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
He sent in a videotape and was quickly cast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024
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
But if you had taken that videotape and slowed it down, until you were looking at our interaction in slices of a fraction of a second, you would have seen something quite different.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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
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
On his first trip to the basement, Gogol sees a table on which other tenants have left things up for grabs: books, videotapes, a white casserole with a clear glass lid.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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
Freeman declined to discuss the claim beyond her videotaped statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 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 finally videotaped about fifteen minutes of him sleeping, which I thought would settle the issue.
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
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
Partners has a strict policy against videotaping “because it could reveal proprietary processes,” the lawsuit said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 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
