Before videotape we didn't have a way to store the analog signal sent to TVs. So studios pointed a film camera at a TV screen to record*, and then pointed a TV camera at a projector to rebroadcast it later. What are some similarly ridiculous, pragmatic hacks in modern software?
Also the investment in videotape didn't happen because all of this was ridiculous. It happened because it was hard to develop the film fast enough for rebroadcast on the west coast, and film itself was relatively expensive.
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it was so expensive that the studio making I Love Lucy didn’t want to pay for it! so the two of them started a production company to pay for it themselves in exchange for owning the tapes of what would become one of the most widely syndicated showed ever made
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