kinescope
- n a cathode-ray tube in a television receiver; translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen
- On the other hand, a film (or kinescope) clip is still just a clip.
- In the early '50s, most TV shows were performed for live broadcast in New York City, and stations around the country played a kinescope, a copy of the show filmed from a TV screen .
- Back in the kinescope era, Freshman Senator Estes Kefauver starred in a dramatic series of organized- crime hearings; the next year he almost won the 1952 Democratic presidential .