Kinescope

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Kinescope , shortened to kine , also known as telerecording in Britain, is a recording of a television program on motion picture film directly through a lens focused on the screen of a video monitor. The process was pioneered during the 1940s for the preservation, re-broadcasting, and sale of television programs before the introduction of quadruplex videotape, which was released in 1956 and superseded the use of kinescopes for all of these purposes by the 1970s. Kinescopes were the only practical way to preserve live television broadcasts prior to the availability of videotape equipment. Typically, the term can refer to the process itself, the equipment used for the procedure (a movie camera mounted in front of a video monitor and synchronized to the monitor's scanning rate), or a film made using the process. Film recorders are similar, but record source material from a computer system instead of a television broadcast. A telecine is the inverse device, used to show film directly on television...

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