Vision USA: Early CD/Laser Disc Technology
Panning MS electronics bay, stop at RCA laboratory technician working in adjacent room. MS/CUs white male lab technician cutting visual & audio information from feature film onto a copper-coated aluminum cylinder disc (early laserdisc / DVD technology). MS African-American male lab tech cutting a metal picture master from the original mold, pulling copy from mold. MCU/CUs stamping machine pressing laser discs (high speed reproduction); retail for a 2 hour film is $12 (in 1970 dollars). Panning MS inside quality control room, tech watching several discs in playback mode on bay of color monitors. MS/CUs African-American female tech working with diamond-tipped stylus; ECU stylus. CU RCA SelectraVision disc being loaded into disc player.