movie screen

Cinema's bright rectangle

A movie screen is the large white or silver surface onto which films are projected in a theater.

The term often stands in for the cinema experience itself: It's the kind of story that belongs on the big screen.

A movie screen differs from a television or computer monitor, which generate their own light rather than reflecting projected images.

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projection · IMAX · drive-in · flickering · audience · front row · popcorn · darkness · credits · end credits · widescreen · curtain · multiplex · matinee · premiere · opening night · box office · blockbuster

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Opposites
display apparatus vs. image source

movie screenprojector

Light-casting display device

film projector · movie projector · projection booth · light source · digital projector

passive viewing surface vs. live performance space

movie screenstage

Raised performance platform

concert stage · performance space · orchestra pit · proscenium

cinema vs. alternative media formats

movie screenradio

Electromagnetic wave receiver

audiobook · printed page · book · podcast · blank wall

Family

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G