Talk:Thomas & Friends: The Sad Story of Henry (1953 BBC)/@comment-31346067-20140810174026/@comment-107.195.41.51-20141017175859

The BBC didn't have videotaping facilities in 1953. They were developing a system from 1952 but it wasn't finished until 1958. Telerecording was stil in an experimental stage (they abandonded the telerecording of The Quatermass Experiment because the quality wasn't good enough) and film was expensive and children's programmes would have been very low in the pecking order. TV was considered as ephemeral as theatre.