Does anyone know what a kinemascope is?

Question

It sounds like "kinescope" which has a lengthy article on wikipedia, but it might be something completely different. Anyone know for sure?

Answer 1

*THERE ARE TWO OPTIONS:

*One of the foremost figures in the complex history of television is Vladimir Zworykin, who invented the "iconoscope," "kinemascope," and "storage principle" that became the basis of TV as we know it.
*Zworykin continued his television work on his own time, and produced both the "kinescope," a more sophisticated cathode-ray picture tube, and the "iconoscope," the first all-electronic camera tube.
*CinemaScope was a widescreen movie format used from 1953 to 1967. Anamorphic lenses allowed the process to project film up to a 2.66:1 aspect ratio, twice as wide as the conventional format of 1.33:1. Although CinemaScope was shortly made obsolete by new technological developments, the anamorphic presentation of films initiated by CinemaScope in the 1950s has continued to this day.

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Answer 2

The kinemascope is invention of Vladimir K. Zworykin (1889-1982)

It figures prominently in the development of television. (receivers)

There is too much to summarize succinctly, I have to refer you to these pages:

Zworykin's BIO:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zworykin
(it includes a picture of the original kinemascope :))

MIT's Inventor of the Week:
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/zworykin.html

Without Zworykin's contributions, television might not have developed until much later.

He started in the US with Westinghouse in the early 1920's... and moved to RCA by the end of the decade.

I hope you find this info useful :)

Answer 3

There WAS a method of projecting movies called "Cinemascope" which enhanced 3-d perception, and probably did away with the colored eye-glass movies.