U.S. [f. L. vīta life + -SCOPE.] A variety of kinematograph.
1896. Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, 4 April, 1/2. The vitascope throws upon a screen by means of bright lights and powerful lenses the moving life size figures of human beings and animals.
1896. N. Amer. Rev., Sept., 380. As yet, vitascope exhibitions are confined to episodes lasting from two to five minutes.
1897. Pop. Sci. Monthly, Dec., 180. In some forms of apparatus, such as the vitascope,… the shutter is omitted.
