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单词 mutoscope
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mutoscopen.

Brit. /ˈmjuːtəskəʊp/, U.S. /ˈmjudəˌskoʊp/
Forms: 1800s– mutoscope, 1900s– mutascope.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin mūtāre , -scope comb. form.
Etymology: < muto- , taken as combining form of classical Latin mūtāre to change (see mutate v.) + -scope comb. form.
Originally U.S. Now historical.
A device for viewing a series of photographs of a moving object (usually taken with a mutograph) in quick succession, giving the impression of a moving picture. Also: a booklet of such photographs, producing the same effect when its pages are flicked through rapidly.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > projection > [noun] > apparatus for projecting films
kinematoscope1861
tachyscope1889
kinetoscope1894
kinematograph1895
mutoscope1895
biograph1896
cinematograph1896
cinematoscope1896
kinetophone1896
theatroscope1896
vitascope1896
bioscope1897
polyscope1900
cinema1908
cinephone1909
cine projector1916
animatograph1919
1895 H. Casler U.S. Patent 549,309 1/1 This invention relates to what I choose to call ‘mutoscopes’ or devices for showing the changing positions of a body or bodies in action.
1897 Sci. Amer. 17 Apr. 249/1 Prints..for use in the..mutoscope machines.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 11 Feb. 7/2 The Biograph and Mutoscope are two inventions for the reproduction of objects in motion.
1901 World's Work Aug. 1057/2 As the cylinder is revolved the mounted pictures..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.
1904 ‘O. Henry’ in Everybody's Mag. Feb. 173/2 Few accurate pictures of this kind have been made, for art galleries are so small and the mutoscope is as yet unknown in Texas.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiii. [Nausicaa] 351 Mutoscope pictures in Capel street: for men only.
1969 Jabez 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.
1989 New Yorker 23 Jan. 26/2 I stopped to peer into a mutoscope..roughly the shape of a large gumball machine—a turn-of-the-century penny-arcade version of the movies.

Derivatives

mutoˈscopic adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > projection > [adjective] > apparatus
kinetoscopic1894
bioscopic1899
mutoscopic1899
1899 Westm. Gaz. 3 Aug. 3/1 The impression that we have been indulging in a mutoscopic debauch.
1902 S. Smith My Life Work xlv. 464 Pictures and mutoscopic exhibitions which corrupted the young wholesale.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mutoscopev.

Brit. /ˈmjuːtəskəʊp/, U.S. /ˈmjudəˌskoʊp/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mutoscope n.
Etymology: < mutoscope n.
rare. Now historical.
transitive. To photograph (a moving object) for the purpose of viewing with a mutoscope; to exhibit (photographs) using a mutoscope.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > photograph [verb (transitive)] > in specific manner
to fire away1859
stereograph1860
flashlight1886
shoot1890
snap1890
Kodak1891
snapshot1898
mug1899
mutoscope1899
telephotograph1899
mutograph1908
photomaton1927
soft-focus1928
minicam1937
microfiche1975
pap1993
1899 Westm. Gaz. 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.
1928 Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. Mutoscope, to show (pictures) with the aid of a mutoscope.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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