Definition of "kinetoscope" []

• An early device for exhibiting motion pictures, creating the illusion of movement from a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images that is conveyed over a light source with a high-speed shutter. (noun)

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• "The party stayed to the very end of the show, though the kinetoscope was the last number but one on the programme, and fully half the audience left immediately afterward."
• "But the picture producer holds to his eyes the seven-leagued demon spy-glass called the kinetoscope, as the audience will do later."
• "It didn’t, but Fancy knew what Kit meant: that the kinetoscope was a cellar dweller like them, and out of its element among the bright beauty of the Woodsons’ flower garden."