kinematograph
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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.
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.
Why, it was only a faked-up thing—the taking of a kinematograph picture for the Alhambra.
From Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Hanshew, Thomas W.
A dense crowd was always collected in the stationary central way watching a vast kinematograph which displayed the changing fashion.
From Tales of Space and Time by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
While waiting I went over to the kampong to kinematograph two dancing girls who the day before, owing to their bashfulness, had detained us so long that the light became inadequate.
From Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 by Lumholtz, Carl
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