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
Older videos from dashboard cameras that are still stored on magnetic videotape would also be expunged, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026
The secretly shared videotape was so satisfying that people literally died watching it, so frozen in their bliss that they forgot about their own human needs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Authentic videotape from that time and the shallow, kitschy music take you back to the time of the “Me Generation” and every low-brow cliché of the 70s through the Reagan years.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2024
The videotape of Bill and Sue’s discussion seems, at least at first, to be a random sample of a very ordinary kind of conversation that couples have all the time.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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
He said he had taught himself how to read English by looking at videotapes of people like Dave Chappelle and me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
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
The bookshelves, window sills, radiators, and all other flat surfaces are piled high with anthologies of plays, copies of scripts, and videotapes and sound tracks of Broadway productions.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
Detectives then read him his Miranda rights, and he made a second videotaped confession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Two years later, I had my first videotaped film audition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 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
She was particularly concerned when her favorite show, “Armchair Expert,” started videotaping interviews.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
“A lot of times they’ll be secretly videotaping you or recording you.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2024
I also remember videotaping one medic’s baby daughter before we returned to deploy with the unit into Iraq.
From Salon ● May 27, 2024
John Hacker, a Portland-area activist who began videotaping far-right rallies and identifying extremists on social media in 2016, said he is regularly targeted online by the far right with hateful comments.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
“Yeah, but my dad is videotaping it. And I can arrange it so I get to see the tape, and you don’t. Can’t I?”
From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky
