Meaning of kinetoscope | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An early device for exhibiting motion pictures, creating the illusion of movement from a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images that is conveyed over a light source with a high-speed shutter.
2. An instrument for illustrating the production of kinematic curves by the combination of circular movements of different radii.

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Examples

“A paper-over-board book based on a new technology that its inventor, the author, calls “scanimation”: mimicking the effect of a kinetoscope, the pictures of animals, birds and fish seem to move with extraordinary naturalism.”

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