cinematograph
noun
cin·e·mat·o·graph
ˌsi-nə-ˈma-tə-ˌgraf 
chiefly British
: a movie camera, projector, theater, or show
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Help Open Saudi Arabia's Red Sea Film Festival The Lumière’s technical prowess, as inventors of the cinematograph, the groundbreaking photographic camera and projection technology that made films possible, is well-known.
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Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Frémaux, who runs the Institute, gave the crowd a taste of what fresh restorations can do for cinema by showing a selection of the very first films shot by the Lumière Brothers, the inventors of the cinematograph, who give their name to the Institute and the festival.
—Lise Pedersen, Variety, 15 Oct. 2023
Graphic and photographic processes are explained, as well as early cinema, from optical toys to photographic inventions, to the Lumière brothers’ cinematograph.
—The Courier-Journal, 1 Mar. 2023
The hucksters who made a living projecting the cinematograph on a sheet in 1905, in Rivington Street, went west and became known as Mayer, Goldwyn, Laemmle, Warner, and Fox.
—David Mamet, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
Institut Lumière Film lovers won’t want to miss out on Institut Lumière, a museum that pays homage to brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière, the inventors of the cinematograph.
—Christina Liao, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2017
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Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Frémaux, who runs the Institute, gave the crowd a taste of what fresh restorations can do for cinema by showing a selection of the very first films shot by the Lumière Brothers, the inventors of the cinematograph, who give their name to the Institute and the festival.
—Lise Pedersen, Variety, 15 Oct. 2023
Graphic and photographic processes are explained, as well as early cinema, from optical toys to photographic inventions, to the Lumière brothers’ cinematograph.
—The Courier-Journal, 1 Mar. 2023
The hucksters who made a living projecting the cinematograph on a sheet in 1905, in Rivington Street, went west and became known as Mayer, Goldwyn, Laemmle, Warner, and Fox.
—David Mamet, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
Institut Lumière Film lovers won’t want to miss out on Institut Lumière, a museum that pays homage to brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière, the inventors of the cinematograph.
—Christina Liao, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2017
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cinematograph
noun
cin·e·mat·o·graph
ˌsin-ə-ˈmat-ə-ˌgraf
: a visual record obtained by cinematography
cinematographs of the spontaneously fibrillating auricle—The Journal of the American Medical Association
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