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A glossary of common words and technical terminology used by projectionists and film exhibitors — in many languages.

This glossary is intended to help anyone searching for information about analog film projection and exhibition locate resources in non-English languages.

Disclaimer: This list may contain inaccuracies - Sprocket School editors are mainly native English speakers and are creating it based on internet research, words on film leader and film can labels, and conversations with other projectionists.

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Glossary

Azerbaijani

  • movie theater — kinoteatr

Bambara

  • movie theater — sinima

Belarusian

  • movie theater — Кінатэатр

Bulgarian

  • celluloid — Целулоѝдът
  • movie theater — Киносалон

Albanian

  • movie theater / cinema — kino / kinema / bioskopi / filmteatri

Arabic

  • celluloid — سيلولويد
  • a movie — فيلم
  • movie theater / cinema — سينما
  • screen — شاشة عرض

Cantonese

  • a movie — 片 or 電影
  • film — 菲林
  • projection screen — 投影幕
  • theater — 戲院
  • projector — 投影機
  • projection — 投射

Catalan

  • movie theater — sala de cinema / cinema
  • screen — pantalla de projecció

Chinese

  • 35mm — 35毫米
  • a movie — 电影
  • celluloid — 賽璐珞
  • movie theater — 电影院

Croatian

  • movie theater — kino

Czech

  • celluloid — celuloid
  • movie theater — kino

Danish

  • celluloid — celluloid
  • film projector — filmfremviser
  • movie theater — biograf

Dutch

  • celluloid — celluloid
  • movie theater — bioscoop
  • screen — projectiescherm

Estonian

  • movie theater — kino

Finnish

  • celluloid — selluloidi
  • a movie — elokuva
  • motion picture film — kinofilmi
  • movie theater — elokuvateatteri
  • screen — valkokangas

French

  • celluloid — celluloïd
  • cue mark — repère de changement de bobine
  • projectionist — projectionniste
  • reel — bobine
  • movie theater / cinema — salle de cinéma / cinéma

Gaelic

  • movie theater — pictiúrlann

German

  • celluloid — Zelluloid
  • changeover — Überblendung
  • core (for winding film) — Wickelkern / Bobby
  • film projector — Filmprojektor / Laufbildprojektor / Projektor
  • frame line — Bildstrich
  • movie theater / cinema — Kino
  • projectionist — Filmvorführer
  • reel — Spule
  • print (film) — kopie
  • projection booth — Bildwerferraum
  • screen — Bildwand
  • screen — Leinwand
  • screen — Projektionswand
  • splicer — Klebepressen

Hausa

  • the big screen — babban allon
  • cinema — Sinima
  • movie — fim
  • movies — fina-finan / fina-finai
  • movie theaters — gidajen fina-finai
  • movie theaters — gidajen sinima

Hebrew

  • celluloid — צלולואיד
  • movie theater — בית קולנוע

Hindi

  • 35mm — 35 ​मिमी
  • analog — एनालॉग
  • archive — पुरालेख
  • a movie or film (the material) — फ़िल्म
  • movie — चलचित्र
  • movie projector — चलचित्र प्रक्षेपित्र or मूवी प्रोजेक्टर
  • Bollywood — बॉलीवुड
  • cinema — सिनेमा
  • celluloid — सेलुलॉइड
  • film format — फिल्म प्रारूप
  • silent films / silent film — मूक फिल्म / मूक फिल्मों
  • theater — थिएटर

Hungarian

  • movie theater / cinema — filmszínház
  • projection — vetités
  • reel — tekercs (plural: tekercset)

Icelandic

  • movie theater — kvikmyndahús

Indonesian

  • celluloid — seluloid
  • movie theater — bioskop
  • outdoor film screening (specific Indonesian tradition) — layar tancep
  • film print — cetakan
  • projector — proyektor
  • projectionist — operator projektor
  • roll of film — gulungan film
  • screen — layar

Italian

  • celluloid — celluloide
  • cue mark — bollini di sincronizzazione / segnali di coda
  • movie theater / cinema — cinema / sala cinematografica
  • projectionist — proiezionista

Japanese

  • 35mm — 35ミリ
  • acetate — アセテート
  • analog — アナログ
  • anamorphic — アナモフィック
  • aperture plate — 開口プレート
  • archive — アーカイブ
  • aspect ratio — アスペクト比
  • celluloid — セルロイド
  • mini theater — ミニシアター
  • movie — 映画 or 電影
  • movie theater / cinema — 映画館
  • projection — 映写
  • projectionist — 映写技師
  • projector (specifically movie projectors) — 映写機
  • projector (more general term) — プロジェクタ
  • reel — フィルム一巻 or リール
  • screen — スクリーン

