kinescope
Americannoun
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a cathode-ray tube with a fluorescent screen on which an image is reproduced by a directed beam of electrons.
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the motion-picture record of a television program.
verb (used with object)
noun
Etymology
Origin of kinescope
First recorded in 1930–35; formerly trademark
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Special thanks to Joe Wren, who made the expert kinescope transfers.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2022
“One of my more recent finds is a kinescope of Shelley and Sarah’s appearance on ‘Person to Person’ from November 1960,” he said in an email.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2018
The then seven-year-old was mourning his father, who had died months earlier, and the kinescope, black and white images beaming in from Minnesota were serving as a welcome distraction.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2015
I have no idea, but I'm sure it isn't that, because they found an old kinescope where Jim McKay said the same thing: "a mob at the 18th."
From Golf Digest ● May 15, 2012
The 50-year-old kinescope of the game — which The New York Times reported last week was found in Bing Crosby’s old wine cellar — does not do any of that.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2010
The programs will be kinescoped for repeat telecasts or classroom use.
From Time Magazine Archive
TV audiences saw his image and heard his voice in a report on the Manila Pact, which he had kinescoped earlier in the day.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the Polaris sub George Washington, for example, sailors will soon attend classes in everything from calculus to computers, recently took a Harvard extension course using kinescoped TV lectures by Historian Crane Brinton.
From Time Magazine Archive
Produced in Hollywood and kinescoped throughout the country by CBS, Young's first show seemed to have a bit more polish and technical perfection than the mill run of TV comedy programs.
From Time Magazine Archive
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