8mm Forum: Terminology in the 21st Century

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Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on 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.

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on 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]

...

Prehaps it sounds better [Roll Eyes]

but it aint FILM [Big Grin]

..not in my book anyway [Wink]

Posted by Allan Broadfield (Member # 2298) on 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.

Posted by Robert Crewdson (Member # 3790) on 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.

Posted by Allan Broadfield (Member # 2298) on 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!

Posted by Dave Groves (Member # 4685) on March 09, 2018, 05:20 AM:

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

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