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Guy Taylor, Jr.
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Galveston, Texas, U.S.A.
Registered: Mar 2007

posted March 07, 2018 05:54 PM

This morning on Facebook I saw a post of a home movie footage from 1940 of cadets from Texas A&M University. The poster refers to it as old "video" when it is obvious to a layman that it is film. It is hard for me to accept video and film as being the same thing.

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Graham Ritchie
Film God

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From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006

posted March 07, 2018 07:03 PM

Its not Guy [Smile]

You dont have to look far to see it either. On this very forum at the moment, they refer to a certain convention as being FILMED, when in actual fact it was shot on VIDEO [Big Grin]

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Prehaps it sounds better [Roll Eyes]

but it aint FILM [Big Grin]

..not in my book anyway [Wink]

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Allan Broadfield
Master Film Handler

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From: Bromley, Kent
Registered: Nov 2010

posted March 09, 2018 03:22 AM

Similarly, if people record something on the tv they still often say that they've taped it, whereas in most cases they've recorded onto a hard drive of some sort.

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Robert Crewdson
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: UK
Registered: Jun 2013

posted March 09, 2018 03:44 AM

Companies used to advertise in the cine mags, like 'Movie Maker', and say 'Films for Sale', only to find they were selling VHS. That always annoyed me, as they appeared alongside the traditional film distributors. I've frequently seen old Standard 8 cameras being offered on Ebay as Video cameras.

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Allan Broadfield
Master Film Handler

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From: Bromley, Kent
Registered: Nov 2010

posted March 09, 2018 04:08 AM

Also on ebay and utube I've seen it suggested that a cine projector on offer is a tape machine!

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Dave Groves
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Southend on Sea, Essex, UK
Registered: Feb 2015

posted March 09, 2018 05:20 AM

Somehow, we've never sorted this out and doubt we ever will.

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