A quad tape Cue and Control tracks Video track Audio track
A familiar sight to anyone peering through a Smith's splicer! This photograph from Bob Smith clearly shows the video tracks, control track, cue track (time code, I assume) and audio track. If you hover over various parts of the image you will find hotspots which will take you to a better enlargement.Quad was, of course, replaced by C format - 1" tape - which looked completely different. Click here for a photograph of a developed C format tape, once again thanks to Bob Smith.

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