Scanning at high resolutions, generally from 2,000 to 4,000 lines, the film recorder typically works by recreating the image on a built-in CRT that shines through a color wheel onto the film.

After all, recording moving images on film had been done since the late 19th century. Surely this is how it continued to be done until the invention of CCD image sensors in the 1980s? Nope.

The Super 8 camera, while a groundbreaking video recorder in its time, is borderline unusable now. Even if you can get film for it (and ... stream live video to a computer, or it can record ...