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In a speech to the Institution of Electrical Engineers, the BBC Director-General, Sir Charles Curran, put forward the idea of video replacing film as the preferred production medium.

At the moment film has all the advantages of flexibility of editing. It is more expensive than electronic methods in the studios but it is incomparably more mobile outside. It is also easier to duplicate and more universal as a medium from which to originate transmissions in a world where systems differ…

But the day is clearly coming when it will be possible to take an electronically based picture with as much flexibility as can now be done with a film unit.

What will happen then to all the union expectations about the handling of picture making gear in a mobile setting, I don’t know. But it is impossible to believe that the 1980s will not see the wholesale development of practical systems of electronic recording in the field, which could replace the film camera.

If anybody doubted Curran’s prediction that such a change in professional production technology was less than a decade away, they only needed to look at two U.S. companies so dominant that they had become icons.