[Ads-l] Very Slight Antedating of "Motion Picture"

[Shapiro, Fred]

motion picture (OED 1891 [August])

1891 Huddersfield (England) Daily Examiner 30 July 4/2 (Newspapers.com)

By means of a highly composite mechanism which is to be known as the "kinetograph," or motion-picture, he [Thomas Alva Edison] proposes to combine the agency of electricity,
photography, and the phonograph, for the purpose of reproducing sights and sounds which have their origin far beyond the range of our natural vision.

Fred Shapiro

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