'at'.
The idea is, in America one would write movie theater and in Great Britain, we'd say movie theatre. But an interesting fact is that "movie theater" is an American term. In Great Britain, you're more likely to hear one say, "Going to the Cinema," or "Going to the pictures."
Most British people talk about “films”, when referring to the actual film itself. But when talking about going to see a film (Going to a movie or to the movies) we talk of “going to the cinema” or, colloquially, to “the flicks” or “the pictures” (older people especially use this one).
A cinema is a place where cinematic films are shown. ('Movies' in American English). A 'Movie theatre' is an American expression equivalent to the English 'Cinema' (See above).
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 American movie industry was named "Hollywood" after the city where the film industry took root in America, because almost all American movie studios were concentrated in the L.A./Hollywood area, it was almost inevitable that such a name would develop, just as the U.S. live theatre industry was named after Broadway ...
Borrowed from French cinéma, clipping of cinématographe (term coined by the Lumière brothers in the 1890s), from Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, “movement”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write, record”).
The first to present projected moving pictures to a paying audience were the Lumière brothers in December 1895 in Paris, France. They used a device of their own making, the Cinématographe, which was a camera, a projector and a film printer all in one.
A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature) is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program.
British popcorn is commonly referred to as "candyfloss" or "cotton candy" in the United Kingdom. We call it “corn of the pop.” It's a play on Knight of the realm. “I pledge my service and my loyalty, body and soul, to my Lord. When the clarion call is sounded, I will ride out and fight in the name of liege and Lady.
The Americans say movie because it is short for “Moving Pictures” which is the right name for them, The name "film" originally referred to the thin layer of photochemical emulsion on the celluloid strip that used to be the actual medium for recording and displaying motion pictures.
Here in Scotland they say fillums. “Cinema”, to mean a place where movies are shown. “Theatre” (note the spelling) in British English means a place where live actors perform a play on stage. “Movie theatre” would be understood, but isn't commonly used.
Is it illegal to record movies in the theater in India?
Recording or helping a person record any film that is being exhibited at a cinema theatre using audio-visual devices has been prohibited under the Bill. “The film industry is facing a loss of Rs 20,000 crore annually because of piracy,” Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said in the Rajya Sabha.
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.
Tic-tac-toe (American English), noughts and crosses (Commonwealth English), or Xs and Os (Canadian or Irish English) is a paper-and-pencil game for two players who take turns marking the spaces in a three-by-three grid with X or O.
World cinema is a term in film theory that refers to films made outside of the American motion picture industry, particularly those in opposition to the aesthetics and values of commercial American cinema.
In 1895, the brothers patented the cinématographe (from which we get the term cinema), a lightweight film projector that also functioned as a camera and printer.
