motion-picture laboratory

1) Advertising: motion-picture laboratory

2) Makarov: cine laboratory

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SUBJECT AREA: Photography, film and optics

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Dickson was born in France of English and Scottish parents. As a young man of almost 19 years, he wrote in 1879 to Thomas Edison in America, asking for a job. Edison replied that he was not taking on new staff at that time, but Dickson, with his mother and sisters, decided to emigrate anyway. In 1883 he contacted Edison again, and was given a job at the Goerk Street laboratory of the Edison Electric Works in New York. He soon assumed a position of responsibility as Superintendent, working on the development of electric light and power systems, and also carried out most of the photography Edison required. In 1888 he moved to the Edison West Orange laboratory, becoming Head of the ore-milling department. When Edison, inspired by Muybridge's sequence photographs of humans and animals in motion, decided to develop a motion picture apparatus, he gave the task to Dickson, whose considerable skills in mechanics, photography and electrical work made him the obvious choice. The first experiments, in 1888, were on a cylinder machine like the phonograph, in which the sequence pictures were to be taken in a spiral. This soon proved to be impractical, and work was delayed for a time while Dickson developed a new ore-milling machine. Little progress with the movie project was made until George Eastman's introduction in July 1889 of celluloid roll film, which was thin, tough, transparent and very flexible. Dickson returned to his experiments in the spring of 1891 and soon had working models of a film camera and viewer, the latter being demonstrated at the West Orange laboratory on 20 May 1891. By the early summer of 1892 the project had advanced sufficiently for commercial exploitation to begin. The Kinetograph camera used perforated 35 mm film (essentially the same as that still in use in the late twentieth century), and the kinetoscope, a peep-show viewer, took fifty feet of film running in an endless loop. Full-scale manufacture of the viewers started in 1893, and they were demonstrated on a number of occasions during that year. On 14 April 1894 the first kinetoscope parlour, with ten viewers, was opened to the public in New York. By the end of that year, the kinetoscope was seen by the public all over America and in Europe. Dickson had created the first commercially successful cinematograph system. Dickson left Edison's employment on 2 April 1895, and for a time worked with Woodville Latham on the development of his Panoptikon projector, a projection version of the kinetoscope. In December 1895 he joined with Herman Casier, Henry N.Marvin and Elias Koopman to form the American Mutoscope Company. Casier had designed the Mutoscope, an animated-picture viewer in which the sequences of pictures were printed on cards fixed radially to a drum and were flipped past the eye as the drum rotated. Dickson designed the Biograph wide-film camera to produce the picture sequences, and also a projector to show the films directly onto a screen. The large-format images gave pictures of high quality for the period; the Biograph went on public show in America in September 1896, and subsequently throughout the world, operating until around 1905. In May 1897 Dickson returned to England and set up as a producer of Biograph films, recording, among other subjects, Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 1897, Pope Leo XIII in 1898, and scenes of the Boer War in 1899 and 1900. Many of the Biograph subjects were printed as reels for the Mutoscope to produce the "what the butler saw" machines which were a feature of fairgrounds and seaside arcades until modern times. Dickson's contact with the Biograph Company, and with it his involvement in cinematography, ceased in 1911.

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SUBJECT AREA: Photography, film and optics, Recording

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Lauste was a prolific inventor who as a 22-year-old had more than fifty patents to his name. He joined Edison's West Orange Laboratory as Assistant to W.K.L. Dickson in 1887; he was soon involved in the development of early motion pictures, beginning an association with the cinema that was to dominate the rest of his working life. He left Edison in 1892 to pursue an interest in petrol engines, but within two years he returned to cinematography, where, in association with Major Woodville Latham, he introduced small but significant improvements to film-projection systems. In 1900 an interest in sound recording, dating back to his early days with Edison, led Lauste to begin exploring the possibility of recording sound photographically on film alongside the picture. In 1904 he moved to England, where he continued his experiments, and by 1907 he had succeeded in photographing a sound trace and picture simultaneously, each image occupying half the width of the film.

