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
Here, Tuason cleverly lifts a conceit from “The Ring,” where a cursed videotape gave the viewer seven days to live after popping it into the VCR.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026
The judges ruled that “compelling and coherent evidence,” including a videotape in which Abd-Al-Rahman says he is Ali Kushayb, showed that he was the militia leader in question.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
In her first few viewings of the videotape, Marcia Clark had the gnawing sense that he was lying.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
Neither wanted to be the one to tell Abbey that her videotape was useless.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
After production stopped following the 1985 season, the show lived on in syndication, alongside a series of books and videotapes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 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
One of Braden’s digitized videotapes is of the tennis great Andre Agassi hitting a forehand.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
After both planes landed in the United Kingdom, Trump was videotaped coming down the steps from the larger jet, before making his way to the new retrofitted Air Force One.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Detectives then read him his Miranda rights, and he made a second videotaped confession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 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
Under the First Amendment, anyone in the U.S. has the right to engage in peaceful protest, which can include yelling, using profane language, videotaping officers and following them in a car, legal experts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 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
“They were videotaping us and so several of us were videotaping them,” said an attendee, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2023
The Saudi fan noise mushroomed again, and anyone videotaping them from close by might have felt some nonalcoholic beer drizzle down onto the cheeks.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2022
A camera goes down with you, though, videotaping your simulated death, so you can take it home and relive those 8.5 seconds in the comfort of your living room.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
