Word: tapings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stands in 23 Southern towns. They traveled like gypsies in a borrowed station wagon and a rented trailer crammed with hand-me-down costumes from Balanchine and discarded scenery from the Metropolitan Opera. They danced in movie theaters, veterans' halls and gymnasiums; music was provided by a borrowed tape recorder or one of the dancers who dashed to a piano between his numbers. To ensure their footing, they often had to sprinkle a tacky coating of Coca-Cola on freshly waxed stages, many of which were so cramped that when it came time for a lift, the ballerinas would...
Lilliputian Variant. Now, in the newest twist in tapes, a variant on the cartridge has come along that is even more convenient and Lilliputian than the original. Called a cassette, it encases a tape and two tiny reels within a plastic box scarcely bigger than a pack of cigarettes. It snaps into a player as handily as the cartridge does, but it must be removed and turned over at the midpoint of its playing time, which averages 40 minutes. Since it moves even more slowly than the cartridge, it sacrifices still more sound quality. But it boasts two big advantages...
Sights & Sounds. The tape field is already crowded and confusing, and the technology-for cartridges as well as cassettes-is progressing rapidly and unpredictably. Some segments of the U.S. record industry, led by Columbia, Capitol and especially RCA Victor, are still betting heavily on cartridges, partly because they fear that the cassettes' potential as a home recording device would tend to undercut disk sales. On the other hand, many industry sources privately agree with the prediction of Rein Narma, consumer-products manager for Ampex, which markets all three types of tape. "We believe very strongly," says Narma, "that...
Even if cassettes do not evenutally triumph in this field, Philips Executive Anton van den Brink points to another major role for them that may be no more than five years away: the video tape cassette, which would be hooked into television sets to provide an almost unlimited range of sights simultaneously with sounds...
...rolling grey sky. Then abruptly to a bloodless flower child running running running along Graduate-white walls, down the empty spaces of a railroad yard, into some urban junkland moor, all this under a categorically blue sky and the electronic fallout of Streetchoir music tortured backwards through a tape-recorder. A conversation is heard. The flower child finds a blackjacket friend reading Bronze Beauties Revue on the front seat of a broken-down auto. They talk in silence. Close the scene with a shot of the flower child sikpping stones. Near him a broken-down van sunk in backwater...