Despite successful demonstrations of Lauste's system on both sides of the Atlantic, he enjoyed no commercial success. Handicapped by lack of capital, his efforts were finally brought to an end by the First World War. In 1906 Lauste had filed a patent for his sound-on-film system, which has been described by some authorities as the master patent for talking pictures. Although this claim is questionable, he was the first to produce a practicable scund-on-film system and establish the basic principles that were universally followed until the introduction of magnetic sound.

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SUBJECT AREA: Broadcasting, Electronics and information technology, Photography, film and optics, Recording, Telecommunications

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De Forest was born into the family of a Congregational minister that moved to Alabama in 1879 when the father became President of a college for African-Americans; this was a position that led to the family's social ostracism by the white community. By the time he was 13 years old, De Forest was already a keen mechanical inventor, and in 1893, rejecting his father's plan for him to become a clergyman, he entered the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. Following his first degree, he went on to study the propagation of electromagnetic waves, gaining a PhD in physics in 1899 for his thesis on the "Reflection of Hertzian Waves from the Ends of Parallel Wires", probably the first US thesis in the field of radio.

He then joined the Western Electric Company in Chicago where he helped develop the infant technology of wireless, working his way up from a modest post in the production area to a position in the experimental laboratory. There, working alone after normal working hours, he developed a detector of electromagnetic waves based on an electrolytic device similar to that already invented by Fleming in England. Recognizing his talents, a number of financial backers enabled him to set up his own business in 1902 under the name of De Forest Wireless Telegraphy Company; he was soon demonstrating wireless telegraphy to interested parties and entering into competition with the American Marconi Company.

Despite the failure of this company because of fraud by his partners, he continued his experiments; in 1907, by adding a third electrode, a wire mesh, between the anode and cathode of the thermionic diode invented by Fleming in 1904, he was able to produce the amplifying device now known as the triode valve and achieve a sensitivity of radio-signal reception much greater than possible with the passive carborundum and electrolytic detectors hitherto available. Patented under the name Audion, this new vacuum device was soon successfully used for experimental broadcasts of music and speech in New York and Paris. The invention of the Audion has been described as the beginning of the electronic era. Although much development work was required before its full potential was realized, the Audion opened the way to progress in all areas of sound transmission, recording and reproduction. The patent was challenged by Fleming and it was not until 1943 that De Forest's claim was finally recognized.

Overcoming the near failure of his new company, the De Forest Radio Telephone Company, as well as unsuccessful charges of fraudulent promotion of the Audion, he continued to exploit the potential of his invention. By 1912 he had used transformer-coupling of several Audion stages to achieve high gain at radio frequencies, making long-distance communication a practical proposition, and had applied positive feedback from the Audion output anode to its input grid to realize a stable transmitter oscillator and modulator. These successes led to prolonged patent litigation with Edwin Armstrong and others, and he eventually sold the manufacturing rights, in retrospect often for a pittance.

During the early 1920s De Forest began a fruitful association with T.W.Case, who for around ten years had been working to perfect a moving-picture sound system. De Forest claimed to have had an interest in sound films as early as 1900, and Case now began to supply him with photoelectric cells and primitive sound cameras. He eventually devised a variable-density sound-on-film system utilizing a glow-discharge modulator, the Photion. By 1926 De Forest's Phonofilm had been successfully demonstrated in over fifty theatres and this system became the basis of Movietone. Though his ideas were on the right lines, the technology was insufficiently developed and it was left to others to produce a system acceptable to the film industry. However, De Forest had played a key role in transforming the nature of the film industry; within a space of five years the production of silent films had all but ceased.

In the following decade De Forest applied the Audion to the development of medical diathermy. Finally, after spending most of his working life as an independent inventor and entrepreneur, he worked for a time during the Second World War at the Bell Telephone Laboratories on military applications of electronics.

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cinematographic, cinematic, film, movie.

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► adjetivo

1 cinematographic

■ la industria cinematográfica the film industry, US the movie industry

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ADJ film antes de s, cinematographic frm

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- ca adjetivo movie (before n), film (BrE) (before n)

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= cinematographic, filmic, cinematic.

Ex. This article reviews the many different types of film being produced today, and defines many cinematographic terms.

Ex. Criteria adopted for selection of film include the filmic treatment of major literary or theatrical works, milestones in the history of national cinemas, and cinematically innovative and challenging works by newcomers.

