An early motion picture device or camera that recorded and projected moving images, a predecessor to modern film technology.
From Latin 'animatus' (living, animated) combined with Greek 'graphia' (writing/recording). Coined in the late 19th century during the invention of cinema to describe machines that could capture life in motion.
This word represents a pivotal moment in human history—the very first machines that could record living reality! Inventors raced to patent variations of this device, and the race to capture motion on film literally invented the movie industry.
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