| word | kinescope |
|---|---|
| definition | A motion picture made from an image on a picture tube. |
| eg_sentence | In the archives she turned up several kinescopes of Ernie Kovacs's 1950s show, which she thought had been dumped into New York Harbor decades ago. |
| explanation | Kinescope, originally a trademark for the cathode-ray tube in a TV, later became the name for a film of a TV screen showing a live broadcast. In order for a program to be seen beyond New York in the early days of TV, a kinescope had to be shipped from station to station. Though grainy and fuzzy, these were for a time the only way of capturing live shows. But in 1951 Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball decided to film their comedy show rather than to broadcast it live, and in a few years live broadcast comedy and drama had vanished from the airwaves |
| IPA | kinescope* |
Tags: mwvb::unit:18, mwvb::unit:18:word, mwvb::word, mwvb::word-cloze, mwvb::word-reverse, obsidian_to_anki
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