kinetoscope
/kɪˈnɛtəˌskoʊp/
noun
- An early motion-picture device, invented by Thomas Edison, in which a person looked through a viewer to watch a short film.
- Before movie theaters, people would pay a penny to watch a film on a kinetoscope.
- The kinetoscope was one of the first machines that allowed people to see moving pictures.
- At the museum, we saw a replica of Edison's kinetoscope and watched a short clip through it.