chronophotography

chrono- +‎ photography

• Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi

chronophotography (uncountable)

1. (photography) An antique photographic technique from the Victorian era which captures movement in several frames of print.
   • 2008 May 21, Melena Ryzik, “Telescope Takes a Long View, to London”, in New York Times‎:

     And since he studies 19th-century chronophotography —— sometimes called precinema or pre-cinematography —— for his day job as a professor of animation at London Metropolitan University, he knew where (and when) to begin looking for model machinery.

• photochronography