Javanese

  • movie theater — biyoskup

Korean

  • celluloid — 셀룰로이드
  • a movie — 영화
  • movie theater — 영화관
  • screen — 스크린

Latvian

  • movie theater — kinoteātris

Lithuanian

  • cinema — kino
  • film — filmas / filmai / filmo / filmus / filmais / filmų
  • movie theater — kino teatras
  • screenings — peržiūrų
  • strip (like a strip of film) — juostoje

Luxembourgish

  • movie theater — Kino

Norwegian

  • movie theater — kino

Macedonian

  • movie theater — Кино

Malay

  • movie theater — pawagam / panggung wayang gambar
  • screened — ditayangkan

Mongolian

  • movie theater — Кинотеатр

Pashto

  • movie theater — سينما

Persian

  • a movie — فیلم
  • movie theater — سینما

Polish

  • celluloid — celuloid
  • motion picture film stock — taśma filmowa
  • movie theater / cinema — kino
  • screen — ekran kinowy / ekran projekcyjny

Portuguese

  • a movie — filme / fita / película
  • celluloid — celuloide
  • movie theater — sala de cinema / cinema

Romanian

  • movie theater — cinematograf / sală de cinema

Russian

  • 35mm — 35-мм
  • a movie — Фильм
  • celluloid — Целлулоид
  • movie theater — Кинотеатр

Serbian

  • movie theater — Биоскоп / кино

Spanish

  • analog — analógico
  • anamorphic — anamorfico
  • celluloid — celuloide
  • grain — grano
  • lens — lente
  • a movie — película / film / filme / peli
  • movie theater / cinema — sala de proyección / sala de cine / cine
  • projection — proyección
  • projection booth — cabina de proyección / cabina / caseta
  • projectionist — proyeccionista / operador de cine
  • projector — proyector
  • reel — rollo
  • screen — pantalla de proyección

Slovak

Much of this information is from reading inspection forms that came from a Slovak film distributor

  • aspect ratio — obrazovy formát / formát obrazového pole
  • audio — zvuk
  • celluloid — celuloid
  • film format — nosič
  • film print — filmového materiálu
  • inspection — kontrole
  • movie theater / cinema — kino
  • screening — predstavení
  • soundtrack — stopa
  • splice — nalepené ukázky
  • projection booth — promitací kabina
  • projectionist — promítač

Slovenian

  • movie theater — kino

Sudanese

  • movie theater — bioskop

Swahili

  • a movie — filamu
  • movie theater — jumba la sinema

Swedish

  • aperture plate — bildfönster
  • aspect ratio — bildformat
  • auditorium — biografsalong, salong
  • base side (film) — blanksida
  • celluloid — celluloid
  • changeover — skifte
  • continuous sprockets — matarhjul
  • core (for winding film) — bobin
  • cue mark — skiftmärke
  • emulsion side — emulsionssida
  • film projector — filmprojektor, projektor
  • focus — skärpa
  • frame line — bildskillnadsstreck
  • geneva drive — malteserkors
  • ghosting — bländarsläp
  • inspection — syning
  • interlocking — samkörning
  • intermittent sprocket — framkastarhjul
  • lamphouse — lamphus
  • leader — startsladd
  • lens — objektiv
  • magnetic sound — magnetljud
  • masking (at screen) — dukmask
  • movie — film
  • movie theater / cinema — biograf, bio
  • platter system — non-rewind, vinda
  • port window — projektionsglugg, projektionsfönster
  • print — filmkopia, kopia
  • projection booth — maskinrum
  • projectionist — biografmaskinist, maskinist
  • rectifier — likriktare
  • reel — akt
  • reel (spool) — filmhjul
  • reflector — spegel
  • rewind bench — spolbord
  • screen — filmduk, duk
  • shutter — bländare
  • silent film — stumfilm
  • sound format — ljudformat
  • soundtrack — ljudspår
  • splice — skarva
  • splicer — skarvapparat
  • splicing tape — skarvtejp
  • split reel — stickhjul
  • subtitles — undertext, text
  • (to) thread — ladda
  • xenon short-arc lamp — xenon-kolv, xenon-lampa

Tagalog

  • movie theater — sinehan

Tamil

  • a movie — திரைப்படம்
  • celluloid — செலுலாயிடு

Thai

  • movie theater — โรงภาพยนตร

Turkish

  • celluloid — selüloit
  • movie theater — sinema

Ukranian

  • 35mm — 35 мм
  • celluloid — Целулоїд
  • movie theater — Кінотеа́тр

Vietnamese

  • a movie — bộ phim
  • motion picture film — phim nhựa
  • movie theater — rạp chiếu phim
  • screen — màn chiếu

Welsh

  • movie theater — sinema

Wolof

  • movie theater — sinemaa

Yoruba

  • cinema — Sinima
  • movie — filmu

Zulu

  • a movie — ifilimu
  • movie theater / cinema — ibhayisikobho