cinematographic, a.
(sɪnɪmætəʊˈgræfɪk)
[f. cinematograph n. + -ic.]
Of, pertaining to, concerned with the cinematograph or cinematography.
| 1897 C. M. Hepworth Animated Photogr. 90 The shutter is an important detail in the cinematographic camera. Ibid. 92 The lens which is best suited for cinematographic projection. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 6 May 8/2 The celluloid films upon which the cinematographic pictures are printed. 1898 Ibid. 3 May 5/2 Cinematographic experts. 1928 Observer 15 July 13/1 A skilled photographer, he is making a cinematographic record of his tour. 1959 Camb. Rev. 25 Apr. 449/2 In Summer with Monika many of the images..are uniquely cinematographic, and evade obvious verbal categories. |
Hence ˌcinematoˈgraphical a.; also ˌcinematoˈgraphically adv.
| 1898 Westm. Gaz. 21 May 6/3 The photograph was produced, and others, and his lordship, passing them before the interviewer's eyes cinematographically, clearly illustrated the process. 1913 F. S. Carey G. Goodwill's Elem. Mech. Pref. 5 The cinematographical pictures by which the motion of balls moving under gravity is exhibited. 1923 Contemp. Rev. Jan. 71 The most striking analogy of Bergson was to speak of the intellect as cinematographical. 1928 Daily Express 12 Dec. 19 The almost cinematographically spectacular speed of his dash to his father's sick-bed. 1928 East End Star Mar. 1/3 The parables of the New Testament..were..cinematographical nearly two thousand years before the cinema. |