Also cin-. [ad. Fr. cinématographe, f. Gr. κίνημα, κῑνηματο- motion + -GRAPH.] A contrivance (invented by Messrs. Lumière of Paris) by which a series of instantaneous photographs taken in rapid succession can be projected on a screen with similar rapidity, so as to give a life-like reproduction of the original moving scene.
1896. Daily News, 21 Feb., 8/4. An exhibition of the ‘Cinématographe,’ in the Marlborough Hall of the Polytechnic, Regent-street, yesterday afternoon. The ‘Cinématographe’ is an invention of MM. Lumiere, and it is a contrivance by which a real scene of life and movement may be reproduced before an audience in a life size picture.
1897. Westm. Gaz., 5 May, 8/1. It was the lamp of the kinematograph which set the place on fire.
1897. Pop. Sci. Monthly, Dec., 180. In the cinematograph … they are projected upon a screen.
1899. J. Ralph, in Harper’s Mag., Feb., 385/1. What is called ‘the American Biograph’—an improved form of the kinematograph.
fig. 1899. Month, April, 378. Reducing to order and viewing synoptically the kinematograph of life.
Hence Kinematographic a.
1897. Westm. Gaz., 6 May, 8/2. The celluloid films upon which the cinematographic pictures are printed.
1900. N. & Q., 9th Ser. VI. 206/2. A novel by … Galdós … with a wonderful kinematographic style.
