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cinema|ˈsɪnɪmə|
[Abbreviation of cinematograph n., after F. cinéma; see also kinema.]
A popular abbreviation, and now the usual form, of cinematograph; hence (short for cinema hall, etc.), a building in which cinematographic films are exhibited.
[1899H. V. Hopwood Living Pictures 184 The Dom-Martin Cinéma is said to possess a spring-escapement mechanism.] 1909D. Sladen Trag. Pyramids 90 There were not many better cinematographs, for a woman to look at, than the cinema—that was the form in which she used the word. 1910Daily Chron. 7 Mar. 6/7 ‘Cinematograph’—which has just been cut down in a glaring advertisement to ‘cinema’. 1913V. Steer Romance Cinema 12 The so-called ‘comic’ films from France which one sees on the cinema. 1913Punch 19 Feb. 147 Our Village Cinema. 1914Scotsman 17 Sept. 1/5 Princes Cinema. 131 Princes Street. 1922D. H. Lawrence England, my England 256 The cinema was just going in and the queues were tailing down the road. 1937Evening News 15 Feb. 12/7 The first cinema theatre proper in London opened its doors in 1896... Like most of the early cinemas it was a converted shop. 1955Times 13 May 13/3 The report submits as ‘surprising’ that 22·5 per cent of those questioned went to the cinema.
b. Cinema films collectively, esp. considered as an art-form; the production of such films. Also, material suitable for presentation in or as a cinema film.
1918Webster Add., Cinema,..moving pictures collectively. 1921Spectator 31 Aug. 205/1 The cinema is a democratic entertainment..which abounds in purely visual effects. 1923J. Agate Half-past Eight 65 The cinema is undoubtedly the biggest educational event since the invention of printing. 1938New Statesman 15 Jan. 82/1 If anyone doubts that France now leads the world in the production of serious cinema, he should see the three French films listed above. 1952Sunday Times 25 May 7/7 It would be foolish to try to judge ‘Mourning Becomes Electra’ (Carlton) as a piece of cinema. Ibid., None of this amounts to cinema. 1959Observer 8 Mar. 16/7 The pity is that cinema, as an art, was and is capable of a greatness that TV has never approached.
c. attrib., as cinema camera, cinema film, cinema-goer, cinema-going ppl. a. and vbl. n., cinema hall, cinema play, cinema rights (pl.), cinema screen, cinema show, cinema star, cinema theatre; cinema organ Mus., a type of organ specially adapted for use in cinemas, usu. having extra percussion stops and other effects; hence cinema organist.
a1930D. H. Lawrence Etruscan Places (1932) iv. 127 A cinema-camera, taking its succession of instantaneous snaps.
1912Field 14 Sept. 548/2 A cinema film of myself boxing a round or two. 1921A. Huxley Let. 28 June (1969) 198 The days flit past here like pictures on a cinema film.
1920Q. Rev. July 182 Young cinema-goers. 1956H. Grisewood in A. Pryce-Jones New Outl. Mod. Knowl. 414 The classics of the screen exist only in the memory of the cinema-goer.
1927Melody Maker Sept. 931/1 This menace to the cinema-going public. 1963Times 1 Feb. 9/2 No one else can make seven and sixpence-worth of cinemagoing go such a long way.
1913V. Steer Romance Cinema 124 The cinema hall will become the social club of the future. 1920Q. Rev. July 177 Prospectuses of new producing companies and cinema halls. 1927G. Tootell (title) How to play the cinema organ. 1927Melody Maker Sept. 940 (Advt.), Big things are ahead of the cinema organist who sets to work to master the technique of Wurlitzer organs. 1954Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 5) II. 304/2 The average cinema organ is quite a small instrument, having only about ten extended ranks of pipes.
1913V. Steer Romance Cinema 28 The first cinema play produced in England was, I believe, ‘The Soldier's Courtship’. 1914F. M. Ford Let. 22 Dec. (1965) 60 The Cinema Rights of ‘Romance’. 1920V. Steer Secr. Cinema 49 {pstlg}1500 is a fairly common figure to pay for the cinema rights of a book. 1929H. G. Wells King who was King i. §1. 11 Through a happy term of years ‘world cinema rights’ distended the income of every well-known novelist and playwright.
1919G. B. Shaw Heartbreak House Pref. p. xxv, The mimic deaths of the cinema screen. 1959J. L. Austin Sense & Sensibilia (1962) i. 4 Pictures on the cinema-screen.
1913V. Steer Romance Cinema 112 First and foremost the cinema show is a means of amusement. 1916‘Boyd Cable’ Doing their Bit vi. 91 The town, with its stores and shops, its churches and cinema-show.
1913V. Steer Romance Cinema 43 To become a cinema ‘star’ is not an easy matter. Ibid. 29 Provincial cinema theatres. 1915‘Bartimeus’ Tall Ship iv. 69 The advertisement of a cinema theatre occupied a hoarding near the landing place. |