Thomas Edison was the first to invent a practical motion picture camera. The camera was called a kinetograph, and the projector called a kinetoscope. One of the big breakthroughs was that the kinetograph used roll film developed by George Eastman rather than single-plate film.

Ki*ne"to*graph (?), n. [Gr. &?; movable + -graph.] (Physics)

(a)

A camera for making chronophotographs.

(b)

A machine for the projection of chronophotographs upon a screen for the purpose of producing the effect of an animated picture.

(c)

A combined animated-picture machine and phonograph in which sounds appropriate to the scene are automatically uttered by the latter instrument.

© Webster 1913.