""We'll begin this very evening," said Rivington, him- self interested, like a good fellow. "Dine with me at seven, and then I'll steer 'you up against metropolitan phases so thick you'll have to have a kinetoscope to record 'em."

Kinetoscope
n : (trade name) a device invented by Edison that gave an
impression of movement as an endless loop of film moved
continuously over a light source with a rapid shutter;
precursor of the modern motion picture [syn: Kinetoscope]