Philips VCR tapes on Ebay

[Gary C]

I also remember we had to have 'lab technicians' to operate them!!

[Laurence Piper]

That's just an educational convention though - the last time I stepped into such a place (around late '80s / early '90s) they were still operating in that way. They may still be for all I know! Not really to do with the complexity of the equipment though

[Gareth R]

Guest-Gary said:

I certainly remember an open reel three quarter inch video recorder (Sony??) being used at school in about 1969

My secondary school still had a Sony CV-2000 that saw occasional classroom use in 1983! If only I'd had an anorak's interest in it back then, I might have found out if they'd kept any recordings from the 60s...

[William Martin]

probably not, they normaly kept reusing the tapes up to the 80s, but there is a chance of some plays from the 60s surviving. perhaps one of the teachers made some recordings for their own use.

[Andrew Doherty]

Although I may have mentioned it before, the BBC2 Thirty Minute Theatre production 'The Flip Side', in which Bob Monkhouse starred as a D.J., was recorded on a Technical College reel-to-reel video machine.

The programme may have been broadcast live (late 1966 or early 1967) and B.M., therefore, was not able to record it. However, sometime after, he overheard some students talking about the production and managed to obtain the videotape.

This production, I am hoping, will be shown at some stage, if not at the 'Missing Believed Wiped' event.


Yours

[RWels]

That's amazing! But unfortunately very much a matter of luck!