GWW wrote:My grandmother used to refer to the movies at the cinema as "the pictures".
You mean to say that people don't refer to them as "the pictures" anymore?
I'm gonna have trouble with the lingo when I get back from Japan.
by therisingblues » Sun Nov 10, 2013 6:27 pm
GWW wrote:My grandmother used to refer to the movies at the cinema as "the pictures".
by therisingblues » Sun Nov 10, 2013 6:39 pm
Psyber wrote:GWW wrote:My grandmother used to refer to the movies at the cinema as "the pictures".
The term "Cinema" is derived from a Greek word that approximates "moving pictures", and was in use before and during the 1920s.
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by Psyber » Mon Nov 11, 2013 7:28 pm
therisingblues wrote:Psyber wrote:GWW wrote:My grandmother used to refer to the movies at the cinema as "the pictures".
The term "Cinema" is derived from a Greek word that approximates "moving pictures", and was in use before and during the 1920s.
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Actually comes to us via the French "cinematogaphe" which means moving pictures. They derived it from the Greek word "kinema" which means movement, hence in science we have "kinetic energy". The U.S probably pinched the term in the 1920's, as you say, but the French made it up in the late 19thC.
by therisingblues » Mon Nov 11, 2013 11:57 pm
Psyber wrote:therisingblues wrote:Psyber wrote:GWW wrote:My grandmother used to refer to the movies at the cinema as "the pictures".
The term "Cinema" is derived from a Greek word that approximates "moving pictures", and was in use before and during the 1920s.
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Actually comes to us via the French "cinematogaphe" which means moving pictures. They derived it from the Greek word "kinema" which means movement, hence in science we have "kinetic energy". The U.S probably pinched the term in the 1920's, as you say, but the French made it up in the late 19thC.
Yes, quite correct - I just didn't want to make my post too long, and to keep the focus on "Cinema" being as old a term as "pictures" or "flicks".
The term was adopted in some parts of the US from the French before the 1920s, and seems to have become more prominent here more recently under US influence.
(I haven't checked whether it was in use here in some places early in the 20th century, but it wasn't a term I heard in my childhood in the 1950s and 1960s.)
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Pseudo wrote:^ you're not old, you young whipersnapper, unless you remember commercials like this:
Gatt_Weasel wrote:if they (Walkerville) dont win the flag ill run around the block of my street naked :) you can grab a chair and enjoy the view
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by Phantom Gossiper » Wed Apr 09, 2014 9:37 am
Footy Chick wrote:I could almost guarantee that there are no ads on the telly nowadays that you'd still remember word for word in 30 years time..
by Footy Chick » Wed Apr 09, 2014 9:58 am
Gatt_Weasel wrote:if they (Walkerville) dont win the flag ill run around the block of my street naked :) you can grab a chair and enjoy the view
by am Bays » Wed Apr 09, 2014 2:36 pm
Footy Chick wrote:We should go on a campaign to find the kid holding that pack of chips on the bus in the top KESAB ad - our own "where are they now" segment
by Wedgie » Wed Apr 09, 2014 5:21 pm
Phantom Gossiper wrote:Footy Chick wrote:I could almost guarantee that there are no ads on the telly nowadays that you'd still remember word for word in 30 years time..
I beg the differ..
"Metropolitan Plumbing.. *drip*.. Metropolitan Plumbing.. *drip*.."
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by Psyber » Wed Apr 09, 2014 7:23 pm
Phantom Gossiper wrote:Footy Chick wrote:I could almost guarantee that there are no ads on the telly nowadays that you'd still remember word for word in 30 years time..
I beg the differ..
"Metropolitan Plumbing.. *drip*.. Metropolitan Plumbing.. *drip*.."
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