The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Vitascope \Vi"ta*scope\, n. [L. vita life + -scope.]
A form of machine for exhibiting animated pictures.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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,
zoogyroscope, zoopraxiscope, 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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by
the instrument described above.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]