kinetoscope

4 definitions found

kinetoscope - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Kinetoscope \Ki*ne"to*scope\, n. [Originally a tradename, 1894.]
     An obsolete form of moving picture viewer, in which a film
     carrying successive instantaneous views of a moving scene
     travels uniformly through the field of a magnifying glass.
     The observer sees each picture, momentarily, through a slit
     in a revolving disk, and these glimpses, blended by
     persistence of vision, give the impression of continuous
     motion. It has been superseded by more recent versions of
     movie projector and electronic video viewers.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

  kinetoscope \ki*ne"to*scope\ (k[-i]*n[=e]`t[-o]*sk[=o]p; 277),
     n. [Gr. kinhto`s movable + -scope.]
     An instrument for producing curves by the combination of
     circular movements; -- called also kinescope. --Cope.
     [1913 Webster]

  Cinematograph \Cin`e*mat"o*graph\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, motion +
     -graph.]
     1. an older name for a movie projector, a machine,
        combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for
        projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly
        (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an
        objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the
        illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector;
        also, any of several other machines or devices producing
        moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the movie  projector
         are animatograph, biograph, bioscope,
        electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph,
        kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope,
        zoogyroscope, zoopraxiscope, etc.
  
              The cinematograph, invented by Edison in 1894, is
              the result of the introduction of the flexible film
              into photography in place of glass.   --Encyc. Brit.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by
        the instrument described above.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

kinetoscope - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Kinetoscope
      n 1: a device invented by Edison that gave an impression of
           movement as an endless loop of film moved continuously over
           a light source with a rapid shutter; precursor of the
           modern motion picture