Definition of "kinescope" []

• See picture tube. (noun)
• A film of a transmitted television program. (noun)
• To make a film of (a transmitted television program). (verb-transitive)

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• "This 1959 live TV drama, which survives on DVD via a kinescope, is one of the few that made it to the screen."
• "And the only way to record a television production was what's called a kinescope, which was -- a movie camera sat in front of a-- of a TV screen and produced very poor quality images."
• "Look up the word, "kinescope," and you will see that suggestion is really going back to the future."