Word: video
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While reading your "The Viability of Video" [Oct. 20], I was reminded of the following story: A professor, finding that his time was too valuable to merely lecture, would prepare a full week's lectures over the weekend and tape them. Each day of the week he would have an assistant set the recorder up in the classroom. The professor, of course, was delighted at the system which afforded him much free time. After his taped lectures had been playing for several months, he decided to visit one of his classes himself. As he opened the door...
Known in the trade as "the Pope of Video," Sullivan keeps a sharp lookout for anything that might be suggestive. He recently disapproved a Playtex bra commercial because "we don't want to show a girl in a filmy thing on a day when everyone's been to church and all." After he signed Elvis Presley for a record $50,000 for three appearances, Sullivan would not allow the camera to show the singer's gyrating pelvis. "He may be a purist," says Comic Jack...
...call is a transferable contract giving the purchaser the right to buy stock (almost always in 100-share lots) at a specified price (generally the market price on the purchase date) at any time during a specified period ranging from 30 days to a year. Last week, when National Video common was selling for $31.50 per share, an investor could have bought a call at $450 expiring next April 4. Provided that the stock rises as much as $5 a share by that date, the investor will be able to exercise his call at a profit. If Video climbs...
...Gorillas (ABC), a World War II drama about a U.S. platoon of temporarily paroled cons working behind German lines. For those who have not seen Mission: Impossible on TV or The Professionals and The Dirty Dozen in the movies, Garrison's Filthy Foursome might have some appeal; the video Nazis, however, are shown to be so inept that it is a wonder the war lasted so long...
...insert cartridges of the film in a breadbox-size playback unit, which would send audio-visual signals into the antenna terminals of the TV set. A seven-inch cartridge, resembling a discus, could play up to 30 minutes in color, an hour in black and white. Now called Electronic Video Recording (EVR), the system may reach the U.S. market...