[78-L] Kinescopes (WAS Average Age)

[Randy Watts]

I don't know when broadcasters stopped airing kinescopes, but they were still being made into the 1970s. A film collector I used to know owned black and white kines of two early "All in the Family" episodes. Perhaps kinescopes retained a practical value in the days before videocassettes when reference copies were required. A 16mm print of a television show would have been easier, and more portable, to deal with than the same show on videotape.
 
Randy 


--- On Mon, 11/15/10, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Kines existed later than we might
> think. I can remember watching Ernie Kovacs 
> on (most likely) Channel 7 in Buffalo in the early 60s and
> the quality was 
> horrible..it was still coming to them on kinescope. And the
> CBC was late to get 
> videotape..Ed Sullivan taped a special piece to run on the
> Wayne & Shuster show 
> up here, after their early successes on his show, and sent
> it to Toronto (my 
> mother may actually have been the mule). The Corpse had to
> find somebody to 
> transfer it to FILLUM so they could run it live. Needless
> to say, it looked awful.
> 
> Hey, I regularly write about things I know nothing about.
> 
> dl