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
“So just like that, the proverbial genie is out of the bottle and it’s on videotape that I’m going to UCLA,” Easley would recall many years later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2025
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
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 I think he was right. Just because you made a good videotape doesn’t make you a good person.”
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
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
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
He’s sitting down with his computer and painstakingly analyzing videotapes, second by second.
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
Allan initially appeared willing to engage, but grew irate when he realized he was being videotaped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 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 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
Over the course of his career, Schoenfeld has videotaped countless students as they worked on math problems.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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
“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
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
