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
Any of today’s approaches could easily fail, just as Betamax lost out to VHS in the videotape format war decades ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
He sent in a videotape and was quickly cast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024
One day, when I was a kid, I found a videotape of The Midnight Special TV show from 1973 at the bottom of my mother’s underwear drawer.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
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
These videotapes consisted of family events that held personal meaning, and historical events and moments.
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
The answer is that when our unconscious engages in thin-slicing, what we are doing is an automated, accelerated unconscious version of what Gottman does with his videotapes and equations.
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
Two years later, I had my first videotaped film audition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Jurors heard from former OpenAI board members and executives - some in person, others via videotaped sworn depositions - detailing first-hand experiences of Altman allegedly failing to be forthright.
From BBC ● May 15, 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
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
“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
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
