- a variation of cinematograph.
kinematograph
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They protruded from a background of swarming halls, elevated passages, rooms jammed with ward leaders in council kinematograph and telephone rooms, and windows looking out on a seething sea of marching men.
From When the Sleeper Wakes by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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 Hanshew, Thomas W.
It's a put-up thing: the taking of a kinematograph film, a living picture, for the Alhambra to-night!
From Cleek, the Master Detective by Hanshew, Thomas W.
The German Navy League, an aggressive body which had gathered around it more than a million members previous to the war, stirred up anti-British feeling by means of leaflets, newspaper articles, kinematograph exhibitions, and sermons.
From The Land of Deepening Shadow Germany-at-War by Curtin, D. Thomas
To put one's head above the parapet of a trench, with the Germans only seventy-five yards away, and to take a kinematograph picture of a bombardment, is not one of the wisest—or safest—things to do!
From How I Filmed the War A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. by Malins, Geoffrey H.
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