Kinescope Versus Original Video - Demonstration/Comparison

[mgangi3878]

I'm not sure if I would call Desi a "genius" but he certainly had some good theories. Bing Crosby actually started using the magnetic recording process before "I Love Lucy"

[rockabillycat1954]

@mgangi3878 I Love Lucy was shot with 35mm motion picture FILM cameras on the set, like movie studios used, only difference being is that it was done in front of a studio audience. Video tape was not used. Whereas kinescopes are 16 mm films shot via a television screen during a live show. This is why there is always graininess and distortion with a kinescope, but virtually no grain or distortion with Desilu's 35mm prints which were not televised live, but shown after the fact.

[DrBuzz0]

Interesting to see that the kinescope introduces some distortion by stretching the video and cutting it off.

[Beatles0223]

Desi Arnaz was a friggin' genius. He figured out in the late-1940s it was best to use video for TV shows as opposed to kinescope. Time proved him right.

[mgh0815]

I don't understand why the same camera (kinescope) used to record the image off of the TV screen couldn't have been used to just record the show in the studio. It seems like you are just filming the TV image instead of the actual show. Why not film the actual show instead?

[Beatles0223]

@mgh0815 I was thinking the same thing. 

[paulj0557]

With weed or without.

[blueycarlton]

The Twilights with their late 1965 or early 1966 orginal "If She Finds Out".

This song bought the Adelaide band national attention.

Written by Terry Britten guitar, and Peter Brideoak rhythm guitar.

Other members John Bywaters bass, Laurie Pryor drums, Clem "PaddY" McCartney vocals and Glen Shorrock vocals. (Milesago)

[ohmss006]

If i am correct, there seems to be more detail in the Kinecope version than the Videotape? Also, I think the labeling of the two got mixed up towards the end of the comparision clip :D

[gardnerra2]

Awesome, thanks so much for uploading. Cheers Roy Perth

[promagnum]

I love the look of kinescope recordings. I love the way screen has a black hole where something shiney flashes the camera.

[austvarchive]

@promagnum thats because it was shot on videotape on an image orthicon tube camera, which was standard at the time - its not a result of the kinescope process as such

[sehr56]

@promagnum What gives great approximation of Kinescope is the Fisher-Price, Pixelcam, released in the early 1980s and which used audio cassettes as it's recording medium. It has quite a cult following and occasionally you can find one on ebay,

BTW, isn't the Orthicon tube where we got the name for the television award, the Emmy, which was the engineer's nick name for the Orthicon? Geez now, I'm really giving away my age.......

[Conniptions886]

A great comparison!