kinetoscope

[ ki-nee-tuh-skohp, -net-uh-, kahy- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

an early motion-picture device, invented by Edison, in which the film passed behind a peephole for viewing by a single viewer.

ki·ne·to·scop·ic [ki-nee-t, uh, -, skop, -ik, -net-, uh, -, kahy-], adjective

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65; kineto- + -scope

They constituted rather an accurate kinetoscope view of the yearly lives of chance passing workers in those trades.

Swiftly, with a click like that of the mechanism in a kinetoscope, the scene changed.

It is not a vision neither is there a mere kinetoscope procession.

The kinetoscope comes to aid the phonograph to make pictures of action and lasting records of music and of speech.

It takes this new invention, the kinetoscope, to bring us these panoramic drama-elements.

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