Ex. Each video shot is logged using text descriptions, audio dialogue, and cinematic attributes.

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* adaptación al cine, adaptación cinematográfica = film adaptation.

* análisis cinematográfico = film analysis.

* Asociación Americana de Productores Cinematográficos = Motion Picture Association of America.

* crítica cinematográfica = cinematic criticism, film criticism.

* dirección cinematográfica = film direction.

* director cinematográfico = film director.

* estudio cinematográfico = film location, film studio.

* industria cinematográfica, la = film making industry, the, film industry, the, movie industry, the.

* laboratorio cinematográfico = film laboratory.

* producción cinematográfica = film making [filmmaking].

* productora cinematográfica = film company.

* proyección cinematográfica = cinematographic projection, film projection.

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- ca adjetivo movie (before n), film (BrE) (before n)

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movie ( before n), film ( BrE) ( before n)

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◊ -ca adjetivo

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cinematográfico, -a adj

movie, Br film;

guión cinematográfico movie o Br film script

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adj movie atr

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cinematográfico, -ca adj

: movie, film, cinematic

la industria cinematográfica: the film industry

1) cinem. (movie) film m., pellicola f.

2) fot. (for snapshots, movies) pellicola f., film m.

3) (layer) pellicola f., strato m. sottile

4) gastr. cellofan m., pellicola f. (trasparente)

modificatore [archive, award, critic, industry, laboratory, producer, studio, version, rights] cinematografico

verbo transitivo [ person] filmare [ event]; adattare per il cinema [novel, play]; [ camera] filmare, registrare [ scene]

verbo intransitivo [ camera man] filmare, girare; [ crew] girare un film

- film over

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1) ((a thin strip of) celluloid made sensitive to light on which photographs are taken: photographic film.) pellicola

2) (a story, play etc shown as a motion picture in a cinema, on television etc: to make a film; ( also adjective) a film version of the novel.) film

3) (a thin skin or covering: a film of dust.) pellicola

1) (to make a motion picture (of): They are going to film the race.) filmare

2) ((usually with over) to cover with a film: Her eyes gradually filmed (over) with tears.) coprirsi

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- filmy

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1) cinem. (movie) film m., pellicola f.

2) fot. (for snapshots, movies) pellicola f., film m.

3) (layer) pellicola f., strato m. sottile

4) gastr. cellofan m., pellicola f. (trasparente)

modificatore [archive, award, critic, industry, laboratory, producer, studio, version, rights] cinematografico

verbo transitivo [ person] filmare [ event]; adattare per il cinema [novel, play]; [ camera] filmare, registrare [ scene]

verbo intransitivo [ camera man] filmare, girare; [ crew] girare un film

- film over

1) метр. средство измерений

2) измерительный прибор; измеритель

3) инструмент; инструментальное средство

1) Engineering: motion-picture printing factory

2) Cinema: printing station

3) Advertising: printing laboratory

abs

1) let them enter пусть они войдут, впустите их; enter Macbeth входит Макбет (сценическая ремарка)

2) the mark where the bullet had -ed входное отверстие пули

1) enter a room (a house, a building, a cave, a tunnel, a forest, an harbour, etc.) входить /проникать/ в комнату и т.д.; the army entered the pass армия вступила в ущелье; the bullet entered his heart пуля попала ему в сердце; such an idea never entered my head /my thoughts/ такая мысль никогда не приходила мне в голову

2) enter a school ([а] college, [a] University, etc.) поступать в школу т.д.; enter the Army (the Navy, etc.) поступать на военную службу и т.д.; enter the legal profession стать юристом; enter the Church стать священником; enter a convent уйти в монастырь; enter a contest включиться в конкурс, принять участие в конкурсе /в соревновании/

3) enter a name (a date, a sum, etc.) вписывать имя и т.д.; enter one's appearance зарегистрироваться /отметиться/ (на собрании); a deal регистрировать сделку; enter goods подавать таможенную декларацию [на провозимые товары]

1) be entered in smth. who is entered in the race? кто принимает участие в гонках?

