kinetograph
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- kinetographer noun
- kinetographic adjective
- kinetography noun
Etymology
Origin of kinetograph
Example Sentences
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After years of experimentation, Edison patented a movie camera called the Kinetograph in 1897.
From Salon
The point was for Edison to showcase his lab’s glorious new invention: the kinetograph.
From The New Yorker
“That was fun. Any questions for me? The inventor of the kinetograph?”
From The New Yorker
He also takes us into the 1890s studio of Thomas Edison, who worked on his kinetograph movie camera and kinetoscope peep-show box.
From Seattle Times
Men who make movies have been saying such things to the women who appear in them since Thomas Edison patented the Kinetograph, and not a few of the all-time great directors are among them; ask the ghost of any given hat-check girl in a Howard Hawks picture.
From Slate
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