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mutoscope
(redirected from What the butler saw machine)

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Mu´to`scope
n.1.A simple form of moving-picture machine in which the series of views, exhibiting the successive phases of a scene, are printed on paper and mounted around the periphery of a wheel. The rotation of the wheel brings them rapidly into sight, one after another, and the blended effect gives a semblance of motion.
mutoscope
an instrument for recording and reproducing the illusion of motion by means of a series of photographs.
See also: Instruments, Photography
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We'd hate to think it was one of those What The Butler Saw machines .
off the Record by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
No names,no packdrill, but apparently the What The Butler Saw machine took a heck of a kicking.
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