Event

Ampex announce quadruplex videotape recording on 2" tape at NARTB in Chicago

VERA makes her first live transmission on Panorama
BBC gets its first VR1000 - 405 B&W

First videotape editor credit - Brian Jenkinson for 'Hamlet at Elsinore' shot and edited on 625 Low band - TX on 405

Start of BBC 2
RCA TR22s using Hi-Band recording system for 625 B&W
Match of the Day begins. Cut edit for TX at 19:30 on Saturdays
Olympics open in Tokyo. Gerry H & Gerry McD - tapes flown back to UK.

First Engineers (editing) created
Early electronic editing - Editsure
VR2000s arrive - early heads have life measured in minutes rather than hours

World Cup in England (we won!)
BBCs 2" slomotion machine makes the air (just)
Editec electronic editor fitted to VR2000s - uses tones on cue track
Earliest Videodisc recorders - Machtronics - stop action not slow motion

Full Colour Service

Olympics from Mexico. Pictures by satellite.
HS100 Videodisc recorder demos seen
Later in the year HS100 installed at TC in what would eventually become VT17

VR3000 'portable' backpack recorder (2") seen at TC
Videodisc has its only outing - to Wimbledon
Transmission areas built

VR1200 record/edit pairs (VTs 5-8) installed - Senior Recording Engineers invented.
World Cup in Mexico - Stan Pow & Geoff Higgs in Mexico with VR3000 (first single camera shoot?)
Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh
Six Wives of Henry VIII - probably the last major series to be cut edited (Geoff Higgs & Howard Dell editors)

AVR1 arrives. 2" machine using computer transport technology. Capable of instant start - very exciting to cut edit on!

First EECO time code editing suite (VT15/16) built. Has vision mixer for three machine editing.
Roger Harvey edits War & Peace - Mick Goodenough plays in.
Munich Olympics. 4 VR2000s & 1VR3000 on site with studio in Munich - Geoff Higgs & VR3000 get shots of terrorists on Israeli Team balcony

Suite A and Edit Suite 2 commissioned using RCA TR70Cs and EECO

AVR2s arrive - 2" machines with conventional transports but digital timebase correctors
First Offlines arrive - Convergence ECS1B and U-Matic machines

Quantel 3000 - first DVE - used for Wimbledon Titles & Commonwealth Games Titles
Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta - cut editing on AVR2s in NTSC

VPR1s arrive - helical scan 1" - not very good
VPR2s arrive - helical scan 1" that worked - installed in VT5

VPR2 used in anger in Moscow for the Olympics in Secam. A machine ahead of its tape!

First Electra 1" suite in service - in-house edit system
Prince Charles Wedding videocassette produced overnight using 3 machine ECS103 suite in VT25 with Sony BVH1100s

Last cut edit. Sportsnight football match - Mike Moss is the AP

ADO (Ampex Digital Optics) - first 'friendly' DVE arrives. Used for "Little & Large"

Olympics in Los Angeles. VPR5 used for single camera work. Betacam seen in action

VPR6s arrive - helical scan 1"

World Cup in Mexico - only time standup editing done operationally on VPR6s
Commonwealth Games operation on site in Edinburgh
Suite G&H come into operation
Edit Managers invented

Winter Olympics in Calgary - using Beta SP
Summer Olympics in Seoul - first major operation using entirely Beta SP
Sony BVE900/9000 family chosen as main edit system for the 90s

Suite C refurbished for Promotions with Sony 9000, GVG200 mixer and Charisma DVE - effectively prototype for Stage V edit suites
Postproduction 'launched' - amalgamation of Film Editing & Sound Dubbing and Television Recording

Panasonic D3 ½" digital VTRs purchased by the BBC
Postproduction joins with Graphics to form PP&GD
Suite C converted to stereo and then D3
First transmission of Presentation trails. Stereo service begins
First Stage V edit suites & multipurpose areas in use for training

The move into Stage V
Winter Olympics in Albertville - first succesful operation in Stage V floor 2 only 6 weeks after move into the area
Summer Olympics in Barcelona - 30 D3s & 21 staff on site

Winter Olympics in Lillehammer - Digital Betacam
Non-linear editing arrives - Avid & Lightworks

Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia - 30 Staff on site

Last quad machine leaves TVC (see "End of an Era")