1/2" open reel videotape recorder (Portapak)

1/2
1/2" open reel videotape recorder (Portapak).

Still from the Video History Project website, and used in Playback: Preserving Analog Video, a DVD produced by BAVC (2003).

This skip-field, 1/2" open reel videotape recorder (Portapak) was introduced by Sony in 1965, and was the first portable system used by the Center and many other US media artists and groups by the late 1960s.

Courtesy of the Experimental Television Center.