De onde vem o nome Kino?

O Site da MGM indica que Eli estava se referindo a o termo Kino-Pravda (literalmente em russo " movie-truth ")

The Kino, named as such by Eli in reference to Russia’s Kino-Pravda in the 1920s, is an unmanned remote exploratory device believed to have been used by the Ancients in a similar way the SGC use MALPS.

Há uma referência um pouco maior no script original

e na romancização

Scott peered at it and saw a bobbing first-person view of a corridor; the image had to be coming from the lens he’d seen on the front of the sphere. It’s a camera.

Flying camera, Eli corrected. I was gonna call it a Kino, you know, after the Russian word for....

Kino é a palavra russa para "cinema" e "filme [s]". Eu pensei que era apenas um punt genérico na cultura russa no início, mas depois eu pesquisei o que parece ser o página "oficial" para Stargate , e parece que Eli nomeou essas sondas depois do reportagem de 1920 " Kino-Pravda " :

The Kino, named as such by Eli in reference to Russia’s Kino-Pravda in the 1920s, is an unmanned remote exploratory device believed to have been used by the Ancients in a similar way the SGC use MALPS.