Videotape: Hardware, History, and Applications
Carole O. Bell, Patricia Mastick · IUScholarWorks (Indiana University) · 1975
ao reeearch and communicative t o o l r .I n 1967, Ralph Rinzler's film work was shown a t t h e Amcrican Folklore Society meetings.Subsequently, films by Bess Lomax Hawes, W i l l i a m F e r r i s and Carl Fleiechhauer have demonstrated the a p p l i c a b i l i t y and importance of v i s u a l communication t o the study of folklore.I n general, however, folklorists have been r e l u c t a n t t o adopt t h i s form of communication.They admire t h e research footage o r fiaished f i l m i c products of t h e i r colleagues, but ignore t h e implications of such work f o r future remearch i n t o various aspects of t r a d i t i o n a l humur behavior, Videotape, a r e l a t i v e l y new v i s u a l medium, ha^ contributed t o an increaeine senee of urgency among visually-oriented s o c i a l s c i e n t i s t s .Technical improvements