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Definition of vitascope

vitascope
Cinematograph Cin`e*mat"o*graph, n. [Gr. ?, ?, motion + -graph.] 1. A machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 a second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture machine; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other common names for the cinematograph are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zo["o]gyroscope, zo["o]praxiscope, etc.
Vitascope
Vitascope Vi"ta*scope, n. [L. vita life + -scope.] A form of machine for exhibiting animated pictures.

Meaning of vitascope from wikipedia

- Vitascope was an early film projector first demonstrated in 1895 by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. They had made modifications to Jenkins'...
- Thomas Edison, who changed the name of the projector to Edison's Vitascope. With the Vitascope, Edison began public showings of his films at Cleveland Clinic...
- 1900s which had hand-cranked films and stereoscope gl****es, as well as vitascope theaters. These attractions featured topless women, full frontal nudity...
- producer. He founded the production companies Deutsche Bioscope, Deutsche Vitascope and Greenbaum-Film and was a dominant figure in German cinema in the years...
- 1896, he developed the first m****-produced live imaging device, his "Vitascope", later called the fluoroscope, which became the standard for medical...
- called the Vitascope is designed by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. Armat began working with Thomas Edison to manufacture the Vitascope, which projected...
- first publicly exhibited May 20, 1891. In April 1896, Thomas Armat's Vitascope, manufactured by the Edison factory and marketed in Edison's name, was...
- In this 1896 lithograph of people watching a Vitascope film, the curtains just left of the screen mark the top and sides of a box, with several people...
- famous in cinema history as the site of the first public exhibition of the Vitascope on April 23, 1896. Albert Bial booked some of the greatest variety and...
- projectors, including Thomas Armat's projector, marketed by Edison as the Vitascope, had used a "beater mechanism", invented by Georges Demenÿ in 1893, to...