kinetoscope
[ki-nee-tuh-skohp, -net-uh-, kahy-]
- 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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They are often cheap and degrading, though the kinetoscope can be made valuable for education.
SocietyHenry Kalloch Rowe
I peeped through a kinetoscope last winter at a prize fight.
When Grandmamma Was NewMarion Harland
The phonograph is his achievement, and the practical development of the kinetoscope.
Historic InventionsRupert S. Holland
It was to him, with his splendid power of vision, like gazing into a kinetoscope.
Martin EdenJack London
I had come across the Futuroscope, otherwise a kinetoscope with the gift of prophecy.
Olympian NightsJohn Kendrick Bangs