2) be entered at some place large quantities of cotton are entered at the port через порт ввозится большое количество хлопка

1) enter at /by/ smth. enter at a front door (at a gate, by a secret entrance, by a window, etc.) войти /проникнуть/ через парадную дверь и т.д.; enter into smth. enter into a building (into a room, into a courtyard, into an enclosure, etc.) входить /проникать/ в здание и т.д.; the arrow entered into his head стрела вонзилась ему в голову; enter into smb.'s calculations входить в чьи-л. расчеты; enter into one's interests соответствовать чьим-л. интересам; enter into general use войти в обиход, получить широкое распространение; when chance enters into it все решит случай, все решает случай; reason doesn't enter into it разум здесь ни при чем

2) enter into smth. enter into business (into motion picture production, into politics, into public life, etc.) заняться предпринимательством и т.д.; enter into military service поступить на военную службу; enter into the game with great spirit с большим воодушевлением включиться в игру; enter into the bonds of matrimony вступить в брак, связать себя узами брака; enter into a partnership with smb. сделаться чьим-л. компаньоном, войти в долю с кем-л.; enter into agreement (into a compact /into a contract/, into a treaty, etc.) заключить соглашение, вступить /войти/ в соглашение и т.д.

3) enter into smth. enter into this category (into the composition of smth., into their diet, etc.) входить /включаться/ в эту категорию и т.д.; subjects that do not enter into the question вопросы, не имеющие отношения к данной проблеме

4) enter (up)on smth. enter upon one's duties (upon an undertaking, upon one's work with enthusiasm, upon a course of advanced study, etc.) приступать к своим обязанностям и т.д.; enter upon a discussion (upon a subject, upon the consideration of the question, etc.) приступать /переходить/ к обсуждению и т.д.; enter upon a new life (on a new existence, upon a new career, etc.) начинать новую жизнь и т.д.; enter into smth. enter into conversation (into an argument, into further controversy, into correspondence with smb., etc.) вступать в разговор и т.д.; I don't want to enter into details /into particulars/ (into this subject, etc.) я не хочу входить /вдаваться/ в детали и т.д. /заниматься деталями и т.д./; enter into a state of war начать войну; enter (up)on /into /smth. enter upon a new phase (on a fresh stage, into the atomic stage, upon another era, etc.) вступать в новую фазу и т.д.; enter into/upon/ negotiations вступать в переговоры; enter into /on/ another term of office приступить к исполнению обязанностей в связи с новым сроком полномочий

5) enter into smth. enter into smb.'s ideas (into smb.'s feelings, into smb.'s mood, etc.) разделять чьи-л. идеи /мысли/ и т.д. || enter into the spirit of smth. проникнуться духом чего-л.; enter into the spirit of their plan (into the spirit of the game, into the spirit of the text, into the spirit of the book, etc.) проникнуться духом их плана и т.д.; she entered into the spirit of the party она заразилась общим настроением

6) enter for smth. enter for the examination (for a competition, for a race, for games, etc.) записаться на сдачу экзамена и т.д.; enter for the prize оспаривать приз

7) enter into /upon/ smth. enter into an inheritance (into possession of smth., upon a property, etc.) вступать во владение наследством и т.д.

1) enter smth. without (by, from, etc.) smth. enter a hall by stealth (a laboratory without permission, a house from the rear, etc.) незамеченным /крадучись/ проникнуть в зал и т.д.; tile bullet entered the skull behind the right ear пуля пробила череп за правым ухом

2) enter smb., smth. for smth. enter oneself /one's name/ for an examination (for a contest, for a future vacancy, for the university, etc.) записаться /внести свое имя/ в списки экзаменующихся и т.д.; enter a horse for a race (him for the high jump, a yacht for a regatta, etc.) включить лошадь в число /в состав/ участников соревнований и т.д.; parents enter their children in school родители [заранее] записывают своих детей в школу; enter smth., smb. in /on/ smth. enter the name in the list (him on the list of candidates, an engagement in a diary, an item in an account book, the account in the journal, this amount in the ledger, the amount.on the receipts, etc.) вносить/заносить, вписывать/ имя в список и т.д.; enter words in an alphabetical order располагать /записывать/ слова в алфавитном порядке; enter a complaint in court подать жалобу в суд; enter some money to smb. enter the sum tome запишите эту сумму на мой счет /на меня/ || enter an action against smb. возбудить дело против кого-л.