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
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
It’s funny how just the grainy, washed-out look of videotape can conjure so much melancholy.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 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
But there is an instructional set of videotapes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 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
In fact, fifty years to life was the actual sentence given to Leandro Andrade for stealing videotapes, a sentence upheld by the Supreme Court.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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
Detectives then read him his Miranda rights, and he made a second videotaped confession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Freeman declined to discuss the claim beyond her videotaped statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 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
At least three of her so-called friends had even videotaped the show, and one of them stopped by after dinner to drop off the cassette.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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
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
The Saudi fan noise mushroomed again, and anyone videotaping them from close by might have felt some nonalcoholic beer drizzle down onto the cheeks.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2022
“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
