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means The person in charge of how a film actually looks — lighting, camera, lens, and composition — translating the director's vision into images.

from Built from Greek 'kinema' (movement) plus '-graph' (to write or record) — so literally 'one who writes movement.' The word rode in on the French 'cinématographe,' the name the Lumière brothers gave their camera-projector device in the 1890s, which itself fused the same Greek roots. The job title followed the machine: once you could write movement, someone had to be credited as the one doing the writing.