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Definition of Kinetoscope
1. Noun. 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.
Definition of Kinetoscope
1. n. A machine, for the production of animated pictures, 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.
Definition of Kinetoscope
1. Noun. An early device for exhibiting motion pictures, creating the illusion of movement from a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images that is conveyed over a light source with a high-speed shutter. ¹
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Definition of Kinetoscope
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Literary usage of Kinetoscope
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Moving Pictures: How They are Made and Worked by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot (1914)
"The announcement ran that "Edison's kinetoscope, showing photographs in ...
The kinetoscope, Fig. 3, was housed in a wooden cabinet with a hinged door at ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"It occurred to me a few years ago that the kinetoscope offered a ready means of
securing almost any desired magnification of the rate of these slow motions ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"The kinetograph records, and the kinetoscope exhibits to the eye, the movements
of living or other active objects; the phono-kinetograph records both the ..."
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