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Bioscope

noun
1.
A South African movie theater.
2.
A kind of early movie projector.





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"Bioscope" Quotes from Famous Books



... the disk was replaced by a hollow cylinder which had the pictures on the inside and holes to watch them from without while the cylinder was in rotation. From this was developed the popular toy which as the zooetrope or bioscope became familiar everywhere. It was a revolving black cylinder with vertical slits, on the inside of which paper strips with pictures of moving objects in successive phases were placed. The clowns sprang ...
— The Photoplay - A Psychological Study • Hugo Muensterberg


Words linked to "Bioscope" :   movie theatre, movie theater, cine projector, movie projector, film projector, cinema, movie house, picture palace


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