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Telecine machines copied film onto tape

A flying spot scanner read each frame and turned it into a video signal Telecine let broadcasters show films and transfer their own footage to videotape for editing. Early machines scanned the film with a cathode ray tube, and later ones used solid state sensors. The transfer also had to reconcile the frame rate of film with that of television. 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?: A flying spot scanner read each frame and turned it into a video signal. The figure is taken from BFI, 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.