Editing Kinescope (section)

== Decline ==
In the late 1960s, U.S. television networks continued to make kinescopes of their daytime dramas available, many of which still aired live during that time period, for their smaller network [[affiliates]] that did not yet have videotape capability but wished to time-shift the network programming. Some of these programs aired up to two weeks after their original dates, particularly in [[Alaska]] and [[Hawaii]]. Many episodes of programs from the 1960s survive only through kinescoped copies.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bianculli|first=David|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9i0yDwAAQBAJ&q=%22soap+opera%22+kinescope&pg=PA131|title=The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific|date=2017|publisher=Anchor Books|isbn=978-1-101-91132-7|pages=131|language=en}}</ref>

In Australia, kinescopes were still being made of some evening news programs as late as 1977, if they were recorded at all. A recording of a 1975 episode of Australian series ''[[This Day Tonight]]'' is listed on the National Archives of Australia website as a kinescope,<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/SessionTimeout.aspx|title=Session expired &#124; RecordSearch &#124; National Archives of Australia|website=Recordsearch.naa.gov.au}}</ref> while surviving episodes of the 1978 drama series ''[[The Truckies]]'' also exist as kinescopes,<ref name="auto"/> indicating that the technology was still being used by the [[ABC Television (Australian TV network)|ABC]] at that point.

Until the early 1960s, much of the BBC's output, and British television in general, was broadcast live, and entire drama productions were performed live for a second time until recording methods improved. Eventually, telerecordings would be used to preserve a program for repeat showings. In the UK, telerecordings continued to be made after the introduction of commercial broadcast videotape in 1958 as they possessed several distinct advantages. Firstly, they were easier to transport and more durable than videotape. Secondly, they could be used in any country regardless of the television broadcasting standard, which was not true of videotape. Later, the system could be used to make black-and-white copies of color programs for sale to television stations that were not yet broadcasting in color.

The system was largely used for black-and-white reproduction. Although some color telerecordings were made, they were generally in the minority as by the time color programs were widely needed for sale, video standards conversion was easier and higher quality and the price of videotape had become much reduced. Before videotape became the exclusive recording format during the early to mid-1980s, any (color) video recordings used in documentaries or filmed program inserts were usually transferred onto film.{{clarify|reason=transferred to film from what?|date=October 2022}}

In the 1950s a home telerecording kit was introduced in Britain, allowing enthusiasts to make 16&nbsp;mm film recordings of television programs.{{Citation needed|date=October 2011}} The major drawback, apart from the short duration of a 16&nbsp;mm film magazine, was that a large opaque frame had to be placed in front of the TV set in order to block out any stray reflections, making it impossible to watch the set normally while filming. It is not known if any recordings made using this equipment still exist.

British broadcasters used telerecordings for domestic purposes well into the 1960s, with 35&nbsp;mm film usually used as it produced a higher quality result. For overseas sales, 16&nbsp;mm film would be used, as it was cheaper. Although domestic use of telerecording in the UK for repeat broadcasts dropped off sharply after the move to colour in the late 1960s, 16&nbsp;mm black and white film telerecordings were still being offered for sale by British broadcasters well into the 1970s.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

Telerecording was still being used internally at the [[BBC]] in the 1980s too, to preserve copies for posterity of programs that were not necessarily of the highest importance, but which nonetheless their producers wanted to be preserved. If there were no videotape machines available on a given day, then a telerecording would be made. There is evidence to suggest that the children's magazine program ''[[Blue Peter]]'' was occasionally telerecorded as late as 1985. After this point, however, cheap domestic videotape formats such as [[VHS]] could more easily be used to keep a backup reference copy of a program.

Another occasional use of telerecording into the late 1980s was by documentary makers working in 16&nbsp;mm film who wished to include a videotape-sourced excerpt in their work, although such use was again rare.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

In other territories, film telerecordings stopped being produced after the introduction of videotape. In Czechoslovakia, the first videotape recorders (Machtronics MVR-15) were introduced in 1966 but soon were replaced by the Ampex 2" Quadruplex in 1967. Most of the programs, like TV dramas, were recorded on video, but only a few programs continued to be telerecorded onto 16&nbsp;mm film. The last known telerecording was produced in 1971 and soon after, all programs were recorded on video only.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}