kinema
(ˈkɪnɪmə, kaɪˈniːmə)
Variant of cinema with initial k from the Greek original. Now rare.
| 1914 Evening News 29 Sept. 4/5 It was my first step in the path of the kinema actor. 1921 19th Cent. Apr. 672 Properly handled, the Kinema could be made to endear the two races to one another. 1928 Western Morning News 28 Dec., The new kinema on the site of the old Post Office at Totnes. 1942 Electronic Engin. XIV. 708/1 The commercialisation of the sound film in the kinema over twelve years ago. 1954 A. Cornwell-Clyne 3-D Kinematogr. 8 Commercial kinemas had only exhibited coloured short films which had to be viewed through spectacles. 1974 Listener 22 Aug. 252/1 A period's grandest buildings..indicate a community's current concern: medieval castles..1920s Kinemas. |
b. attrib. and
Comb., as
kinema-camera,
kinema drama,
kinema film,
kinema producer,
kinema projection,
kinema theatre;
ˈKinemacolo(u)r, proprietary name of a method of producing motion pictures in the natural colours by means of revolving colour screens.
| 1927 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Suppl.) 2 Dec. p. xvi/2 The kinema-camera. |
| 1909 Trade Marks Jrnl. 19 May 830 Kinema Color..Kinematographic apparatus and photographic films bearing finished pictures in natural colours for use therewith. Charles Urban,..Wardour Street, London; manufacturer. 1909 Daily Chron. 3 June 7/2 ‘Kinema-color’, or animated scenes in nature's actual tints. 1914 Times 29 Jan. 4/3 These lectures might perhaps be illustrated by kinemacolour photographs. 1918 H. Croy How Motion Pictures are Made 288 By the Kinemacolor process colored motion pictures were made of the Coronation. 1949 R. Low Hist. Brit. Film 1906–14 iii. 101 As the sheer novelty of colours wore thin the company perforce became more ambitious and in September 1910 it was announced that the first drama in Kinemacolor was being filmed. |
| 1916 A. Bakshy Path Mod. Russ. Stage 221 The kinema-drama raises some of the most fundamental problems of art. |
| 1915 Truth 6 Oct. 567/1 A levy of 1d. per foot on all imported kinema film. 1929 Melody Maker Apr. 418/2 A mixed programme of kinema films and variety acts. |
| 1921 19th Cent. Apr. 672 The Kinema⁓producers in California. |
| 1916 Chambers's Jrnl. 26 Feb. 207/1 [The lamp's] suitability for kinema projection. |
| 1929 Melody Maker Apr. 418/2 In nearly all kinema theatres which have been converted from Music Halls. 1932 B. B. Hampton Hist. Movies xii. 257 Tally..sold his Kinema Theater and First National franchise to Gore Brothers and Lesser. |