What is "bioscope"

Cinematograph \Cin`e*mat"o*graph\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, motion + -graph.]

1. an older name for a movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the movie projector are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zo["o]gyroscope, zo["o]praxiscope, etc.

   The cinematograph, invented by Edison in 1894, is the result of the introduction of the flexible film into photography in place of glass.
   --Encyc. Brit.

2. A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by the instrument described above.

n. 1 An early form of movie projector 2 (context South Africa dated English) A cinema or movie theatre.

1. n. a South African movie theater

2. a kind of early movie projector

Bioscope may refer to:

• An early generic name for a movie camera
• Various specific models of movie camera and movie projector
  • The Urban Bioscope or Warwick Bioscope, camera and projector
  • Emil and Max Skladanowsky's Bioscop
• A bioscope show, a travelling movie theatre
• An obsolete regional term for a movie theatre
• Bioscope (film), a 2008 Indian film
• Le Bioscope, a former theme park in France

Bioscope is a 2008 Malayalam film produced by National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC) and directed by K. M. Madhusudhanan. The film won a Special Jury award at the 56th National Film Awards and also won 5 awards in the 2008 Kerala State Film Awards.

Bioscope is a television series based on feature films.