The Collaborative International Dictionary
kinetophone
kinetophone \ki*ne"to*phone\, n. [See Kinetic, Phone.] A machine combining a kinetoscope and a phonograph synchronized so as to reproduce a scene and its accompanying sounds. It has been superseded by recording techniques allowing the sounds to be recorded directly on the motion-picture film. [obsolescent]
Usage examples of "kinetophone".
He was the skilled operator of the kinetophone, whom Garrick had hired.
Garrick's office, which had been ringing with firearms and shouts from the kinetophone, was again silent.