Kinetophone

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  kinetophone \ki*ne"to*phone\, n. [See {Kinetic}, {Phone}.]
     A machine combining a kinetoscope and a phonograph
     synchronized so as to reproduce a scene and its accompanying
     sounds. It has been superseded by recording techniques
     allowing the sounds to be recorded directly on the
     motion-picture film. [obsolescent]


     [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]