Bioscope \Bi"o*scope\, n. [Gr. bi`os life + -scope.] 1. A view of life; that which gives such a view.
Bagman's Bioscope: Various Views of Men and Manners. [Book Title.] --W. Bayley (1824). [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. An animated picture machine for screen projection; a cinematograph (which see); an archaic term replaced by {movie projector}. [archaic] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. a South African movie theater. [WordNet 1.5]
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}, {zo["o]gyroscope}, {zo["o]praxiscope}, 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.]