I know of the zoopraxiscope, which displayed a looping motion picture in 1879. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoopraxiscope https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zo

I know of the zoopraxiscope, which displayed a looping motion picture in 1879. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoopraxiscope https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoopraxiscope That predates any video transmission I'm aware of by a significant margin. Looks like the preferred technology for station logos and test patterns since the 50s was the monoscope, a specialized device to generate a single image. The Indian Head logo, used in the 1970s, was one example. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoscope https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoscope Victim of nerd-sniping - some early TV camera/broadcast systems in the 1930s, especially in Europe, first recorded to film, which was then immediately scanned for broadcast. This could be used outdoors where there was not enough light for the TV scanning directly. "Intermediate film systems" http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_film_system http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_film_system Anyway, broadcasting from previously recorded film or other images has been around since the beginnings of TV broadcasts, even though recording the transmitted signal took until the 1940s (kinescopes - a film camera recording a TV screen).