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
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
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
At last, after all the other employees have sped off in the company’s eye-catching green-and-yellow cars, I am led into a tiny closet-sized room off the inner office to learn my trade via videotape.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
As I watched Sunday’s fights, I kept asking myself: how did we go from stolen VHS videotapes in the 1990s to all this?
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
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
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
Twenty-five witnesses were called, sixty exhibits were displayed, store security videotapes were shown, and photos were employed by both sides.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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
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
News reporters came and videotaped Russ signing the agreement, accepting a scholarship.
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
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
Most of his undergraduate students in his course on race and police violence have turned the strike into research projects by videotaping interviews with picketing workers, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2022
He went 5-17 the rest of the way in Denver, with the last straw appearing to be a Spygate-like videotaping scandal that earned McDaniels and the team separate fines from the league.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022
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
