[Boatanchors] OT: How did they "record" TV in the old days?

[Phil KO6BB]

Hi All,

This is probably OT for this mail list, but I don't know where else to 
ask, and I'm sure that there are some retired Old Time TV engineers on 
this list.

I listen to a Christian radio program on 770AM that is the audio portion 
from an ABC TV Network program that was broadcast coast to coast (Youth 
On The March).  It was broadcast in the earliest days of Television 
(circa 1950 or so).  Sometimes they claim it's an "Iconoscope (sp?) 
recording", but I seem to remember that the Iconoscope was an early TV 
camera tube (later than the spinning disk/light system), other times 
athey just say it's a special Video Recording.

My question is, how would they have recorded the show back then?  The 
only way I can think it was accomplished was by a Movie Camera and film 
with an audio track.
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