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
It’s funny how just the grainy, washed-out look of videotape can conjure so much melancholy.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2025
But Chadwick doubts researchers will be fortunate enough to videotape Axial Seamount’s eruption.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025
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
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
Two dozen works are on view, including sculptures, installations, videotapes, drawings and prints, plus the artist’s book “LAAir,” featuring 10 full-page color photographs said to show the city’s famous smog.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 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 Bureau had kept surveillance videotapes of comings and goings into the Soviet embassy, filmed from a secret location across the street.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
During a videotaped electroenchephalogram to test Linton for possible epileptic episodes, Linton also jerked and twitched on six different occasions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
He was spending much more time organising religious activities in the Muslim community, which he often videotaped.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
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
Over the course of his career, Schoenfeld has videotaped countless students as they worked on math problems.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
She was particularly concerned when her favorite show, “Armchair Expert,” started videotaping interviews.
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
In a statement, a Walmart spokesperson said the company had taken additional measures related to guns and ammunition, including ending sales of handguns and military-style rifles and videotaping the point of sale for firearms.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 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
“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
