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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
kinetograph \ki*ne"to*graph\, n. [Gr. ? movable + -graph.]
(Physics)
(a) A camera for making chronophotographs. [obsolescent]
(b) A machine for the projection of chronophotographs upon a
screen for the purpose of producing the effect of an
animated picture. [obsolescent]
(c) A combined animated-picture machine and phonograph in
which sounds appropriate to the scene are automatically
uttered by the latter instrument. It has been superseded
by recording techniques allowing the sounds to be
recorded directly on the motion-picture film.
[obsolescent]
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]