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muto-|ˈmjuːtəʊ|
Assumed as combining form of L. mūtāre to change, in the following technical terms. ˈmutograph, an apparatus for taking a series of photographs of objects in motion; hence ˈmutograph v. trans., to portray with this apparatus. ˈmutoscope, an apparatus for exhibiting a scene recorded by the mutograph, which may be seen by looking through an aperture and turning a handle at the side of the instrument; hence mutoˈscopic a., also ˈmutoscope v.
1897Sci. Amer. 17 Apr. 248/2 The ‘mutograph’ and ‘mutoscope’, are the inventions of Mr. Herman Casler... The machine with which the original pictures are taken..is known as the ‘mutograph’, nearly following the Latin and Greek words signifying ‘changing delineation’. Ibid. 249/1 Prints..for use in the ..mutoscope machines. Ibid. 249/2 A series of ‘mutograph’ pictures. 1899Westm. Gaz. 11 Feb. 7/2 The Biograph and Mutoscope are two inventions for the reproduction of objects in motion. The negatives of views for use in both are produced by the Mutograph, a camera by which from 3,000 to 4,000 separate photographs can be taken per minute. Ibid. 3 Aug. 3/1 The impression that we have been indulging in a mutoscopic debauch. Ibid. 21 Sept. 4/1 Efforts are to be made to get Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Selborne to be ‘mutoscoped’ on their way to the Cabinet Council to-morrow. 1901World's Work Aug. 1057/2 Prints made from the film are mounted consecutively about a cylinder. As the cylinder is revolved the mounted pictures are held back by a stop, and snap past the eye so that the illusion is of a continuous motion picture. Encased in a box and with the automatic penny-in-the-slot attachment the mutoscope is ready for its common commercial use. 1902S. Smith Life Work xlv. 464 Pictures and mutoscopic exhibitions which corrupted the young wholesale. 1922Joyce Ulysses 362 Mutoscope pictures in Capel street: for men only. 1969Jabez Elliott (Ringwood, Hants.) Miscellany Catal. No. 6. 7 A little booklet or pad..of 82 photographs of two girls dancing. When the leaves are flicked over the dancers spring to life... These little books, called Mutoscopes, were popular in the early days of the Cinema. |