chronophotography
English
editEtymology
editFrom chrono- + photography.
Pronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Noun
editchronophotography (uncountable)
- (photography) An antique photographic technique from the Victorian era which captures movement in several frames of print.
- 2008 May 21, Melena Ryzik, “Telescope Takes a Long View, to London”, in New York Times[1]:
- 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.
Translations
editphotographic technique which captures movement in several frames
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