cine
(ˈsɪnɪ)
colloq. or commercial abbrev. of cinema or cinematographic used in comb., as cine-art, cine-camera, cine-film, cine-flash, cine-goer, cine-matinée, cine-negative, cine-photo(graphy), cine-projector; cine-vaˈriety, a variety entertainment including a cinematographic show. Cf. F. ciné (1917), occas. used in English.
| 1928 Daily Express 9 July 9 Cine-art consists of adding smoothness to the appeal made to eye, mind, and emotion. |
| 1920 V. Steer Secr. Cinema 25 Crowds of ebullient amateurs all so eager to ‘strut their little hour’ in front of the cine camera. 1950 Engineering 24 Feb. 226/3 Recording deformations with a cine-camera. |
| 1897 C. M. Hepworth Animated Photogr. 83 Hints and cautions: care of cinefilms, etc. 1962 Unesco Bull. for Libraries XVI. 1 In 1889 T. A. Edison developed the 35 mm. cine film as it is still used today. |
| 1951 Catal. Exhibits Festival of Britain 48/1 Ciné-flash carton. |
| 1921 Oxford Times 4 Mar. 4 One of the oldest and most accomplished favourites of the Cine-goer. 1929 Sunday Dispatch 13 Jan. 16 When the films..are exhibited to the vast crowd of ciné-goers. 1932 Ann. Reg. 1931 47 The more intelligent cinegoers were catered for by two stage successes transferred almost without alteration to the screen. |
| 1908 Westm. Gaz. 6 Oct. 12/2 ‘Cine-matinee’ at the Pavilion. 1909 Webster, Cine-negative, a continuous film of chronophotograph negatives taken in a cinematograph. 1937 Auden & MacNeice Lett. from Iceland xii. 194 They..had the time of their lives taking cine-photos. |
| 1920 V. Steer Secr. Cinema 108 Aerial cinephotography. 1929 Wheeler Amateur Cinematogr. 87 A ciné-projector works on the same principle as a ciné-camera. |
| 1928 Daily Express 20 Jan. 1, I am still looking for sites for new cine-variety theatres. 1928 Daily News 7 Nov. 6/5 He agrees with Mr. Arnold Bennett in condemning talking pictures; but in favouring cine-variety he is opposed to Mr. Bennett. |