kinetoscopic
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a word derived from
kinetoscope.
kinetoscopenounan 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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For the record, Edison's patent for a kinetoscopic camera was issued on Aug. 24, 1891, Friese-Greene's on June 21, 1889.
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It is kinetoscopic, first of all, in its lifelikeness and the convincing reality of the actions it pictures.
From An Anarchist Woman by Hutchins Hapgood
His formulas are like stereoscopic or kinetoscopic photographs seen outside the instrument; they lack the depth, the motion, the vitality.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
As in stereoscopic or kinetoscopic pictures seen outside the instrument, the third dimension, the movement, the vital element, are not there.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
The action raced like an overtimed kinetoscopic film.
From A Man to His Mate by Stockton Mulford