Earliest Kinescope Recordings

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I am fascinated by the decade prior to Video Tape Recording, when kinescope recordings were the only means of recording video.

Kinescope recording began in 1948. I found on YouTube some earlier experimental recordings the earliest from early 1947. Some was recorded in New York evidenced by recent test pattern and an old early NBC logo in a circle. Some were identified as Don Lee who was in Los Angeles.

Many if not most appear to have been taken over the air. You will find amusing the television fare from 1947: a bunch of wrestling, poorly acted plays and an awful talk game show. Some is without sound and looks very experimental.

It starts off with perhaps one of the earliest if not the earliest appearance of President Harry Truman talking about food relief which may be apart of his Marshall Plan? It is obviously well before the '48 Election.

"1947/48 Hubert Chain pre-kinescope television recordings" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/1EM46cqseEw