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unusual facts about video tape



CBS Laboratories

1972-1973: CMX 600 Non-Linear Video Tape Editing System (developed by CMX Systems, a CBS/Memorex company) utilizing a computer to aid the decision-making process, store the editing decisions and implement them in the final assembly of takes

Stahlmusik

One of the earliest and rarest Neubauten albums, Stahlmusik was recorded live-to-tape in a pillar of the Stadtautobahn Bridge in West Berlin on June 1, 1980, and was released on cassette in October via Blixa Bargeld's "Eisengrau" shop, where the earliest incarnations of the band would often rehearse.

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Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw

Despite advice from San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders and Watergate legend G. Gordon Liddy, Rickards loses track of both the money and the video-tape.

Emery Worldwide

On 8 July 1988, a defamation suit was filed after a package was opened in transit in Los Angeles that included a video tape containing cash allegedly for an NCAA basketball recruit (Chris Mills) for the University of Kentucky.

Lucy Ratcliffe

After seeing an advertisement after an episode of America's Next Top Model announcing a British version of the show, Lucy decided to send in a video tape and pictures of herself and got a callback for a live audition.

Riogate

The Clinton campaign team (including James Carville and George Stephanopoulos) released a video tape of a Brazilian newscast which showed Bush re-election campaign materials being printed in Brazil.

Strassner Editing Systems

Over 400 systems were sold up to the time, in 1995, that Mr. Strassner sold the company to a San Jose based company - Videomedia, Inc., makers of the "V-LAN" hardware he used to physically control video tape machines (VTRs), video and audio switchers and special effects devices.

The B-52's 1979–1989

The B-52's 1979–1989 is a video tape compilation of seven music videos by The B-52's for their albums The B-52's, Whammy!, Bouncing Off the Satellites and Cosmic Thing; as well as one music video from Fred Schneider's first solo album entitled Fred Schneider & the Shake Society.

The Movie from the Future

The set-up is you are watching an Unsolved Mysteries type program about a video tape found in a crater with a note reading "From Future." Most of the movie consists of the contents of the tape with various experts breaking in to offer their opinions on the validity of the tape or whether it is a hoax.

Video Privacy Protection Act

It was created to prevent what it refers to as "wrongful disclosure of video tape rental or sale records or similar audio visual materials, to cover items such as video games and the future DVD format." Congress passed the VPPA after Robert Bork's video rental history was published during his Supreme Court nomination.