As was the usual method of BBC television drama production at the time, the play was produced in a multi-camera electronic studio on video cameras, although it was recorded as a 35 mm film telerecording rather than on videotape.
The video was directed by Mellencamp and Faye Cummings, was filmed using a kinescope camera, featured an African American-vocal group and a Caucasian-instrumental group with the two groups playing together at the end of the video.
At this time, however, he was also experimenting with an improved cathode ray receiving tube, filing a patent application for this in November 1929, and introducing the new receiver that he named "Kinescope", reading a paper two days later at a convention of the Institute of Radio Engineers.