Thread: Need help with the movie industry vocabulary

I am translating into English a movie budget and some terms are simply too much for me. A short selection of my difficulties:
контратипная пленка
звукотехническая пленка
магнитооптические диски
Комбинированные и специальные съемки
телега, рельсы
дистанционный кран
кинофло
Партикабль h=1,5m
штатив = stand?
Колодки, двойные концы
автобус с/г
светобаза
камерваген
тонваген
лихтваген

I wonder why they also don't have a газенваген on the budget...
Anyway, any help will be appreciated.

Originally Posted by Ladeque

контратипная пленка - contretype film. contretype (french) - Positive copy of film obtained by doubling original negative.
звукотехническая пленка - film for sound-track.
магнитооптические диски - magnetooptic computer discs
Комбинированные и специальные съемки - combination shot/ trick photography
телега, рельсы - mobile platform for cameraman, rails for it
дистанционный кран - crane for camera with remote control
кинофло - Kino Flo lamp http://images.google.com/images?q=%4B%6 ... 0%46%6C%6F
Партикабль h=1,5m = площадка для съемки с высоких точек.
штатив = tripoid, stand
Колодки, двойные концы. Колодки = Клемные колодки. http://www.prato.ru/img/kolodka_.jpg Groups of connection terminals Двойные концы - ??cable with terminals on both sides??
автобус с/г = автобус съемочной группы - bus for personal and artists
светобаза - truck for light equipment http://www.cinelab.ru/index.php?lang=en&id=eq&eq=259
камерваген - truck/bus for cameras and/or video recording equipment.
тонваген - truck/bus for sound recording equipment
лихтваген - truck with mobile electric power station

I'm not a movie maker. But I just tried/

Много таких терминов есть на http://www.gorkyfilm.ru/cam.shtml

Originally Posted by Ladeque

I wonder why they also don't have a газенваген on the budget...

гримваген - гримерка = bus for actor make-up
скайлифт - sky lift = http://www.skylift.ru/i/ft3.jpg http://www.skylift.ru/i/ft6.jpg
кетеринг - передвижная столовая/кухня = catering bus
костюмерка - truck with costumes for actors

Может, эти термины ими и останутся?
lichtwagen, tonwagen, etc

mobile platform for cameraman = dolly

Всем большое спасибо!

Ещё небольшая порция, буду благодарен за идеи.
с/х шумы (К сельскому хозяйству отношения не имеет точно)
Чистка чистовых речевых фонограмм
Перезапись
разборка негатива
печать рабочего позитива

Originally Posted by Indra

Может, эти термины ими и останутся?
lichtwagen, tonwagen, etc

Остануться, только в немецком.
http://lingvo.yandex.ru/cgi-bin/lingvo. ... lichtwagen
http://lingvo.yandex.ru/cgi-bin/lingvo.pl?text=tonwagen

Originally Posted by Ladeque

Перезапись -- ??remastering??

Originally Posted by Ladeque

с/х шумы

синхронные шумы. http://ruskino-project.livejournal.com/45480.html

Originally Posted by Indra

Может, эти термины ими и останутся?
lichtwagen, tonwagen, etc

As Wowik says, it's German, you can't use those terms in English.
You can say "light truck" and "sound truck". Although usually sound equipment isn't so bulky as to use a whole truck.... so it would rather be a "sound car".

Originally Posted by Wowik

Originally Posted by Ladeque

Перезапись -- ??remastering??

Could be, but there's a better chance that's it's "rerecording".
Do you have some context for us, Ladeque?

And here's what I think about your new words:

разборка негатива: negative cutting or negative editing
печать рабочего позитива: to print a working positive (i.e. a positive print is made so that the film editor can edit the whole thing - the print suffers in the process, so it isn't used itself. On the basis of this edit though, the negative cutting is done (the original neg, in a dustfree room, editor wearing cotton gloves, etc . From this negative cut, positives are printed that go out to the cinemas)
Чистка чистовых речевых фонограмм : ouch - context?! It could range from "final clean-up of commentary track" (literally cleaning, with cloth and alcohol, if we're talking optical sound on archive material), to "final ADR (=automatic dubbing recording) processing", if it's about a modern film......... Don't take my word for this one yet

BTW:
магнитооптические диски - magnetooptic computer discs
- is correct, but they're normally just called "M.O.D.'s"

Thank you for your effort folks!

Originally Posted by BabaYaga

Do you have some context for us, Ladeque?

This is a budget and it contains among other things the post-production process in tabular form with the associated budgeted expenses. Well, I guess it means there is no context, but simply a list of terms.
Compromising a lot I've killed off most of unfamiliar stuff. But some are still there:
оформление негатива фонограммы
There also is изготовление негатива фонограммы перезаписи
печать" малоконтрастной" копии для изг. Видеомастера

And may be someone can enlighten me on whether there are any special Начисления 23.1% on intellectual rights different from the usual Отчисления на социальные нужды 26.2%

печать" малоконтрастной" копии для изг. Видеомастера : this one's pretty obvious: low contrast film print for video mastering (don't worry too much if you don't understand - the people reading it will )

I'll try to think hard about the others - thing is, within the context (a budget, i.e. we're talking modern film here), it seems funny to have "sound film" as a term: it sounds to me like optical sound, but can it possibly be, in 2006?!

If I get any more bright ideas, I'll let you know.