cinematograph

plural cinematographs

1. historicalA camera that could develop its own film and served as its own projector.

   Flashes from the other groups of monitors and the heavy siege guns keep the whole sky lit up, flicking their flashes on the cloud-ridden celestial screen like a badly worked cinematograph.

   1919, Stanley W. Coxon, chapter 13, in Dover During the Dark Days, London: John Lane, page 222

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   “Oh, you mean the cinematograph—the pictures of prize-fights and steamers. I’ve seen ’em up country.” “Biograph or cinematograph was what I was alludin’ to. London Bridge with the omnibuses—a troopship goin’ to the war—marines on parade at Portsmouth an’ the Plymouth Express arrivin’ at Paddin’ton.” “Seen ’em all. Seen ’em all,” said Hooper impatiently.

   1904, Rudyard Kipling, “Mrs Bathurst”, in Traffics and Discoveries, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 326

   Synonyms: kinematograph

present singular third person cinematographs · participle present cinematographing · participle past cinematographed · past cinematographed

1. rareTo employ the techniques of cinematography.