Evolution du cinéma - Vocab French to English
French: AQA A Level, topic 8.3.1
Evolution du cinéma -French to English
Key topic words
- l’applaudissement (m) - applause
- le cinéaste - filmmaker
- le court-métrage - short film
- l’exposition (f) - exhibition
- le long-métrage - feature length film
- la projection - projection, screening, showing
Nouns
- l’avancement technologique (m) - technological advance
- le / la comédien(-ienne) - actor
- la durée - length, running time
- l’écran (m) plat - flat screen
- le mode de règlement - means of payment
- le monopole - monopoly
Nouns (continued)
- la renaissance - rebirth
- le tournage - filming, shooting
- la version du réalisateur - director’s cut
- le montage - editing
Verbs
- concevoir - to conceive
- déclencher - to set in motion
- mériter - to merit, to be worth
- nuire à - to be harmful to
- projeter - to project, to screen, to show
- proposer - to offer, to propose, to suggest
Adjectives
- attendu - expected
- décevant - disappointing
- restreint - limited
- vieux jeu - old-fashioned, out of date
Others
- en permanence - permanently
- en noir et blanc - in black and white
- à travers le monde - throughout the world
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