"What is a Kinescope, and how does it differ from tape or film?" Two episodes of To Tell the Truth (1962 nighttime, 1966 daytime) can show you! See the video for the opening of a show from 1962 preserved as a Kinescope, and a 1966 daytime show's opening from videotape. The overwhelming majority of game shows that exist prior to the mid-late 1960s were originally preserved as black and white "kinescopes" regardless of whether the show originally broadcast in black and white or in color. A kinesco