In a book written by Granville Penn in 1912, various clock dials have been illustrated. These dials depict the various stages of human life, from childhood to death, and from death to after life. Penn called these dials bioscope.
Just as the horoscope measures the movement of birth with heaven, bioscope can be seen as a general measure of human life.
Related to cinema, or for that matter, related to moving pictures, this term is used first in Herman Hecht’s Pre-Cinema History.
In 1929, Max Skladanovsky called his projector bioscope.
The Vitascope, invented by Edison, had many limitations in functioning as a travelling projector. The Vitascope needed electricity to work. That apart, it had a LIMITATION of being unable to project any film roll greater than 50 FEET in length. So the projector would have to be frequently stopped in order to change the film. Overcoming these limitations, the projector refined by Charles Urban came into use around 1900. Charles Urban called his projector, with the ability to project up to 750 feet, bioscope. It is this apparatus that was in use in moving theatres in India in the early 20th century. It is this too that appears as the protagonist of this film, also called Bioscope.
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