On the Tip of My Tongue by Tom Read Wilson

Author:Tom Read Wilson [Wilson, Tom Read]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Quarto Group
Published: 2022-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Cinema

si • nuh • muhnoun

The key word which all these others orbit is, of course, cinema. It is a contraction of cinematograph from the Greek kinema, ‘movement’ and graphē, ‘drawing’. Isn’t it funny how close ‘movement drawings’ is to ‘moving pictures’? The latter, ultimately, gave us the contraction movies. You will probably recognise kinema from words like kinetic, ‘of or relating to movement’ and akinesia, ‘loss of voluntary movement’. Of course, the movement on the screen was everything, since, at the time of these etymological conjurings, we were dealing exclusively with silent films.

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