cinemagraph

English

Noun

cinemagraph (plural cinemagraphs)

1. A digital image in which an element or small area is animated, such as in an animated GIF.
   • 2013, Monique Vescia, David Karp and Tumblr, →ISBN:

     One creative form of advertising that has already created a stir in the Tumblrverse makes use of a new visual medium called a cinemagraph, a still photograph in which a minor and repeated movement occurs.

   • 2014, David Busch, David Busch's Sony Alpha a5000/ILCE-5000 Guide to Digital Photography, →ISBN:

     The camera will fire 18 JPEGs and then it will provide a preview image with a brush tool that you can use to specify the area that will be animated: depicted as moving in the cinemagraph.

   • 2016, Anna Fox, Richard Sawdon Smith, Langford's Basic Photography, →ISBN, page 477:

     In fact, shooting and editing a cinemagraph can be easy; it is its content that will make it successful.

2. (archaic) A movie, especially one from the silent era.
   • 1921, George W. Beynon, Musical Presentation of Motion Pictures, page 3:

     Intermittently might be heard the voice of the “barker” droning his droll catch-phrases, informing the inquisitive populace that for “one dime, ten cents or a tenth part of a dollar," they could see “the greatest wonder of the age, the cinemagraph showing -- MOV-ING PIC'-CHURES."

   • 2003, David Kiehn, Broncho Billy and the Essanay Film Company, →ISBN, page 5:

     At the end of each a sign is thrown from the cinemagraph on the canvas announcing that those who came late may stay for the next 'performance.'

   • 2010, Lyn Andrews, The House on Lonely Street, →ISBN:

     Once they all went to a dance hall called the Rialto which she hadn't liked much, but when they went to the cinemagraph, she'd really enjoyed it.