Chronophotography

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An antique photographic technique from the Victorian era which captures movement in several frames of print. uncountable

    "And since he studies 19th-century chronophotography —— sometimes called precinema or pre-cinematography —— for his day job as a professor of animation at London Metropolitan University, he knew where (and when) to begin looking for model machinery."

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photography

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"And since he studies 19th-century chronophotography —— sometimes called precinema or pre-cinematography —— for his day job as a professor of animation at London Metropolitan University, he knew where (and when) to begin looking for model machinery."

Etymology

From chrono- + photography.

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