noun. A movie camera or projector.

noun. A movie theater.

noun. An instrument devised in France for projecting on a screen photographs showing objects in motion.

To photograph with a cinematograph; to make a succession of photographic pictures of objects in motion. Also kinematograph.

noun. an older name for a movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the movie projector are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zoögyroscope, zoöpraxiscope, etc.

noun. A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by the instrument described above.

noun. A camera that could develop its own film and served as its own projector.

"Jules, who had found a sheep-pond in the dark a little lower down, gave what you might call a cinematograph reproduction o 'sporadic musketry."

cinema  cinematography  

Dictaphone  air-charter  anthemic  art-house  biograph  

kinematograph  

animatograph  biograph  bioscope  electrograph  electroscope