"Origins of words" by Susie Dent, Countdown 27/10/17 (cliffhanger, end up on the cutting-room floor, being in the can, silver screen

I've been browsing through the Oxford Dictionary's blog, which I recommended quite often, just a free site with lots of lovely facts and stories about the English language. And thix one remind me of all the words that have passed into English from movies and movie-making, film-making. Since its inception in the early 20th century, lota and lots of worda have travelled into English. Cliffhanger - that of course came from shots of people literally hanging onto a cliff by their fingertips, becamr a famous film with Sylvester Stallone as well. Something might end up on the cutting-room floor, we might just say that, that obviously refers back to parts of the film that were literally cut out from the reel and discarded onto the floor. We talk about things being in the can, reffering to the canister in which a film reel is held once editing is complete. But there's one that took me by surprise and I didn't know this one, and I love it. We talk about the silver screen - that goes back to people first visiting the pictures, as they well called, and movie screens were coated with reflective metallic paint, so it resulted in a really highly reflective silver surface to better display the projected images, so from the screen projector. And, obviously, as technologies moved on, then that died out. So there you go, just the smattering of words that have passed into English from the cinema. But I like silver screen, I didn't realise it was literally silver to being with.