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by GeompMankle 1285 days ago
It would be a film video camera if they developed the film in quasi-realtime and then fed it into a scanner or a flying spot mechanism to read out pixels or a video signal. I would donate to a gofundme that wanted to do such a crazy thing.
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I can't find a reference now, but there was some kind of military radar control system, which painted real-time light on film, which was continuously developed and projected on large projectors. It wasn't exactly video, but vector graphics, updated with a new frame every few seconds if I recall. A really wondrous system, with a built in permanent record of what had been shown on screen. (I wonder if these projectors were the inspiration for the projectors in War Games.)