All I remember is that the advice was to 'stand well back'
(Helical scanning, of course, slowed the recording speed and rednered the technology viable.)
Brian Winston
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From: The History of the BBC on behalf of Darrell Newton
Sent: Tue 02/04/2013 6:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [BBC-HISTORY] "VERA"
Greetings, everyone,
Other than the BBC WAC, does anyone know of a resource for information on VERA?
VERA is described as an "early video tape machine developed by the BBC starting in 1952. VERA - an acronym for Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus - used half inch magnetic tape on 20½ inch reels, with a tape speed of 200 inches a second. This allowed a maximum of fifteen minutes recording time."
VERA is featured in an interview with Peter Axon in 1952. Therefore, I'd appreciate any information on VERA or the Axon interview.
Darrell M. Newton, Ph.D.
Chair and Associate Professor
The Department of Communication Arts
Salisbury University
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http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~dmnewton/
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From: Hugh Chignell [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 6:46 AM
To: 'The History of the BBC'
Subject: [BBC-HISTORY] THE IBA/ITA ARCHIVE AT BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY
Apologies for Cross posting.
The archive of the ITA and the IBA from 1955-1990 is now available at Bournemouth University following its transfer in October 2008.
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/library/resources/special_collections.html
The Independent Broadcasting Authority/ Independent Television Authority/Cable Authority Archive (the 'IBA Archive') was transferred from Ofcom to Bournemouth University in October 2008. The archive, comprising of over 1,000 boxes of documents, contains the internal papers of the regulator of commercial television (1955-1990) and radio (1973 - 1990) as well as the Cable Authority. These papers include internal memos, minutes of meetings, correspondence between the regulator and the public as well as business documents (applications to run local stations), 'authority papers' (over 6,000), policy files (1,500) and programme files (over 2,000 for individual programmes).
The IBA archive was opened for use by researchers in April 2009 and now offers one of the most important and accessible resources for broadcasting historians anywhere in the UK. To assist researchers, likely to be academics, journalists, writers and postgraduate research students, a searchable online spreadsheet can be consulted before making a visit to the Sir Michael Cobham library at Bournemouth University where the archive reading room is located.
Best, Hugh
Dr Hugh Chignell
Associate Professor of Broadcasting History,
Bournemouth Media School
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