Definition of "kinetophone" [ki•ne•to•phone]

• A machine combining a kinetoscope and a phonograph synchronized so as to reproduce a scene and its accompanying sounds. It has been superseded by recording techniques allowing the sounds to be recorded directly on the motion-picture film. (noun)

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• "You can see where he was going with this one - the kinetophone was a phonograph inside of a cabinet, and while it played through a couple of ear tubes - very primitive headphones, I suppose - the viewer would watch images."
• "Attitudes like yours make it likely they'll want a kinetophone displayed next year at Christmas time."
• ""It is, as you perhaps have already guessed, the latest product of this genius of sound and sight, the kinetophone, the machine that combines moving pictures with the talking machine.""