Sony
Portable half-inch reel-to-reel video recording system introduced by Sony in 1967. The two-piece kit weighed about 25 pounds and recorded up to 30 minutes of black-and-white video. It was the first system that allowed a single person to shoot video outside a studio, and it became a foundational tool for video art, guerrilla television, and activist documentary.
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