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Videotape Storage: How to Make Your Videotapes Last for Decades...or Centuries

Author
Jim Wheeler
Publication
American Cinematographer
Date
January 1983
Volume
64
Issue
1
ETC archive
ETC0947
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Jim Wheeler. Videotape Storage: How to Make Your Videotapes Last for Decades...or Centuries. American Cinematographer. vol. 64, no. 1. January 1983.

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