videotape
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In the early 80s, Grampian became the first UK regional TV company to gather the day's news footage on videotape - ending the need to spend hours developing and processing film.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Ampex invented the first videotape recorder for professional use in 1956, a $50,000 machine that CBS used to tape and broadcast reruns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
"They were supported by hundreds of hours of videotape, evidence, eyewitness testimony, they're indisputable."
From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2025
He sent in a videotape and was quickly cast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024
Neither wanted to be the one to tell Abbey that her videotape was useless.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
In 1987, Mr. Birney’s Conor is a happy nerd, comfortably living alone in a small Baltimore house with a shelf of videotapes and other amusements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
A collection of videotapes that was yet to be moved to an archive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025
We spent hours on the phone, and he shared old videotapes and other materials.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
He resigned just as he was starting a third term and fled the country in disgrace after leaked videotapes showed his spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, bribing lawmakers.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
In 1999, he was twenty-two and working as a peddler in lower Manhattan, selling videotapes and socks and gloves from the sidewalk along Fourteenth Street.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
Detectives then read him his Miranda rights, and he made a second videotaped confession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Allan initially appeared willing to engage, but grew irate when he realized he was being videotaped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
In one videotaped speech during a high school student government campaign, he complains of being told to pick up his trash, saying that should be the work of paid janitors.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026
“I refuse to have us videotaped throwing someone to the ground while they have a child in their hands,” one ICE agent told a police officer at the scene.
From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026
A film crew videotaped Reggie’s entrance into jail on May 8.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
Terry said they started videotaping “Let’s Get Haunted” about a year ago solely to produce short clips to promote the show on TikTok and other platforms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
I also remember videotaping one medic’s baby daughter before we returned to deploy with the unit into Iraq.
From Salon ● May 27, 2024
Partners has a strict policy against videotaping “because it could reveal proprietary processes,” the lawsuit said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
Lipman-Stern first met Pespas while working at a telemarketing firm as a teenager in the early 2000s, videotaping the wild goings-on in the office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2023
I never thought about writing poetry before, but Mr. Ward said he’s going to start videotaping our Friday sessions.
From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes
