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Apple QuickTime movie  |  1994-05-20  |  4.5 MB  |  320x240  |  15fps  |  37 seconds  |  [MooV/TVOD]
Transcription: Everything you see on the max screen is made up of a series of dots called pixels, short for picture elements. On a color monitor, each pixel is made up of three smaller dots in each of the three primary colors, red, green and blue. The back of the monitor screen is coated with colored phosphors arranged in patterns of red, green and blue. At the rear of the video tube are three electron guns, one for each color. Each gun shoots a stream of electrons through the tube's neck to the phosphor-coated screen. The phosphor glows briefly, creating the colored dots that make up each pixel.