| 释义 |
† telecinema Obs. exc. Hist.|tɛlɪˈsɪnɪmə|
Also telekinema and with hyphen.
[f. tele- 2 + cinema, kinema.]
1. = prec.
1930Moseley & Chapple Television viii. 93 An extraordinary situation in the fascinating history of television was the development of what is now called the tele-cinema.
2. (Also with capital initial.) The name of a building in the Festival of Britain of 1951 in which television programmes could be shown on a large screen as in a cinema; the system or process involved in producing this display.
1951I. Cox South Bank Exhibition 83 The Telecinema is the first cinema in the world to be specially designed and built for the showing of both films and television. 1952Times 6 Feb. 4/7 The Minister had suggested that, except for the Telekinema and possibly, also, the Waterloo Road administration blocks, none of the festival buildings should be retained unless the council wished to take them over. 1953A. K. C. Ottaway Educ. & Society v. 81 Many new means of mechanical amusement have been created. We have the telecinema; shall we even yet have the ‘Feelies’. 1976Oxf. Compan. Film 495/2 National Film Theatre, a club cinema established and run by the British Film Institute, took over and rebuilt the Telekinema. 1977M. Strickland A. Thirkell x. 157 Angela treated the events [of the Festival of Britain, 1951] with the greatest scorn, but she agreed nevertheless to be interviewed on the ‘telecinema’. |