KINETOGRAPH

Etymology

Noun

kinetograph (plural kinetographs)

(dated) A camera for making chronophotographs.

(dated) A machine for projecting chronophotographs upon a screen for the purpose of producing the effect of an animated picture, sometimes with an accompanying soundtrack.

Source: Wiktionary


Ki*ne"to*graph, n. [Gr. movable + -graph.] (Physics) (a) A camera for making chronophotographs. (b) A machine for the projection of chronophotographs upon a screen for the purpose of producing the effect of an animated picture. (c) A combined animated-picture machine and phonograph in which sounds appropriate to the scene are automatically uttered by the latter instrument.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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