Kinescope

Ok kiddo, so a kinescope is a really old way of recording moving pictures like TV shows or movies. Back in the olden days, TVs didn't have fancy recordings like we have today. So they had to use a big camera to film the TV screen while the show was playing.

Once the show was recorded on the big camera, they'd play it back on a different TV and have another camera film that screen. This is because the first camera only recorded in black and white, but the second camera could record in color.

Then they would take that second recording and make copies of it so people could watch it later. It was a lot of work to make sure the video quality was good, because there was no room for mistakes.

So that's basically what a kinescope is - a really old way of recording moving pictures. Nowadays, we have much better ways of recording and watching TV shows and movies.