videotape

A contestant seeking romance would select a match from among three videotaped contestants, go on a date, and then describe the experience in front of a live audience.

As the group of young people who videotaped the fabricated fire continued to watch the building that night they began to deduce that the fire was perhaps not real.

Sometimes, it continued, he would videotape the encounters, and always gave the boys money.

“A lot of times they’ll be secretly videotaping you or recording you.”

Here, we’re in a world of phone booths, pagers and bulky computers no one knows how to work, of Walkmans and videotape, which both simplifies and complicates the action.