English: A flyins spot scanner, an early type of television camera used in mechanical scan television systems during the 1930s and its developer, Ulysis Sanabria. During the 1930s, before modern electronic-scan television broadcasting began after World War 2, hundreds of experimental stations broadcast television using this low resolution mechanical techniques. This example is designed to take "head shots" of performers talking or singing. Instead of a camera, the flying spot scanner projects an intense spot of arc light from the lens at center. The spot scans rapidly over the subject's face in a raster pattern. The light reflected from the subject's face is picked up by the eight phototubes in the dish reflectors around the periphery. The phototubes produce a signal which is a record of the brightness of the image where the spot strikes. This is the video signal which is broadcast to the receiver. Broadcasts during the 1930s had low resolution, typically a 60 line frame at 20 frames per second.