Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolescent 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 It has been superseded by recording techniques allowing the sounds to be recorded directly on the motion-picture film.
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Examples
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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.
mental_floss Blog 2009
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Attitudes like yours make it likely they'll want a kinetophone displayed next year at Christmas time.
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Garrick's office, which had been ringing with firearms and shouts from the kinetophone, was again silent.
Guy Garrick 1908
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Garrick's office, which had been ringing with firearms and shouts from the kinetophone, was again silent.
Guy Garrick 1908
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He was the skilled operator of the kinetophone, whom Garrick had hired.
Guy Garrick 1908
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Garrick's office, which had been ringing with firearms and shouts from the kinetophone, was again silent.
Guy Garrick 1908
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He was the skilled operator of the kinetophone, whom Garrick had hired.
Guy Garrick 1908
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"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."
Guy Garrick 1908
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"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."
Guy Garrick 1908
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He was the skilled operator of the kinetophone, whom Garrick had hired.
Guy Garrick 1908
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