animatographn.

1896 Daily News 26 Mar. 3/6 At a neighbouring house we have the ‘cinematographe’, and by way of varying the title Mr. Paul calls his pictures the ‘Animatographe’.

1896 Fun 7 Apr. 138 The Alhambra now has its Cinématographe, only they call it the Animatograph. Well, living photos by any name wobble more or less.

1933 Amer. Speech 8 73/2 Kineoptican, kinetoscope, animatograph.., and other classical compounds became first motion pictures, then moving pictures.., and finally that endearing diminutive movies.

1978 R. D. Altick Shows of London 506/2 The modern motion picture... A few days later [in 1896], it was introduced at the Empire (as the kinetoscope or cinematograph) and at the Alhambra (as the animatograph).

1898 Field 12 Feb. 213/2 I noticed..a man with an animatograph, and, as there was a good fence to start with, and I know one spill, the photos should not lack animation.

1919 G. H. Trafton Text-bk. Gen. Sci. ii. xxviii. 446 The first attempts to project moving pictures on a screen..were made in England by Robert W. Paul. He called his machine the animatograph.

1990 P. Saettler Evol. Amer. Educ. Technol. iv. 99 Victor Animatograph Company. This company was founded by Alexander F. Victor..in Davenport, Iowa, in 1910. A year before, Victor had invented the Animatograph, the first portable projector that combined a camera with sound-on-disc.

1896 Westm. Gaz. 1 Dec. 5/2 It was in the interests of a new development of the photographic process, by which pictures are obtained for the animatographic exhibitions that are so successful as a source of amusement.

1970 J. A. Kerr Aspects of Time (Ph.D. Dissertation, Univ. of Wisconsin) ii. vii. 532 The temporal focus of the novel becomes sharper, with descriptions of the early automobile age..and allusions to the animatographic shows of the time.

1896 Photogr. News 18 Dec. 818/2 Messrs. Swan & Edgar..make an additional bid for the patronage of the fair sex by giving gratuitously each afternoon displays of animatography.

2000 R. Paige Death at Whitechapel iv. 34 In another corner..was his new experiment in animatography: a Prestwich Magazine Camera that stored up to 100 feet of film.