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

[J. Forster]

On film, like a movie. A movie camera looking at a CRT monitor. It is
called a "Kinescope" recording.

-John

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> 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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