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
“Adriana was afraid that, since there was nothing in the contract about videotape back when she did the voice and ‘Snow White’ was about to come out on videotape,” recalled Woodman.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 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
My students had been admitted because they could admirably paint or sculpt or videotape their bodies in exhausting detail, and wasn't that enough?
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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 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
Twiggs' videotaped interview with prosecutors was played in July during the hearing.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 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
“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
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
“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
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
