kinescope
1
9.9
- noun
- /ˈkɪnɪˌskoʊp/
- Archaic
:
cinescopio
- I tell him that they show kinescopes of "Mr. Peepers" before matinees.
Examples
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l was just looking at a kinescope of your appearance on Twenty-One, and l noticed--
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- Yeah, and l have it on the kinescope, okay ?
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I'll put it on a kinescope, push through the end.
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Somebody on her staff got a hold of a kinescope of Anderson making that.
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Then a couple of the jokers over in archival sent over a kinescope of a little treat featuring you.
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"But God help me," Byron Solomon was saying, "if there's a kinescope floating around of my episode of Judge Roy Bean."
Fiction book (1994) -
Atlanta's viewers tuning in to WSB now saw programming and sports events with a nationwide audience, even though the kinescope-taped reels still flew into the city on a daily basis.
Academic text (2007) -
CREDIT INTERLUDE featuring the song "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" as sung by an undetermined country or pop star like k.d. lang or Bob Dylan in an old television kinescope piece of film like you might see on early 1950s television sets.
Fiction book (1993) -
He watched a kinescope of the classic television show, capturing a moment from the past.
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The university has preserved a rare kinescope of the historic broadcast for future generations.
Synonyms
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1.0
A recording of moving pictures used for entertainment or information
Surface Forms
Morphology
kinescope = kine + scope
This recording sense is a later metonymic extension from the television-tube sense, so the connection to the parts remains obscure for most learners.
Etymology
Kinescope comes from Greek parts kinesis 'movement' and skopein 'to look', so it means 'looking at movement'. That's why a kinescope was also the film made by pointing a camera at a TV screen to record a moving show.