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kinetoscope

American  
[ki-nee-tuh-skohp, -net-uh-, kahy-] / kɪˈni təˌskoʊp, -ˈnɛt ə-, kaɪ- /

noun

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


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Etymology

Origin of kinetoscope

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


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The business allowed customers to access entertainment — music, speeches and, eventually, brief kinetoscope movies — for a nickel a spin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2020

Heise, too, was dissatisfied enough with the state of boxing-cat-capturing technology that he built his own, working with Dickson on the development of the kinetoscope.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2018

He paved the way for Eugen Sandow, a “theatrical athlete” who fought a lion, posed in skimpy clothes and flexed for Thomas Edison’s kinetoscope in 1894.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2016

Film production was originally based in and around New York, where Thomas Edison first debuted the kinetoscope in 1893.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014

Sooner or later the kinetoscope will do what he could not, bring the nobler side of the equality idea to the people who are so crassly equal.

From The Art of the Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay

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