Films Definition, Prefix, Suffix, Ologies and Isms, Films Information and Meaning
See also PHOTOGRAPHY.
- atmospherics
- special effects, extras, and the like used in order to establish an intended background or mood for a film.
- bioscope
- 1. a film projector of the early 20th century.
- 2. British. a motion-picture theater.
- cinematics
- the art or principles of making motion pictures.
- cinematography
- the art or technique of motion-picture photography. —cinematographer, cinematographist, n. —cinematographic, adj.
- cinemese
- language typical of the cinema, as that used in film dialogue or in film criticism.
- cinephilia
- avid moviegoing. —cinephile, n., adj.
- kinematograph, kinetograph
- a motion-picture camera.
- nickelodeon
- an early name for a cinema, so called because of the five-cent admission charge. See also MUSIC.
- praxinoscope
- an instrument that represents the effect of moving images on a screen.
- scenarist
- the writer of scenarios, story lines for motion pictures.
- tachyscope
- a type of kinescope that presents the effect of moving pictures by use of a rotating glass plate with images attached to it.
- vitascope
- an early form of motion-picture projector.
- zoopraxiscope
- an early form of motion-picture projector.