Recording video in the 1950s

[ppppenguin]

Thanks for all the information. I've seen the photos of VERA before but not the document.

From that excellent interview with James Redmond, quoted by Mike, where Redmond had been to the USA and seen quadruplex in action  (I've corrected some of the OCR errors):

I got back I reported to Engineering direction meeting what I had seen and
recommended that we abandoned. VERA and. I abandoned all work on VERA and. buy
these wonderful machines, and there was a very long silence, everyone looking
at the Head of Research ]department, H.L. Kirk, and Kirk looked glum but didn'
say anything for a while and then eventually just said "I agree with Redmond'