CINEMA

CINEMATOGRAPH, kĭn-ẹ-măt′ō-grăf (Gr. κίνημα ‘movement,’ from κινεῖν, ‘to move’), an ingenious instrument introduced about 1895 by two brothers Lumière of Lyons, and founded on the same principle as Edison’s kinetoscope—the persistence of vision. The characteristic part of the instrument...