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The Emmy statuette is named for an image orthicon

The nickname comes from the camera tube engineers called the Immy The statuette was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, using his wife as the model, and the academy chose the name Emmy from the informal term Immy for the image orthicon camera tube. It is a winged woman holding an atom. The trophy has been made by the same workshop for decades. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The nickname comes from the camera tube engineers called the Immy. The figure is taken from Television Academy, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.