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First, the machines that studios used were huge and heavy, and you couldn't walk into a store and buy one. A home-user who was really determined could probably get one, but at the expense of a couple of thousand 1970 dollars, I'm sure. Then, you couldn't just walk into a store and buy the tapes. You'd have to order them through a supplier, which meant sending a letter or order blank, along with a check, through the mail, and waiting several weeks. Ordering several at a time would cut down shipping costs, and save you having to wait again when you needed another one, but the tapes, which may not even have been cassettes at this point, but reels, would probably be expensive too. The expense was one reason that the technology was not offered comercially. There was another reason the machines were not comercially available, though. Cable television was not available everywhere, which meant that reception for a lot of people was dicey. People would not spend a lot of money for a VCR and tapes, if a rainstorm might wipe out reception the night they wanted to tape something. So our theoretical video hog, with the expensive home technology, lives where cable is available. But that doesn't mean the machine is compatible with the cable coming from his wall. So we have someone who knows a little bit about splicing connections, and has access to electronics equipment, which wasn't a section in a department store at the time. And, our theoretical vid-hog has to live in an area where he can pick up a broadcast of Suncoast Digest, the show Chubbock offed herself on. Then, he has to keep the tape, not lose it, spill coffee on it, or lend it to someone who doesn't return it, all the way from 1974 until 2005 (when YouTube went online), and then, if the tape hasn't deteriorated, transfer it to a medium (if he hasn't already done so) that can be uploaded, and choose to upload it. That's a pretty unlikely convergence of events. More likely is that some techie at the Florida studio stole a copy of the footage for himself. But he knows enough not to share it with the general public until all injunctions and copyrights have expired. Then, he will not upload it to YouTube. He will sell it to someone for a lot of money. So you may see it yet. A better question is why do you want to? I'm with Annabohly. I love fake gore as much as anyone. But I'll pass on the real stuff. I take that back-- surgery and dissections can be interesting, if someone is explaining what it happening. Real war footage, real drive-by shootings, not so much. I don't even like to see the picture of Kim Phuc, the naked, Vietnamese girl running away from the bombing with Napalm sticking to her, and that isn't even bloody. |
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But Bud Dwyer happened in the late 1980's when most homes had a VCR. In 1974, the average family had nothing to watch recorded events on, unless you had slides made of photos or reel to reel video, as at the movies. Thinking the sheriff or her family would want something like that seems odd to me. It is trying to make something fit into the 21st century idea of normal that was not even an idea to most people at the time.
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In September of 2012, a car chase ended with a suicide that aired live on Fox News, and you can easily find the clip all over the Internet. I'm not sure if it would be tasteless to post a link, but I can if you want.
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For the person asking about the incident itself it was the basis for the 1976 movie Network. The E! Channel made a documentary and that documentary is up on Vimeo if you want to watch that - obviously no death footage. https://vimeo.com/45732760 |
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I also can't believe stations showed the actual footage. People can be cruel. |
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I don't know how old this ad is but I stumbled on it and thought it would be a good addition to this thread. It's an ad for what looks like old TV recording equipment.
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One of the pre VHS/Beta formats was interesting as IIRC: 1) The cassettes were square in shape, with the supply and take up reels stacked on top of each other 2) The recorder would record only every 3rd frame of video (out of roughly 30 pr. second; the rate is actualy 29.97 for NTSC), and playback that same frame 3 times consecutively , giving you 10fps which I imagine looked horrible in fast action scenes 3) There were special red cassettes which were used for movie rentals that could not be rewound except with a special rewinder at the rental outlet. |
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We got a call that confirms the tape's existence. While reporting the original story we had reached out to Mollie Nelson, the widow of the owner of Chubbuck's news station, but never heard back from her. She [recently] called us back to explain that she has the video — her late husband Robert Nelson had kept a copy of the tape all these years, though Mollie says he never told her why.
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In a way, I'm kind of glad it exists, as it means she will never be forgotten (though with a suicide like that, it's rather hard to forget her) and will never be alone (a very common feeling amongst those considering suicide), but in a way...I wish they would destroy it because it IS a very personal last act and I think THAT should be forgotten. |
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It'll be from the 1960s. It's for a quadruplex analog videotape recording device used by television stations to produce their programming, it's not a home recording device.
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Was this incident the inspiration for the movie "Network"?
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of equipment by the general public at the time, plus both VHS and Beta came out within the next few years. |
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