- a variation of cinematograph.
kinematograph
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It's a put-up thing: the taking of a kinematograph film—a living picture—for the Alhambra to-night!
From Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Thomas W. Hanshew
Next door to that there is a kinematograph wagon, with benches to seat about one hundred and fifty persons.
From The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome
The waves are recorded photographically, in some cases by the kinematograph.
A platform was rigged under the jib-boom in order that Hurley might secure some kinematograph pictures of the ship breaking through the ice.
From South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
Only beyond the great road, whose many-coloured pageant passed by him like a kinematograph, did he hear again in the alleys the sounds of children's voices, song and laughter.
From The Indian Lily and Other Stories by Ludwig Lewisohn
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