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- noun Plural form of
kinescope .
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Examples
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The most important network shows were all performed live in New York, and the only way for West Coast viewers to see them was for fuzzy-looking film copies called "kinescopes" to be shipped to Los Angeles and broadcast a week later.
The More Things on the Small Screen Change ... Terry Teachout 2011
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This produced what are called kinescopes, and it is from those kinescopes that this anthology was produced.
DVD REVIEW: Studio One Anthology: Amazing Programming From the Dawn of the Television Age 2008
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This produced what are called kinescopes, and it is from those kinescopes that this anthology was produced.
EclipseMagazine 2009
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This produced what are called kinescopes, and it is from those kinescopes that this anthology was produced.
EclipseMagazine 2008
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This produced what are called kinescopes, and it is from those kinescopes that this anthology was produced.
EclipseMagazine 2008
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Quite a lot of early TV was filmed for archival purposes, but only a handful of these films, known as "kinescopes," have made it onto DVD.
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“The Golden Age of Television” was originally a PBS miniseries of kinescopes (i.e., a filmed video screen – at the time, the only way to record live broadcasts).
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009
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But it's only the latest example of a found-footage tradition that is celebrated in this 16-film series, focused on artful repurposing of Communist propaganda, Nazi home movies, archival rarities from World Wars I and II, and material collected by network news crews—as in "Point of Order," Emile de Antonio 's landmark distillation of 188 hours of kinescopes from the 1954 Army-McCarthy Senate hearings.
Histories and Mysteries Steve Dollar 2012
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But this nicely restored set has good sound and picture given the source material kinescopes recorded while the show was being performed and loads of extras.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Great Boxed Sets? How Sweet It Is! (Plus The Not So Sweet) Michael Giltz 2011
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The film was edited and rushed out to the kinescopes.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009
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