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▪ I. cinematograph, n.|sɪnɪˈmætəgrɑːf, -græf|
[ad. F. cinématographe, f. Gr. κίνηµα, κινηµατ- movement + -graph. Cf. kinematograph.]
A device (and the necessary apparatus) by which a series of instantaneous photographs of moving objects taken in rapid succession are projected on a screen in similarly rapid and intermittent succession so as to produce the illusion of a single moving scene. Also (= cinematograph camera), a camera used for taking such pictures; (= cinematograph picture or show), an exhibition or show of such pictures; a moving picture, ‘the pictures’ (cf. cinema).
The full form of the word has been virtually displaced by its abbrev. cinema.
[1896Daily News 21 Feb. 8/4 An exhibition of the ‘Cinématographe’, in the Marlborough Hall of the Polytechnic, Regent-street, yesterday afternoon. The ‘Cinématographe’ is an invention of MM. Lumiere, and it is a contrivance by which a real scene of life and movement may be reproduced before an audience in a life size picture.] 1896Times 22 Feb. 15/3 The Cinematograph..is a contrivance belonging to the same family as Edison's kinetoscope..but in a rather higher stage of development. 1896(26 Mar.) Cinematographe [see animatograph]. 1896O. Winter in New Rev. May 513 The Cinematograph is but realism reduced to other terms, less fallible and more amusing. 1897Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 180 In the cinematograph..they are projected upon a screen. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 95 The cinematograph, invented by Edison in 1894, is the result of the introduction of the flexible film into photography in place of glass. 1902Mrs. E. Cotes Those Delightful Amer. v, We have had a cinematograph down from London for the children's school treat. 1920Q. Rev. July 183 On the more ambitious side of the cinematograph we have the ‘picturisation’ of novels and plays.
fig.1905Westm. Gaz. 18 May 2/1 The moving cinematograph of London traffic. 1906Daily Chron. 30 June 6/2 Handwriting was a cinematograph of the heart.
b. attrib. and Comb., as cinematograph actress, cinematograph camera, cinematograph entertainment, cinematograph exhibition, cinematograph film, cinematograph outfit, cinematograph picture, cinematograph show, cinematograph theatre.
1914Scotsman 8 Oct. 3/3 The adventures, observations, and experiences of a cinematograph actress in West African forests.
1897C. M. Hepworth Animated Photogr. 90 You have a cinematograph camera. 1907Daily Chron. 8 Nov. 3/5 Promiscuous cinematograph entertainments.
1898Daily News 24 Aug. 3/5 The show..consisted of a cinematographe exhibition, and had been attracting large audiences.
1897C. M. Hepworth Animated Photogr. 99 Cinematograph films are usually manipulated in the dark-room. 1907C. Urban Cinematograph 17 Cinematograph film subjects of present-day events.
1925E. F. Norton Fight for Everest, 1924 57 Mules laden with cinematograph outfit.
1897C. M. Hepworth Animated Photogr. 6 Cinematograph Pictures. 1907C. Urban Cinematograph 14 On the foundation of cinematograph pictures, imagination builds to right and left.
1912Home Chat 24 Feb. 393/1 A few theatres and cinematograph shows.
1909Rep. Joint Sel. Comm. on Stage Plays (Censorship) 76/2 The case which is now arising of the performances at what are known as cinematograph theatres. 1913V. Steer Romance Cinema 112 Chairman of two of the biggest circuits of cinematograph theatres.
▪ II. cineˈmatograph, v.
[f. prec.]
trans. To make a cinematographic record of. Now rare.
1897Westm. Gaz. 10 Dec. 10/3 Cinematographing the sun's eclipse. 1898Sci. Amer. Suppl. 26 Feb. 18481 M. Camille Flammarion has undertaken to cinematograph the sky. He takes 3,000 photographs a night when it is clear. 1900Westm. Gaz. 17 Sept. 4/2 The enchanting spectacle which cinematographed itself for us as we ascended. 1907C. Urban Cinematograph 20 The difficulties of cinematographing interiors. |