cinematograph
Noun
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Noun
cinematograph (plural cinematographs)
- (historical) A camera that could develop its own film and served as its own projector.
- 1904, Rudyard Kipling, “Mrs Bathurst” in Traffics and Discoveries, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., p. 326,
- “Oh, you mean the cinematograph—the pictures of prize-fights and steamers. I’ve seen ’em up country.”
- “Biograph or cinematograph was what I was alludin’ to. London Bridge with the omnibuses—a troopship goin’ to the war—marines on parade at Portsmouth an’ the Plymouth Express arrivin’ at Paddin’ton.”
- “Seen ’em all. Seen ’em all,” said Hooper impatiently.
- 1919, Stanley W. Coxon, Dover During the Dark Days, London: John Lane, Chapter 13, p. 222,
- Flashes from the other groups of monitors and the heavy siege guns keep the whole sky lit up, flicking their flashes on the cloud-ridden celestial screen like a badly worked cinematograph.
- 1904, Rudyard Kipling, “Mrs Bathurst” in Traffics and Discoveries, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., p. 326,
cinematograph (cinematographs, present participle cinematographing; past and past participle cinematographed)
- (rare) To employ the techniques of cinematography.
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