A BOLT OF LIGHTNING (1951)

Studio One
A Bolt of Lightning
Episode aired Nov 12, 1951
1h
S4 E9
Charlton Heston in Studio One (1948)
The story of James Otis, a Boston attorney and American patriot who contested the right of British troops to search colonists' homes during the American Revolutionary War.
Director: Paul Nickell
Writers: Fletcher Markle, Irve Tunick
Stars, Charlton Heston, Romney Brent, Rita Grapel

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THIS EPISODE OF STUDIO ONE WAS PRODUCED IN KINESCOPE

Kinescope /ˈkɪnɨskoʊp/, shortened to kine /ˈkɪniː/, also known as telerecording in Britain, is a recording of a television program made by filming the picture from a video monitor.
Typically, the term can refer to the process itself, the equipment used for the procedure (a 16 mm or 35 mm movie camera mounted in front of a video monitor, and synchronized to the monitor's scanning rate), or a film made using the process. Kinescopes were the only practical way to preserve live television broadcasts prior to the introduction of videotape in 1956. A small number of theatrically released feature films have also been produced as kinescopes.