Movies for TV - Early Television Foundation

CHAPTER
KINESCOPE RECORDING
The term kinescope recording is one which lends itself very con-
word for a film made of the
veniently for use as the descriptive
picture appearing on the screen of a picture tube, or kinescope, in
a monitor or receiver. Other words have been, and are, used to
describe such films, among them being video recording. But al-
though the latter is certainly very concise, the author prefers kine-
scope recording. Use of the word kinescope in this connection makes
it available as a verb, as in "kinescoped." Thus television is re-
sponsible, as was radio, for the creation of a new word. Whichever
one is used does not matter as long as the intention is the same.
Phonograph records appeared long
before radio was heard:
similarly, films were in use long before television; in fact,
it can
really be said long before radio telephony. Thus, in the early days
of radio, programs of "preserved" music were available. True, they
were recorded on the early acoustic machines in which the artists
had to shout into a tin horn, but the advent of radio also brought
improvements into the field of phonograph recordings and made
possible the electrical recording or transcription. Today all phono-
graph, as well as special records for radio, are made by electrical
means. It is common practice to make a recording of a radio show
and it play back over the air at a more suitable time; this is called
a delayed broadcast.
Not so long ago the New York studios of the national radio net-
works used to have two performances of each of their most popular
shows because the time on the west coast was three hours behind
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