Definition of "kinetograph" [ki•ne•to•graph]

• A camera for making chronophotographs. (noun)
• A machine for the projection of chronophotographs upon a screen for the purpose of producing the effect of an animated picture. (noun)
• A combined animated-picture machine and phonograph in which sounds appropriate to the scene are automatically uttered by the latter instrument. It has been superseded by recording techniques allowing the sounds to be recorded directly on the motion-picture film. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "“The kinetograph will be the illustrator of daily life; not only shall we see it operating in its case, but by a system of lenses and reflectors all the figures in action which it will present in photochromo may be projected upon large white screens in our own homes."
• "Those who wish to see the kinetograph at work will please go within."
• "Next week, if it's successful, we shall produce it with scenery and effects on the kinetograph."