单词 | mutoscope |
释义 | mutoscopen. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. rare. Now historical. transitive. To photograph (a moving object) for the purpose of viewing with a mutoscope; to exhibit (photographs) using a mutoscope. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1895v.1899 |
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