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KINESCOPE [8 records]

Record 1 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

kinescope camera: an item in the "Photographic Tools and Equipment" class of the "Tools and Equipment for Communication" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

kinéscope : objet de la classe «Outils et équipement photographiques» de la catégorie «Outillage et équipement pour la communication».

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
  • The Eye

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
  • Oeil
DEF

Instrument utilisé pour déterminer la réfraction de l'œil.

OBS

Le sujet observe un test à travers une fente sténopéique se déplaçant de part et d'autre de l'œil et perçoit un effet sphérique inverse ou un effet sphérique direct.

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Audiovisual Techniques and Equipment
  • Television (Radioelectricity)
DEF

... a process pioneered during the 1940's for the storing of electronically shot television programmes on film, which was used for the preservation, re-broadcasting and sale of television programmes before the use of commercial broadcast-quality videotape became prevalent for these purposes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Audiovisuel (techniques et équipement)
  • Télévision (Radioélectricité)
DEF

[...] procédé d'enregistrement [au cinéscope d'une émission de télévision] et [non] de l'opération. [rubrique cinégramme].

OBS

Ne pas confondre avec «cinégramme», qui est le résultat de ce procédé.

Spanish

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Record 4 2005-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radio Broadcasting
  • Television Arts
  • Cinematography
DEF

A film recording of a television picture, tape or live.

OBS

Kinescopes, which have been replaced by videotape, are no longer common. Originally, kinescope was a synonym for picture tube.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radiodiffusion
  • Télévision (Arts du spectacle)
  • Cinématographie
DEF

Film enregistré au cinéscope.

Spanish

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Record 5 2004-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vacuum Tubes (Electronics)
  • Television (Radioelectricity)
DEF

A cathode-ray tube used in television receivers to produce an image by varying the electron-beam intensity as the beam is deflected from side to side and up and down to scan a raster on the fluorescent screen at the large end of the tube.

OBS

According to the source SPOTEL, the picture tube is called a kinescope in the US.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tubes et lampes (Électronique)
  • Télévision (Radioélectricité)
DEF

Tube cathodique utilisé pour la reproduction des images de télévision.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tubos de vacío (Electrónica)
  • Televisión (Radioelectricidad)
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Record 6 2000-08-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cinematography
  • Television Arts
  • Audiovisual Techniques and Equipment
  • Radio Broadcasting
DEF

A motion-picture projector adapted for use with a television camera tube to televise 24-frame-per-second motion-picture film at the 30-frame-per-second rate required for television.

Key term(s)
  • television filmscanner
  • film scanner
  • filmscanner
  • telecinema
  • telecine setup
  • telecine set-up
  • television cinema
  • telecine

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cinématographie
  • Télévision (Arts du spectacle)
  • Audiovisuel (techniques et équipement)
  • Radiodiffusion
DEF

Appareil permettant le télécinéma, c'est-à-dire la transmission par télévision d'un film cinématographique.

Spanish

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Record 7 2000-08-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Television (Radioelectricity)
  • Television Arts
  • Cinematography
DEF

A television set receiving tube.

OBS

This equipment is used to record television programs.

Key term(s)
  • kinescope film camera
  • kinerecorder

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télévision (Radioélectricité)
  • Télévision (Arts du spectacle)
  • Cinématographie
DEF

Appareil permettant d'enregistrer sur film standard de cinéma des images de télévision, dans le but de les conserver, de les reproduire ou de les diffuser [...]

CONT

1893 : Thomas Alva Edison brevette le cinéscope et met au point la pellicule percée 35mm.

Key term(s)
  • kinéscope
  • eidographe
  • vidigraphe

Spanish

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Record 8 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Television (Radioelectricity)
OBS

--a film recording of a television picture, tape or live.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télévision (Radioélectricité)
OBS

un système d'enregistrement des images de télévision. Appelé abusivement kinescope.

Spanish

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