Recording video in the 1950s

[Kalee20]

I can remember the PXL2000 being demonstrated on Tomorrow's World in the late 1980s, but seemed to be only good for a toy or a niche tool for amateur film makers.

It was a toy and intended as a toy.

Maybe a toy - but to have achieved video recording onto a compact cassette is an astonishing feat nevertheless!

That, and Baird's Phonovision, must surely rank among stretching technology to the extreme, and in Baird's case especially, even though they were dead ends, deserve a round of applause.